Communication is often a casualty of poor management as portrayed in this illustration. Credit: Yellow Man

How I Came to Understand My Bullying Boss

Ranking bad bosses is a game no one wants to win. Yet for those of us whose working careers began (gulp) in the last century, we can recall a time when toxic work environments and bullying bosses were considered entirely normal.

In my case, I was warned. It was the mid-1980s. Before I took an editorial contract position in the public affairs office of a health and science institution, my…