Really smart or real ass?

Consider these two situations:

1. When there is a situation where you need to come up with an idea/suggestion/recommendation collectively as a team/department, your boss says, "So, you think lah what we can do about it. I have some ideas, but I let you think first, then we exchange ideas."

2. During the supposed exchanging ideas session, you tell your boss your ideas/suggestions. And your boss says, "Aahh... I was thinking the same way..."

Crap!

So if these happen to you, do you think your boss is really smart or a real ass?

Mine is real ass.

When the boss is not balanced!

Can you feel the gap? It is growing bigger between the top management, middle management and the workforce! Everything ideas seems to be like a waterfall, falling from the top! So boss is always the smart one! There was never a chance for the top to listen to the workforce, the people on the ground, the people who is actually touching the jobs with their bare hands, the people who knows better than just plan blueprint! Yes boss! No boss! That is all they can say, how can they suggest? No platform lah. Everything has been taken away. You work, work and work. Projects after projects , initiatives after initiatives! This is maddness!

The fading bootlicker

If you're a boss and love to be licked all around, you have to also understand well enough the signs of your bootlickings leaving you.

Clue:
If a bootlicker nods to all your questions/opinions/ideas, it doesn't mean he/she agrees with you but he/she is just fed-up with you that soon he/she will be leaving you.

Example scenario:
Boss: You'll be in KL tomorrow, right?
Bootlicker: (nod)
Boss: So when is your flight to KL?
Bootlicker: (silent)
Boss: Is it on Thursday night?
Bootlicker: Yes.
Boss: And when will your return to JB?
Bootlicker: (silent)
Boss: Monday morning is it?
Bootlicker: (nod)
Boss: Or is it on Tuesday morning?
Bootlicker: (nod)
Boss: (confused) So, when is it?
Bootlicker: hmmm... Tuesday morning.