The Devil Emails at Midnight: From Bad Boss to Better Leader with Mita Mallick
About this episode
Mita Mallick discusses her experiences with toxic leadership and shares insights on transforming bad boss behaviors into effective leadership.
In this episode of The WorkWell Podcast™, Jen Fisher speaks with Mita Mallick , leadership expert and author of " The Devil Emails at Midnight: What Good Leaders Can Learn from Bad Bosses. " Mita shares powerful stories from her own experiences with toxic leadership and reveals how she learned to recognize—and address—her own bad boss behaviors. Episode Highlights: The origin story behind the provocative title and how a flooded childhood home led to discovering a "burn book" of bad bosses 13 types of toxic bosses including "The Sheriff" who refused to learn her name and renamed her "Mohammed," and "Medusa" who ruled through fear and public humiliation The three moments when bad boss behavior emerges : external marketplace stress, absorbing behaviors from your own bad boss, and personal life catastrophes Why bad bosses aren't born, they're made and how grief, trauma, and unprocessed emotions show up in leadership The midnight email phenomenon and why normalizing around-the-clock work expectations is unsustainable and counterproductive How fear-based leadership drives short-term results but destroys long-term productivity through turnover, disengagement, and organizational damage…
Topics covered
- leadership
- toxic bosses
- self-reflection
- workplace dynamics
- vulnerability in leadership
- organizational behavior
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