WOCULT

Bad managers rarely believe they are bad. They believe they have high standards while their teams live inside the fear those standards create. In this piece, leadership consultant Jessica Kelly draws on seven years inside organisations to explain why poor people leadership is not one problem among many but the root of burnout, insecurity and turnover; why the most dangerous manager is often the one senior leadership most admires.

WOCULT's research places bad managers at the very top of the pressures wearing down the working professional, above burnout, insecurity and toxic culture. Yet most poor leaders don't believe they are poor; they believe they have high standards.