John Hoover - Idiot Quotes

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What purpose is being served by keeping idiots oblivious to the carnage they create?

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Invite you Buddy Boss to everything.... Share information openly... Request meetings... Beware of the confessional.... Your Buddy Boss will devote endless hours to hearing your confessions and making hers to you... a potential disconnect from getting any appreciable work done.... Set time limits.... Getting along with her... requires ignoring everything you're being paid to do... Dedicated workers get hit the hardest because they must work nights and weekends to do the things they would have done... With luck, you might be transferred to an Idiot Boss.

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There are no Idiot Police. We're on our own to deal with the idiots among us.

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After studying idiot bosses for more than two decades, I finally understand why females in certain species eat their young.

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Active idiots carry their dysfunction into positions of leadership and remain oblivious to the havoc they wreak.... Recovering idiots are not perfect.... But we're working on it.

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Am I an idiot?... Answer the questions honestly.... When I receive orders to cut my staff I... Cut the people who challenge me the most to think...

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Why must intelligent people suffer from worry, fear, and anxiety while idiots sleep well at night?

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I never realized what it was really like to work for an idiot until I started working for myself.

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Your Idiot Boss needs to feel that someone is on his side, in his corner, and has his back. Find times to support your Idiot Boss, especially in his times of uncertainty and doubt.

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Idiot Bosses are not all bad. Most every one of them are good at something. They're just not good at being bosses.

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Sometimes what appears to be an idiot is just a regular person with idiosyncrasies.

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Once you have become a transcendent idiot—one who can reflect upon his personal condition and circumstances—you can no longer wander back into the idiot population and disappear.

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Idiot Bosses are the mutant hiccups of organizational evolution with cockroach-like immunity to calamities that wipe out truly talented and creative people.

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Even idiots tend to retain bits and pieces of knowledge. If your I-Boss stumbles into a good move, something that is truly helpful... reinforce it...

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In most cases, practicing idiots don't make life miserable for the rest of us on purpose.

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Some idiots are granted the freedom to do whatever they want to do... and have unlimited resources to do so. They will also receive complete anonymity on demand, no accountability... and not lift a finger to make it all possible.

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I once failed miserably trying to market a seminar title, "How to Manage People who are Smarter, More Talented, and Productive tha Your Are." My mistake was advertising to Idiot Bosses who needed the seminar.

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Idiots lack imagination.... coupled with the tunnel vision... means the ship will be submerged before they realize it hit an iceberg.... you not only need to do or say things that warrant attention... you need to exaggerate them so much he can't possibly fail to notice.

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