India, Jan. 25 -- The fact that bosses have a mind of their own, they're temperamental and often pesky, is well known. What is not known is that we too have the tendency to emulate them in their bossiness, however unwittingly, when our own turn comes.

The mantle of 'boss' does not befit and therefore does not become, every human being. Some are born bosses and slide seamlessly into their elevated roles, whenever they chance upon them. Others can never even pretend to feel comfortable in a superior role, and often wish that they were back amongst the echelons of the junior-most riff-raff!

There is of course a third category - those who are incompetent, as well as boorish, non-performers, but they scarcely realise it. They seem to think t...