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When middle managers enable bad leadership through protection

The other managers and I complain to each other constantly about our VP but none of us has ever given him direct feedback and he probably has no idea how his communication style is affecting the teams. We've created this whole shadow organization where we translate his directives and protect our reports from his chaos but we're all burning out.

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