The Boss

It’s a common perception that many bosses are horrible. Once you allow someone to talk about their boss, they come up with different names and define their bosses by specific words. Most of the time it becomes a reality that bosses are bad due to various reasons, let’s not go in that details, but do you agree with this perception?

For me, the bosses are basically our teacher and well-wisher. Now this sounds horrible isn’t it? Well actually this is true. Don’t think that I am defending the bosses because I am not. I am trying to present the other phase of the coin.

In general practice all the bosses’ want results as per their expectation. They do have their bosses and they are also expecting the same from them. Since they are the bridge between client, you and their bosses, they want to make things right, on time and as per the expected output. They used to be under more pressure then you. At this point their nature of making pressure over you to get the right deliverable is natural and accepted. They don’t want their client to be disappointed because of the hard effort added by you, they do try to avoid re-work and at the same point they do defend you in front of the management.

Most of the bosses are actually like that only and hence they do keep on educating you, making you robust so that when you reach to their level, you can easily handle this much of pressure.

For the sake of argument, let’s consider that your boss is not good as per your perception. Think about what qualities are you looking for, in him/her? What’s expectation from your boss? In a nut shell what do you want your boss to be look like?

If you are done with your expectation list, now think, will the assigned task be complete as per the expected quality and timelines, once the boss will behave exactly the way you want him to behave?

Before you go to the conclusion, you need to understand that you are only seeing the bigger picture and may be just the limited part of the project, instead of a complete project, you might be interacting with limited team members instead of multiple teams and higher management or clients.

There is a chance that you are correct, however most of the time, you may not. Do you think that the Boss is privileged like you? Actually NO, the Bosses are not even allowed to be wrong. They have to be right and they have to make things right. That is why Boss are always the Boss.

Not agreed, think about your school teacher, think about your parents, think about your elders, think about leaders, who are they? In some or the other, they are somewhere behaving exactly the same way as your bosses are. They are ordering you, controlling you, making you learn, forcing to follow rule, making you to be on right track, they are actually behaving like a boss and so will you, once you wear these caps.

Be a Great Boss!!

Cheers!!