The Working Week Podcast

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What is it that makes millions of people around the world, regardless of their national culture, afraid of their bosses?

This week, Wayne is joined from India by author Chetan Dhruve to discuss his theory that workplaces are unwittingly designed to produce fear - that all bosses are, by definition, programmed to be dictators.

Chetan explains that in today's workplace, we over-use the term "leader". But by definition, a leader is elected. In the workplace bosses have power but they are not elected - which makes them dictators.

Hence, we need to change our workplace systems from fear-systems to free-systems. The only way to do that, bizarre though it may sound, is to have subordinates vote for their bosses. Until that happens, he says, things are not going to fundamentally change.

The intro music to the Working Week is "The Warrior" by The EMP Project, used with permission of Blue Canoe Records.

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Show synopsis
"The Working Week" is a weekly digest of news, blogs, and opinion from the pages of www.management-issues.com. Each week, host Wayne Turmel leads a spirited discussion on matters important to business, management development and human resources and the things that have caught his - and his guests' - eyes.
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