Bully Manager – Advantages

Bully Manager is the one with a poor people-task orientation, ie., very less of people orientation and more of task orientation.  They deliver results however it could be at the cost of team motivation.  Their means to the end would not justify the end results shown.  They bully, yell, throw their weight around, micro-manage, care less or do not care at all for their team members. They are temperamental.  They show consistent results not only in work but also in demotivating their team members. One common parameter that you can use to find out if you have a Bully Manager or not is to check the attrition levels in their team/s.

Gallup or any survey that you can think of would confirm that the immediate Boss / Manager is the key to employees’ engagement since the team members perceive their company only through their supervisors. People join good companies and leave Bad managers (Gallup)

So, it’s beyond any doubt that Bully Managers are not good for the Organization which are practiced in all people-focused Organizations.

In this write-up, I want to talk about the advantages of working with a Bully Managers.  Yes. You’ve read it right.  And this would be more from self-development perspective.

Non-comfort zone: when you work with a Bully Manager, you work from your Non-comfort zone.  Self-confidence and true learning begins where comfort zone ends. Everything that we want in our life lies outside our comfort zone.

Give your best:  You learn to give your best always. You are challenged to give the best of you. That’s when the best comes out of you. 

How to manage your Boss- Your success will be a disaster if you don’t know how to manage your boss.  You learn and sharpen your Boss Management skills. If you’ve learnt to manage a Bully Manager, you can manage any other Boss in your career.

Stress Management – You learn to manage someone’s ego, juggle and multi-task, give your best, work under pressure (kind of pressure-cooker environment) etc., what more can be more stressful. Your threshold and tolerance level is taken to the next level and you become good in managing your stress. You become stress-proof.

Work without external motivation: You’ve to get used to not hearing “Good job done” and to work without any external motivation. You need to drive yourself from within.  So you learn to take charge of yourself and nobody can demotivate you without your consent.

Learn the Don’ts.  I think knowing the don’ts are important too, if not more important than the Dos. You learn how not to manage your team when you become a Manager from your Bully Manager. Since you would’ve experienced what it means to work with a Bully Manager, you would never want to be one.

I am certainly not suggesting that the bully managers are good and one should tolerate and work them. They are not good leaders and healthy to any workplace..  However, once in your career, you should work with such a manager and have that experience more from learning and self-development perspective.

More than the good experiences, it’s the bad experience that teach us valuable lessons in our life.  If you look back in your career, you will realize and cherish the valuable lessons the bad experience has taught you. 

So every experience has got something to offer in terms of learning and

Bad Managers are not Bad and you need to thank them for making you a better executive / manager.

Have you ever worked with a bully Manager? Have you learnt any valuable lesson and what is the most valuable one?

Do share you experience. 

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