Want to be a Boss?

Want to be a Boss?

We have all been there and embarrassed with the bad boss. During our working life, we meet managers some of whom we think are amazing and others we are not motivated and encouraged at all at any point in time in our working lives. We normally think that such managers can be a total failure since they do not motivate others and lead others.

As we grow older and become more experienced, we may start reflecting on being the boss ourselves and realizing the fact that it is not so easy to manage many different types of people and organizations in different stages of our working life. It is due to the simple reason that we are all different and different people need different management traits, as well as the organization, needs different management expertise in different segments of its administration. Maybe it’s unfilled that we’ve been trying to be a boss.

Perhaps we have been a boss for a long time before we begin to think what separates a good leader from a bad one?

It does not really matter when we think about this, but at the same time we should also remember the saying “Before you criticize someone else, walk a few kilometers in his shoes”. The person who said this may not be that stupid. Therefore, reflecting on yourself and how others recognize you are the beginning of any development process. What you have to keep in mind is just criticizing someone without thinking about yourself and the challenges others face is both unnecessary and stupid and hardly ever leads to something getting better or done better.

So, who really is a good boss? Can you attribute any “success factors” that all managers should have?

The question is often asked to us, both when we speak of managers and also under the leadership development programs we hold. It indicates that there is no single formula for the “best boss” theory, but a lot of different qualities and virtues. You must, among other things, identify the context in which the boss should be – i.e. how many people will the manager lead, what is the occupational category the boss leads, leadership of other managers, what does the organization look like, is the company in the management phase, growth or cuts etc? There are of course other aspects too that you must consider when you try to find the right candidates.