CEO disease

The management term CEO disease or "manager illness " describes the information vacuum surrounding a manager that arises when employees withhold important (or unpleasant) information. The term was first coined in 1991 by John Byrne. This is often caused by the fact that employees who are supposed to report to their supervisor fear negative consequences. Other employees, on the other hand, always deliver only positive news, often for fear of otherwise being seen as troublemakers . The result of this behavior is that the supervisor is only partially informed about what is going on in his department .

See also

• Emotional intelligence
• SNAFU

literature

• Daniel Goleman , Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKnee: Emotional Leadership . ISBN 3-548-36466-7

Individual evidence

1. ^ First described by John Byrne in "CEO Disease," in BusinessWeek , April 1, 1991, pp. 52-59