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Brené Brown on What Vulnerability Isn't

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Do You Know How to Manage Up a Boss or a Leader?

Research shows that when leaders have employees who are courageous and daring, they feel like that gives them a pass. In an ideal world, i would just leave - but if i don't have that option, is there anything i can do to nudge a leader to take off the armor? You can't manage up by teaching your boss this work and asking her to take off armor. I mean, it just doesn't work like that. What i would say: Do you think it could be helpful for us to dig in around what happened as a group? So i would just practise the work, not try to influence people to do the work. Does that make sense? It does. Y

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