What Toxic Management Actually Looks Like — and What to Do About It
Does any of this sound familiar? Your emails go unanswered. Not occasionally — consistently. Your work is good, you know it's good, and it is met with silence. Meetings consume time and produce nothing. Information that should reach you doesn't. Decisions are made without you and handed down as facts. Your judgement is bypassed. Your track record counts for nothing. You are managed like a risk. If you're nodding: your instincts are correct. This is not ordinary bad management. It has a pattern, and the pattern has a logic. The silence is deliberate. The rambling — the forty-five minutes of circular, content-free, point-avoiding nonsense-speak — is deliberate. A manager who will never say in five words what can be said in fifty-five is not disorganised. They are hiding. Behind the fog of their own words, behind the deniability of nothing ever being said clearly, behind a style that is sly in direct proportion to how much it resembles mere incompetence. Ì have seen people b...