Finding Peace With the Boss by Peter Block

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We have higher expectations for the person that we report to than we dofor any one else in the organization. And sometimes that can then turn into anger, and i'm quoting peter block from his book Finding peace with the boss. Some of us tend to bury the resentment we feel toward those above us. The fear is that if we owned up to the resentment, it would be an act of disloyalty and get us in trouble. But once we've acknowledged that disappointment, that anger, we have to recognize, this is a person just like any one else. In fact, sometimes the reasons that they got promoted up into that position are actually antithetical with the ways many

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