THE COOL BOSS MYTH (AND OTHER WORKPLACE FAIRY TALES
There is a very specific moment in every working life when the myth collapses.The “cool boss” — generous, human, almost friend-shaped — flickers… and then, quietly, reasserts authority. Not loudly. Not cruelly. Just structurally. Because power doesn’t disappear. It just learns to smile. Martin’s first “cool boss” was his father — which sounds wholesome until…