Dealing with Difficult Bosses - Chapter 3 - Flavor Of The Month

Our guidance on handling your boss's continual new ideas.

Business books about new methodologies, frameworks, strategies and workflows are published at a rate, it seems, of one a minute. Some of us have a 'flavor of the month' boss; the kind who adopts every new idea the moment she comes across it, just because it's popular and fashionable, not because it's helpful. Next month, she's moved on from that, and is implementing another brand new idea. It's disconcerting and destabilizing. Your boss isn't likely to change - and you can't change her. Here's what to do instead.