Feel the pain of my boss

a weird meeting made my boss pretty upset. He is a man with very good self- control, almost never showed any emotion. But today, I can tell he was different.

This meeting is scheduled for a core group to present their strategy. In a sense, this "core" group has replaced my boss' former hard core position. I guess from the start he was not that happy. I was late, since I did not even plan to go to this meeting. It has nothing to do with what I am doing. My friend somewhat forced or strongly recommended me to attend. So I did. To my surprise, my boss came even later than I. The two of us sat outside of the big circle. I am used to this, like an outsider.  My boss was not. He challenged the core group for their strategy but did not get any real response. He also tried to make another sr person to rise up to challenge this group, well , not quite successful either. The core has already gotten the permission from big boss. Like I said many times to my boss that big boss is a tyrant. if you need anything, you have to get it from him first. That is the only way. After the meeting, boss was red in face down to his neck. It is a touch thing for him since he has never before experienced pain like this, being side-tracked. That is my specialty. I feel the pain he was going through. Sad.

I dislike big boss even more, am disgusted by his way of doing things. this time, he put a bimbo as the leader of a core group. She can do nothing except fooling around big boss, like  a cheer leader around a football star. I guess this can make him feel good about himself. He has serious issues about self confidence. I have learned that gradually during conversations we had in 1:1. What an irony! I had thought for quite some time that he is one of the best leaders I have seen in industry.  That obviously was a mistake.