The Worst Manager: Why Good People Become Bad Bosses - And How to Stop the Cycle of Toxic Leadership at Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798199386289)

The leadership book your team wishes they could send you.

The micromanager. The credit thief. The avoider. The hypocrite. The "mental health matters" boss who sends a 10 PM email on Saturday.

You know them. You have worked for them. Some of them, on your worst days, you may have become.

The Worst Manager is a brutally honest, story-driven exposé of modern leadership in the corporate workplace - the small daily mistakes that quietly destroy teams, careers, and mental health, written from the chair of the people doing the work.

Through fifteen unforgettable workplace scenes - the 11:47 PM Slack message, the slide that didn't have her name on it, the Mehrotra account given to the favorite, the all-hands speech that said amazing eleven times - author Aditya Jhingan does something almost no other leadership book has done: he tells the truth.

Not the truth managers want to hear. The truth their teams already know.

You will read this book and recognise:

- The boss who never said thank you - The team lead whose favourite always got the project - The CEO who talked about culture while burning out the workforce - The manager who avoided every hard conversation - The promotion that went to
politics instead of merit - And, uncomfortably, the manager you might be becoming

Each chapter ends with a quiet, devastating mirror: "This might be you if..."

The Worst Manager will not flatter you. It will not give you an acronym to memorise. It will give you something rarer - a mirror you cannot look away from, and a way back from the version of yourself you do not want to become.

"Every employee has lived this book. Every manager needs to read it."

Whether you are a first-time manager, a senior leader rethinking your style, an HR professional, or an employee who needs language for what you are experiencing - start here.

Author: Aditya Jhingan
ISBN-13: 9798199386289
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2026
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d