Are You a Lacker?

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Lackers tend to be the group members that are greatest socially organizing things, presenting other people's work. They slack off the free load in the kind of traditional sense, what wei but they do it with a smile. And slackers are good at being likable. A micro manager is someone who micre manage because they're afraid or just want you to feel busy.

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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