{"id":484,"date":"2015-07-14T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/?p=484"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:27:09","slug":"should-you-ever-work-for-a-bad-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Should You Ever Work For A Bad Boss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"social-shares \">\n<li>This is Not mine, It&#8217;s just another awesome Jack Welch column<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/p\/4\/005\/064\/21f\/1e16f9b.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-loading-tracked=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jackwelch.strayer.edu\/about\/jack-welch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">By Jack and Suzy Welch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What\u2019s better, to work for a bad boss at a good company or a good boss at a weak company?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We\u2019ve gotten this question several times while traveling around the world, and we have been amazed at how split audiences seem on the answer. Amazed, because to us this is an absolute no-brainer. If you have to pick between these options, by all means, work for the good company!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Here\u2019s our reasoning. If you are at a truly good company, its leaders will eventually find and dispatch the bad boss. That can take time\u2014months, or even a year or more. In that case, you might even be rewarded with a promotion for having delivered results during your ordeal. After all, everyone has been there at some point in his or her career, toiling for some turkey who\u2019s moody, mean, or just plain incompetent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But even if you\u2019re not promoted for your \u201chardship duty,\u201d you will still be better off for having endured a boss from hell. You will be able to stay where you are in the good company with a new and better superior or move sideways to a fresh opportunity. Remember: Any experience you get at a good company where you\u2019re working with smart people is worthwhile, and a stint at a company with a sterling reputation gives you an excellent career credential down the road, if you need it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now think about the other scenario. Without question, having a good boss is one of life\u2019s best experiences. Good bosses can make work fun, meaningful, and all thosewarm, fuzzy things. Good bosses can make work feel like a home away from home. They can make your team feel like a family. In some cases, they can even make you feel like you\u2019ve found a long lost friend or finally gotten \u201cparental\u201d approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But the good boss-weak company dynamic is a velvet coffin. All bosses eventually depart. They move up, out, or sideways. And someday your good boss will leave you, too. In fact, good bosses in weak companies are especially vulnerable to change because they have the extra stress of \u201cprotecting\u201d their people from the impact of the organization\u2019s larger problems. This burden can wear them out or make them political pariahs, or both. Either way, in time they go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In some ways, this question comes down to a choice between short- and long-term gains. In the short term, working for a bad boss, even in a good company, can be anightmare. But in the long term, when the bad boss is gone, at least you\u2019ll have the opportunity to move on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Working for a good boss in the short term can be thoroughly enjoyable even when the company is collapsing around you. Long-term, however, those happy vibes will come back to haunt you. When your boss makes a beeline for the exit, you\u2019ll be trapped. Getting a new job after you\u2019ve worked at a company with a mediocre or poor reputation is hard. It\u2019s almost as if you\u2019re tainted. So all you\u2019ll have is a second-rate credential and nice memories. Do your career a favor and get your memories elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jackwelch.strayer.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/p\/1\/005\/063\/222\/2959ed1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-loading-tracked=\"true\" \/><\/a>Jack Welch is Executive Chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jackwelch.strayer.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University<\/a>. Through its online <a href=\"http:\/\/jackwelch.strayer.edu\/executive-mba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MBA<\/a> program, the Jack Welch Management Institute provides students and organizations with the proven methodologies, immediately actionable practices, and respected credentials needed to win in business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this column originally appeared in BusinessWeek Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Not mine, It&#8217;s just another awesome Jack Welch column By Jack and Suzy Welch What\u2019s better, to work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beterit.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1e16f9b.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}