My boss is (still) bad

In a follow up to his article examining how our workplaces have been unwittingly designed to mass produce dictator-bosses, Chetan Dhruve provides some answers to the many questions that this idea throws up.

Using the 'systems thinking' theory, my previous article showed why we shouldn't blame individual bosses for bad behaviour - the boss-subordinate relationship is a 'system' that makes bad behaviour by bosses almost inevitable. The apparently bizarre 'cure' is to have subordinates vote for their bosses. This idea provokes several questions, which I will answer here:

1. Won't it lead to anarchy?

A 'free system' – in which freedom is an emergent property - does not equal anarchy. For example take a system with - and let-s take a really wild number here - about 300 million people.