Here is a list of behaviors & traits you should demonstrate, practice and implement at work in order to break the trust of your employer, employees, co-workers and clients :
- Advance your own interest at the expense of others.
- Be blatantly and pompously self-promoting.
- Use inconsistent standards to evaluate employees.
- Allow some people to break the rules and expect others to follow them.
- Do not care about performance problems until the time to rate your employee.
- Enable poor-performers to stay in your organization unchallenged.
- Pigeon-hole your employees.
- Take credit of your employee's work.
- Withold important information.
- Be closed minded to diverse ideas.
- Act disrepectfully towards others.
- Lie or cover up, rather than admit to mistakes.
- Break promises, or use words cheaply.
- Betray confidence by saying one thing and doing another.
- Spin by communicating selective facts, and by lacing tone to imply a different context.
- Act inconsistently; be incongruent in body language and intent.
- Have frequent negative interactions with co-workers and subordinates.
- Hide incompetence by making excuses.
- Plagerize others' ideas and work.
- Don't listen to others' opinions then punch holes without understanding the issue completely.
- Don't teach others to fish, rather bring them the fist.
- Make people dependent on you for daily work.
- Be unconcerned about personal needs, be pompous and self-promoting.
- Don't be humble or meek.
The above is synthesized from Fernando Bartalome's "Nobody Trusts the Boss Completely, Now What?" (Harvard Business Review)
