Are you tired of working with an egoistic boss?

Working as a consultant in several companies gave me a chance to work with different people with various positions. With countless meeting I’ve been into, I saw more than enough of “Battle of Egos”. Where two or more individual unconsciously played virtual tag of war and exhibits how big their egos are.

Egos are not necessary evil and everyone of us has an ego. It provide us drive and energy, if they are use appropriately.

Unfortunately, most of time the bad side of ego dominates and resulted in low productivity, culture of dishonesty, loss of good people, and intimidation. In Filipino, we call it “Pataasan ng Ihi”. Have you seen how our lawmakers debates on national television? You’ve seen a classic egos at war. You will rarely see sincerely acknowledge his mistakes. These are Ego-driven individual. Ego-free is the counterpart of Ego-driven.

In corporate world, executives pride themselves with their title, (e.g. “Executive Director”, “IT Manager”), salary, big offices, and more. They may not aware of this, but their mismanage ego comes with an expensive price tag.

I will post a series on managing our own ego and other people’s egos. Stay tuned.

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