Reflections On The Road To Respect

For many of us December means holiday preparations and celebrations. For me, it has also come to mean the rather demoralizing task of having to read story after story of disrespect and abuse Now you might be wondering, Erica: why on earth would you want to subject yourself to such a depressing task during the season of light and joy? The short answer is that I am a panel member charged with the task of ranking America’s worst leaders for the eBossWatch America’s Worst Bosses LIST.Our task as panel members is to read through the hundred or so cases of leaders who harass and bully those they are hired to lead, and rank them from 1 – 10: 1 being worst, 10 being the best.Let me be clear here. When I say best, I don’t actually mean best as in good; I mean best as in the least awful.I have to tell you this is a challenging task. I can’t help being reminded of something Woody Allen said in the movie Annie Hall.“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horr