Surrounded By Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees: Interview with Thomas Erikson

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Thomas Erikson, bestselling author and behavioral expert, shares his insights and advice on how to deal with all the bad bosses and lazy employees in the workplace. In this interview with Modern Mentor, he describes a personality framework that can help us leverage the diversity of styles at work for better relationships and stronger outcomes. Pick up his book, Surrounded By Bad Bosses (and Lazy Employees); How to Stop Struggling, Start Succeeding, and Deal With Idiots at Work, to learn more about your own style at work, and the styles of those around you. Read the companion article on Quick and Dirty Tips. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter to get more tips to fuel your professional success. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/QDTModernMentor https://twitter.com/QDTModernMentor https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-mentor-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.
0:22.0	And today, we are going to talk about bad bosses and lazy employees with behavioral expert and bestselling author Thomas Erickson.
0:30.9	For more than 20 years, Erickson has been traveling all over Europe, delivering lectures and seminars to executives and managers at a wide range of
0:38.6	companies, including IKEA, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Volvo.
0:43.3	And today, he brings his insights to the Modern Mentor Podcast.
0:47.0	I hope you enjoy our conversation.
0:49.5	Okay, so Thomas Erickson, author of Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees, Welcome to the Modern Mentor
0:58.1	Podcast.
0:59.2	Thank you so much.
1:00.0	Thanks for the invitation.
1:01.3	Yeah, I've been really looking forward to this conversation.
1:04.2	I read the book.
1:05.1	I loved it.
1:06.2	I've been wondering for years about bad bosses and how we still continue to be dealing with this challenge.
1:12.8	And so maybe we can start there because it feels like bad bosses have been around since the
1:18.3	dawn of time or at least the modern workplace. And it's been a known issue for years and years.
1:25.2	And I guess my first question to you is with so many books on
1:28.8	leadership out there, how is it that bad bosses are still a thing that we have not
1:33.7	collectively solved for yet? Actually, the right question to ask, the thing is, when I started
1:40.5	to write this book surrounded by bad bosses, I actually, I'm working as a management consultant, specialized on leadership for, I don't know, 25 years something.
1:51.5	And I written a couple of books before, and I said to myself, I need to write a book about, maybe I have something to add when it comes to management, leadership, and so on and so forth.
2:00.7	Then I actually wrote Surrounded by Bad Boss. It was the first title was surrounded by
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