The Bad Manager Podcast is a history and leadership show about the people who were put in charge—and shouldn’t have been.

Each episode explores real stories from history where bad management, poor leadership decisions, and misused authority caused teams to fail, organizations to collapse, and people to pay the price. These aren’t stories of villains twirling mustaches. They’re stories of managers who ignored feedback, chased the wrong metrics, protected their ego, or confused control with competence.

From military and political hierarchies to businesses, institutions, and large organizations, the podcast examines management failures, toxic leadership, decision-making under pressure, and how small managerial mistakes compound into large-scale consequences.

This is not a productivity podcast or a guide to becoming a better boss. It’s a narrative-driven look at bad managers in history, leadership failures, organizational dysfunction, and why authority often rewards the wrong behavior.

If you’re interested in management mistakes, leadership history, power dynamics at work, organizational collapse, and understanding why so many smart people end up led so poorly—this podcast is for you.

The Bad Manager Podcast Because most failures don’t start at the top. They start with the manager.