Is Your Request Sold for Your Gheco Boss?

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A lot of this comes down to knowing what scratches your bosses itches. Figure out what favors they owe people and what things that theyre really struggling to get done. Offer up to do things that they can't find anyone else to do, because time is money. And if you say, look, i'll do this thing that i know you've asked 14 other people to do, then they will give you that rase just to save themselves 20 hours of knocking down door.

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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