Gas Lighter - I'm Scared of Gas Lighters

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Do not confront your gaslighter. Chances are they will do something like call a meeting of the other leaders and report on how awful you've been. Kiss up kick downer: They try to thrive in environments where very few people actually get ahead. The hardest thing about them is if you go to your boss and say, you know, david's making my life a living hell here. And he says, what's the problem here? He loves working with you.

In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in the workplace. You will also learn how to counteract the behaviors of people who make work suck more than it should.

West is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication and will explain how to make work suck less as we return to our offices and figure out how to balance working remotely with working in-person after a year of re-imagining what work even means. West’s new book is an exploration of all the psychological research into how and why gaslighters, bulldozers, neglectors, micromanagers and more do their thing in our workplaces and how to use what we know from decades of psychological research to counteract their Machiavellian machinations.

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