I once had a super-hyper and intense drill sargent-type boss who was quite high up the latter and had his hands in quite a few big deals. He was quite capable to solve problems and drive projects but had very little class in dealing with people and was famous for his immature baby-like outbursts with his team causing a lot of stressful days on the job.
While being extremely fixed on getting his SVP promotion, it so happened that an external consulting company was hired to allow his team, his colleagues and his supervisors to do a 360 degree profile feedback on him to help value his performance and determine if he would get the SVP promotion. Unfortunately, that year he didn't get the promotion. What then followed was shocking for me.
After receiving the bad news and together with the 'confidential' 360° feedback, he then called the whole team into his office where we all sat around a table and listened to him read the report which we all had individually submitted on him and was neatly summarised in a document prepared by the external consulting firm. As he read through each individual comment, he would pause and go around the table until the author of each comment identified himself publically in front of the team. As you may imagine, it was quite an uncomfortable situation for those of us who actually answered the questions honestly and then had to admit it in front him.
The year after next, the same 360° exercise was conducted. As you can imagine, this time around he got exceptinal praise from all of us. Not one negative critisism! That year he finally got his SVP promotion. He even took us all out for drinks to show his appreciation.
I am laughing as I am writing this but it is quite sad.
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