Jack Welch : Are You a Boss-Hater?

Joseph

By Jack and Suzy Welch


We realize there are days when it can feel as if everyone around you is inept. Companies, after all, are composed of people, and people screw up, reward mediocrity, play politics, and otherwise commit myriad organizational sins.

But the “everyone’s dumb but me” attitude is dangerous. Not only is it a career-killer, but it’s also simply not a realistic perspective on business. Too many companies perform well every day—returning billions in profits by inventing, making, selling, and distributing millions of products and services—for every manager out there to be a total nincompoop.

That’s why we suggest that if you have a gloomy view of the working world, take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself if you might just be a boss-hater.

Very few people would ever identify themselves as boss haters. They usually see themselves as noble victims, speaking truth to power. Forget that line. Boss-haters are a breed. It doesn’t matter where they work—big corporations, family companies, partnerships, nonprofits, newspapers, or government agencies. Boss-haters enter into any authority relationship with barely repressed cynicism and ingrained negativity toward “the system.” And even though their reasons may be varied, from upbringing to personality to political bent, boss-haters are unified in their inability to see the value in any person above them in a hierarchy.

The boss-haters in any organization tend to find each other, and once in numbers, they usually become quite outspoken. Boss-haters also tend to be on the high-IQ side. That’s unfortunate, really. Because instead of using their intelligence to improve the way work is done, boss-haters focus, laser-like, on all of the organization’s flaws and the sheer, incomprehensible idiocy of the higher-ups.

Of course, because of their intelligence, some boss-haters do get ahead—briefly. More often, the organization feels their vibe, and bosses respond in kind, with distancing or worse.

Now, maybe you’re not a boss-hater and your boss is just one of these. But if you find you have no shortage of contempt for those at the top, perhaps you should give yourself a test. Think of a boss you’ve encountered who didn’t have a problem. If you can’t, the problem may be something you can fix just by opening up your mind.

Joseph

我知道诸位都能看懂文章，做一个摘要来方便那些有速读习惯的人。

杰克·韦尔奇这篇文章讨论的要点是：不要因为立场失去判断力。他发现很多人在职场上容易产生一种类似的“除了我其他人都是笨蛋”的奇怪思路。这个想法更容易演化出的版本就是对于高层领导的一种简单屏蔽，他称之为“Boss-Hater”。即，你也许能够理解跟你同阶层的人的状态，但是会强烈质疑你老板的能力。而所有这些问题其实在于你是否思想更开放。

在我经历的公司中都曾经遇到过类似的人，而在国企时代我自己也曾经有很多类似的倾向。虽则有些人并不显著表现出这种特征，但是这种风气确实在很多企业中以一种亚文化状态存在着。所以我觉得这篇文章真正可贵之处在于它点出了问题，能够引起我们思考对策。

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