It’s easy for us to call out the bad bosses. It’s harder to look in the mirror and confront the bad boss staring back at you. In this episode, you'll discover how anyone can fall into the trap of becoming a bad boss—often without realizing it—as well as strategies managers and employees can use to make work more manageable.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

During the course of her career, top workplace strategist Mita Mallick has worked for a wide range of bad bosses:

The bad boss who fell asleep in meetings.

The bad boss who took credit for all her work.

The bad boss who once threw her designer shoe at Mita's colleague.

The bad boss who told her she was a rat and demanded loyalty.

The bad boss who told her she was overconfident and needed to stay in her lane.

The bad boss who gossiped about her to others and told her peers she didn’t really know what she was doing.

The bad boss who was so nice and so profoundly incompetent and as much as she wanted to, it was really hard to hate him.

In this episode, we'll explore a few of the many ways bosses can create an unhealthy workplace and disengagement, how any one of us could be susceptible to becoming one of those bad bosses for someone else, and how we can manage and mitigate against this.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST:

Mita Mallick is a WSJ and USA Today bestselling author, LinkedIn Top Voice, workplace strategist, speaker, and coach to start-up founders, executives, and public CEOs. A change maker with a track record of transforming culture and business, Mita gives innovative, culturally-resonant ideas a voice and serves customers and communities with purpose. Her highly anticipated second book, The Devil Emails at Midnight: What Good Leaders Can Learn from Bad Bosses, will be published on September 30, 2025 by Wiley.

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