A new UK survey identifies 5 types of office bosses: tigers, gorillas, sloths, jackals and foxes and suggests ways you can tame each of them.

Can you spot your leader?

• Tigers - Sleek, stealthy, predatory and deadly


• Gorillas - likes to terrify subordinates by showing anger


• Sloths – hiding away, looking for a quiet life


• Jackals - attack their victims only after another predator has bought them down


• Foxes - Cunning and clever, able to outwit and outflank everyone

In this survey of 340 people conducted by Jet UK 84% of UK office workers like working with their bosses, 63% are looking for a fair boss and 19% someone who’s approachable and fun.

The command-and-control approach of Apprentice star and Amstrad boss Sir Alan Sugar did not go down well either :deemed the boss from hell by over 30% of respondents, with the fictional David Brent following close behind at 27%.

See Team Leadership: Stone Age Management fights back for more on command and control leadership.

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The secret physics of social network growth

February 26, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

A crowd draws a crowd but you need to be fit too. Distinguished Physicist Albert Laszlo Barabasi in his excellent book "Linked - the New Science of Networks" lets us into the secret of how any kind of network grows.

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