Are You a Kiss Up, Kick Downer?

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Bosses who are the most at risk for kiss up kick downers are those who are comfortable dolling out responsibilities to other people. The danger is, kiss or pick downers will often use their social capital and endo favors to cut their boss off from communicating with other people. If you're a boss and you hear someone offering these kinds of favors that basically ultimately amount to you being caught out of communication, it's better to even have five minute conversations with those interns than it is to completely offlow things like that.

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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