Long ago, a few jobs and a few bosses ago, I had a boss's boss's boss who was an idiot. I honestly don't think he meant to do poorly as a manager, however being a senior manager in charge of a couple hundred people means that you should have at least some semblance of managerial aptitude --- you, know, the ability to at least manage your way out of a cardboard box. He didn't. Said manager did virtually nothing right in the several years during which I worked in his organization. He left on his own after a somewhat failed attempt to figure out what was really wrong with his reign by way of an employee "How is management doing?" survey, from which he learned that HE was the problem --- but that is another story. I did, however, take away one single good thing from this guy, something that he preached but didn't do at all well for himself. He'd tell us manager-types (I was at the lowest rung of the managerial ladder at the time --- lucky me ...) that "Perception is reality".
Perception is reality.
I think I'll say that again:
Perception is reality.
