Aggression is considered a negative term. However, if you want to be respected as a manager, you have to fight aggressively for your position at times, says conflict expert Jens Weidner.
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Dusseldorf The rumors began shortly before the rise of a highly qualified executive to the board. They were scattered by colleagues, targeted to ruin their image. It is in situations like these that managers turn to Jens Weidner from the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in Hamburg. The criminologist has long researched the structures of American gangs. As a management consultant, the professor now explains to executives when the limit of their own niceness has been reached – and when it’s time for tougher bandages.
“Without a certain amount of aggression, managers are always at risk of being cheated by others,” says Weidner. He advised the manager to defend herself, saying that misogynist attacks had to be identified as such internally – and thus turn them into a boomerang for the attackers.
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