Picture a playground: big kid randomly targets small kid, beating him & taunting him mercilessly. Big kid’s friends laugh & walk away. People may say that big kid is insecure, a coward at heart. Small kid never tells a soul, but eventually recovers from the sticks & stones & name calling that nearly broke him.
In business, bullying is far more complex; bullies are people who, rather than use their talent for assessing strengths & weaknesses in service of their teams and their companies, they instead look to build an uncontested kingdom. Bullies don’t storm the fortress. Instead, people unknowingly fling the castle gates wide open, inviting bullies to mix amongst them, even sit at the head of the table. Bullies tend to appear full of confidence, so we let them in. The more confident & certain they look & sound, the more you deem them credible & capable, regardless of how they got that seat. You simply bullied, silenced, harassed & intimidated your way up that ladder.
It seems AM has a knack for surrounding himself with bullies, female bullies in particular.
He loved SS to bits. She abetted him, did his dirty work ever since he walked in the door. Unfortunately, the BoD forced him to ship her out, as her heavy baggage was way too much of a liability to the owners.
So what does he do? He finds himself not 1, but 2 new tyrants: ML & ST. A couple made in heaven.
AM, you’ve outdone yourself one more time.