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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A peer group is exhausting themselves managing around dysfunction rather than addressing it.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social Services — Nonprofit Leadership & Management?”

Peri

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