Have You Worked for a “Knuckle Dragger”?

“Losers take pride in being a bully

Knuckle dragger who’s preying on the weak

Lying in wait for opportunity

No remorse but you’ve never dealt with me

You may be half vulture

But you’re all mouse inside”

– “Half Vulture” by Zerothson

Does, or has, a Neanderthal lead your organization, division or area?

Have you ever been (or still are) in a personal relationship with a Neanderthal?

How do you get Neanderthals to stop making Knuckle Dragging decisions?

The easy answer… it’s 2022… 99% of Knuckle Draggers aren’t likely to change in their lifetime… except possibly on a temporary basis, if they absolutely have to, in order to not lose their power or forfeit something of value to them (e.g. stock options, bonuses, getting work done that can’t get done without you, etc.)

Most Knuckle Draggers will try everything else first, before they’ll entertain the possibility of evolving. Professionally, here’s a few Knuckle Dragger practices, they use to overcome self-induced problems, and enable themselves to avoid, having to actually evolve to an upright posture (i.e. positively change).

1 – High Turnover – They’ll ramp up their hiring process to get as many people with a 98.6 degree body temperature in the queue to replace the people with more than 5 brain cells, who leave.

2 – Employees Who Speak Up – They’ll quarantine those who threaten their stone-age, status quo thinking, to mitigate the possibility, of you revealing, “the Emperor has no clothes”.

3 – Critically Necessary Positions Unfilled – They’ll create artificial, temporary position titles to pay people marginally more, while retaining employees to do what is critical for the business’s current (not long-term) financial success.

Examples include:

Changing the title “Supervisor” to “Manager” (while they still do the Supervisor’s job)
Moving a frontline employee to “Trainer” (while 95% of the time they’re doing frontline work)
Providing interim leadership positions in order to get critical projects done and then returning most employees to their original job… with the valuable (in their eyes only, not your eyes) “atta boy / girl”!

Bailing Knuckle Draggers out of their self-generated manure piles in their rock caves… isn’t easy!

Thus; it’s critical for you to be able to quickly and accurately identify,

when you are interviewing with an organization or manager,

how to identify and accurately differentiate the

Knuckle Draggers from Open-Minded Top Leaders!

Coaching for specific, jugular decisions such as career choices or for

holistically improving your professional, personal and community life…

could be one of the best investments you make… in YOU!