Are there any positive leadership stories out there anymore? Anyone? Anyone?

Sometimes, I feel like Ben Stein’s economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, casting about for any story that sheds a positive light on the ability to lead with character. Within one week I heard three stories of leadership failure.

The ax with no explanation: A distribution supervisor for a midsized company works 13 hours a day with no overtime pay, six days a week for a year to help oversee the construction of and relocation to a more modernized distribution facility. The week before the facility opens, his employment is terminated, with half a week’s salary as his severance. He is given no explanation why.

Like it or leave: The third-shift foreman of a manufacturing facility puts in a bid to work first shift, for any job description (foreman or otherwise). He is told by the plant manager, “The only way you’ll ever work first shift is to go work for another company.”

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