Pierre never likes his bosses.
He says they all stink.
Tells everyone, often in whispers.
“Don’t let anyone know I said this, but…”
He makes good teams worse.
He’s going to find major faults in you, if he’s hired.
With certainty.
Whether those faults are real or imagined.
Add you to his list of lousy leaders.
Tell others how incompetent you are.
Create problems on your team.
He’s predictable, Newtonian.
Maybe you got an MBA from HBS or Wharton or LBS.
I bet you didn’t take an elective on Identifying Pierres.
On screening for the insidious, team-corrupting whisperers.
“Don’t say I said this, but…”
We take our PE clients through interview school, that class you missed.
Show them how to identify Pierres.
He’s often a costly mistake, in more than one way.
You can tell him I said that.
