The best boss ever

The best person I ever worked for was a woman named Yolanda Venegas. I’ve worked with some very nice people over the years, and she is certainly one of them. Every time the phone would ring and her name would pop up on the caller ID, I would smile, just out of reflex.

In my experience, that’s a pretty rare reaction to any boss. Tonight I got to puzzling about what it is that made working for Yolanda so different.

1. She had gotten to be the boss honestly. I thought of her today in contrast to another person’s name that came up. (Yes, I was gossiping!) My friend and I can’t decide whether the person we were talking about (the gossippee! ), let’s call her Joanne, had actually gotten her new promotion by sleeping with the boss or just by kissing up so much. Yolanda was competent, very knowledgable about her work. It was clear to everyone that she deserved her position and so we all respected her. Because she was very competent, her staff didn’t have to waste time explaining things she didn’t know. Because she was confident in her knowledge, it didn’t bother her to admit that she didn’t know something, and, of course, we had no problem filling her in on whatever it was.

2. She encouraged honesty in other people.

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