Bad leaders will be predominantly self-interested, only concerned with their own aggrandizement and advancing their careers. Chances are, you know the type and already have a clear picture in your head of who this person might be. Every new role or work group they enter, they'll come in with some "holier-than-thou" "I know better" attitude, even if they've never worked in an industry like this before, and enact the same copy-and-paste plan, slashing operation costs without bothering to even talk to any of their new subordiantes first. And while their bosses don't know any better and assume that their new hire does (they interviewed so well!)
However, when they can apply for their next role, they can include "Reduced operation costs by $X amount" on their CV, where X is a substantial and almost unbelievable number that is sure to catch the attention of a hiring manager. Plus, they can conveniently omit the fact that those reduced operation costs hamstrung the business and led to the failure of the workgroup, because that still hasn't happened yet and everyone at your old job, except the lowest level productive workers who warned this would happen, is still running around trying to figure out why the ship is sinking.
Years after his stepfather was fired from the company where the pair of them worked, this manager was presented with a unique opportunity to step onto the karmic scales and balance them in favor of karmic justice, making good on the wrong done to his stepfather years before when the owner of that company came seeking to do contract work for the company that he now managed. This owner had been one of those bosses, not worried at all about those under him, he couldn't even remember that the manager had once worked for him, but he would soon come to realize that he wasn't getting any contracts here.
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