Would You Rather Be Invisible or Fly?

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There's a lot of research on how we like people who are similar to us, right? I've actually done some res talk about tho study the 'would you rather study t' - and i wish it was 70 thousand. You just't nee, o, belie you're similar to these people, and then you like them more. But they know that being a sincopant is annoying, especially to people in power. They get people trying to kiss up to them all the time. It's irritated, right? But incidental similarities work on everybody, and they feel fresh and they feel cute, and we like them. Sometimes thoure usionly mutual.

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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