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20160912ou 一中两外锵锵三人行
今日话题：怎样才算好上司？
LW: Today we’re talking about nice boss syndrome. We all know these kinds of people who are quite conflict averse and look to keep the peace, but it turns out that these people are always what you need as a business to keep going forward. And that I actually might be holding people back themselves.
NL: It makes a lot of sense. Respecting your boss is the most important thing and if you’re boss is an extremely nice person, someone you get along with, but too nice in terms of not following through on goals or targets, or not making sure that what you’re doing is up to standard or up to scratch, or not coming down on you when you’re not, it’s easy to see how your productivity can falter or you can begin to fall behind on things. It’s nice that they’ve given this catch-all syndrome, it seems excessive to me but if it gives a one catch-all name to this name to this problem as it spreads across different industries then yeah. Why not?
WY: I think it depends on the definition of being nice. If you’re simply looking at being nice as being gentle, then I don’t think it is a nice boss. Looking at it in the long term, if the boss can push you forward and you can become better, then that is a nice boss as well; if we’re simply talking about the character, or a person’s attitude toward you. It’s partly about being nice, so how you define nice is also very important.
NL: I don’t think that these two things are necessarily mutually exclusive. Being a nice boss and being a good boss. I think it comes down to what we mean when we say ‘nice’. If you are a person who think that to get the most out of the people around you (maybe that’s just your personality) by having a very business-like relationship with them (i.e. I am your boss you are my employees) then that’s for you. But if you are the kind of person who feels competent and capable with the people around you, that you can get along with them be friendly and still get them to achieve the most, then there is no reason not to be nice to them just because someone says that nice boss syndrome is a thing.
