way to think about this disparity in perception is to imagine that, for the vast majority of us managers, we have a sign on our forehead. It's visible to all of our directs, and it says, Watch out. I'm your boss. I could fire you. When you control others' addiction to food, clothing, and shelter, they're going to see you through a different lens than you see yourself.
If you doubt this, if you think that you're different – that you're loved and not feared at all by your team – think of it this way: do you tell your boss everything? Of course you don't.
And neither do your directs tell you everything – because you're their boss. Even if you're the nicest person you see in the mirror every morning, even if they would admit you're a really nice guy, to them, you're still the boss, and the power of your role distorts the relationship.
I used to show groups of managers whom our firm was training a videotape of managers interacting with their directs. It was only one minute long, comprising six 10-second video clips of two people meeting in a standard corporate hallway. The video clips were selected because they all showed a manager and a subordinate of the manager. It was a security camera video, with no sound, in black and white. The managers watching didn't know the people in the video clips, and the people in the video clips were dressed in standard corporate casual attire.
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