... where you have to resort to this mindset? (Sub he for she as appropriate)
"I say just listen to the message and not how it's being conveyed. If you do that, then you really hear what he's trying to say instead of how he's trying to say it," he said. "That's just how he coaches (manages). He was mentored under some pretty similar coaches (managers), and so that's just his style of coaching (managing)."
Are you secretly wishing he would leave? Or that you could leave?