Bad temprament at the top can be very expensive for both the organization and shareholders. How much shareholders pay in terms of lost performance because of hot temperament of senior management would be indeed an interesting exercise - at least as interesting as Mckinsey's TCJ (total cost of jerks) if not more. But lemme anyways put down a few very logical damages that these top managers end up incurring on their companies:
- Hot tempramental leaders are less likely to create creative & high initiative teams.
- In fact they proactively end up killing initiative and promoting fear.
- Lot of company's time goes in discussing & managing trivia.
- Dressing up becomes important for everyone to avoid conflicts.
- Only a mad man would bring up bad news to these MDs.
In current organizational formations, when frontline staff and managers are often well educated and trained professionally, leadership teams would do well focussing more on providing guidance, future direction, knowledge sharing, employee welfare and promoting a culture of fearlessness, intrapreneurship, performance.
A few minutes of Yoga or meditations would be time well spent for top managers....well for shareholders - paying for Yoga would be cheaper.... :)
