Can anyone provide advice on how to work with a CEO who will only communicate via email, and their number one pleasure is to gaslight you at every opportunity?

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Ugh yah that’s what I am starting to realize.

“Per my previous email” (attach email).

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Yah it is puzzling that the CEO does act like this. I have never experienced this behaviour prior. I have tried the per previous email approach, the problem is they don’t ever respond lol. Then when they do respond they take the approach how it’s everyone’s fault and no one knows what they are doing etc.

I think that’s where I am at. Looking for new opportunities

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Herein lies one of the challenges of being in sales. The CEO has very little regard for salespeople and believes that (s)he can do a better job than each of them any day of the week. To some extent, (s)he is right. The way I've dealt with this in the past is to be respected by the people the CEO respects, and let the feedback flow from those people back to the CEO. Those people are usually members of the BoD and the Board of Advisors.

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How would you say they are gaslighting you? I am just curious. I agree with everyone above, I would start looking elsewhere.

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Instead of talking about the matter at hand, will bring up an irrelevant topic and spin it in a way that tried to discredit me or makes me look bad in front of my peers. It’s odd.

But I am now starting the job search. Just brutal when you leave a job and the tenure at the new job is less then 6 months. Painful.

Thanks everyone for their insight

Sorry to hear you're going through that. I went through something similar not too long ago and had to switch my direct report. Could you reach out to HR?

Thanks! I did reach out to HR, not much has changed as of yet. I just find it shocking that this behaviour is still around and tolerated.

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