Fortune columnist Stanley Bing (that is a pseudonym, his real name is Gil Schwartz) has just come out with an updated version of his 1992 book Crazy Bosses, which is is about " The crazy boss in all his guises: the Bully, the Paranoid, the Narcissist, the Wimp, and the self-destructive Disaster Hunter."
I was amused and delighted by the online test that he has developed to assess "Is Your Boss a Crazy Boss?." Consider the first of the ten questions:
Bing casts his net beyond asshole bosses. But he talks a lot about different forms of jerks and bullies. So if you combine Bing’s test with the ARSE (Asshole Rating Self-Exam), the checklist that we developed with Guy Kawasaki, and Linkedin to assesses if your future boss is an asshole, and ARSE Mail, there is a growing battery of asshole assessment and management tools out there. Perhaps the next step is to apply a bit of evidence-based management to these tools, and to figure out when and if they are useful.
P.S. As I reported earlier, The ARSE Test is now over 100,000 completions! Aaron at Electric Pulp tells me 102,123 this very minute!
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