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The Jordan Harbinger Show

248: How to Navigate Around a Hostile Coworker | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Business, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

You have a hostile coworker undermining you before management at every opportunity. How can you ensure facts will speak up for you instead of your coworker's toxic fabrications? Never fear! We'll show you how to navigate around a hostile coworker on this Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Jason DeFillippo (@jpdef) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/248

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • A Detroit vagrant in his 40s probably has enough problems to deal with. Can any good come from pressing charges against him because he tried (and failed) to steal your laptop?
  • You have a hostile coworker undermining you before management at every opportunity. How can you ensure facts will speak up for you instead of your coworker's toxic fabrications?
  • You hear of coworkers getting a promotion because they're "smart." What does it mean to be smart? Is being smart related to IQ? Is it related to emotional intelligence? Is it related to street smarts? Or is it a combination of all of these?
  • As a business owner in a new country who's pioneered your own niche, how do you avoid a race to the bottom in pricing and remain high in quality as competition attempts to elbow into your turf?
  • Is it ever good to name drop when networking?
  • How can you continue to network and problem solve for your peers, but also start to lay the foundation of credibility with your accomplishments to build future -- and likely new leadership positions -- at your company?
  • You reached out to someone in your chosen field, and you were referred to two others who have agreed to meet with you. How can you use the FEW technique effectively when these meetings happen?
  • Is it worth the ROI to obtain expensive credentials (like an MBA) early in your career? Or is charging forward to gain experience more beneficial?
  • Life Pro Tip: When you get a scammy/spammy phone call, tell them: "I think you have the wrong number...this is a government office." Alternatively, you can play this sound into the phone to possibly get removed from the system's rotation.
  • Recommendation of the Week: Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee (Dave Chappelle Episode)
  • A quick shoutout to David Gray Lassiter!
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday.

0:04.6

I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:09.0

On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

0:12.6

most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

0:17.1

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

0:20.6

This week we had Wendy Bihari talking about narcissists and how to disarm them, whether

0:25.1

we know one or perhaps even live with one.

0:27.6

And Chris Bailey was here talking about hyper-focus and how in order to solve complex problems,

0:32.8

sometimes it's best to actually not focus at all.

0:35.8

I also write every so often on the blog, the latest post is how to help people change

0:39.7

for the right reasons.

0:41.6

We all want to change someone in our lives, whether we live or work with them.

0:45.6

And this article shows us when and how we can accomplish this most daunting of tasks.

0:50.4

So make sure that you've had a look and listen to all of that and the articles of course

0:53.6

are at JordanHarbinger.com slash articles.

0:56.6

Of course our primary mission is to pass along our guests, insights, and experiences and

1:00.5

our experiences and insights along to you.

1:03.3

In other words, the real purpose of the show is to have conversations directly with you.

1:07.4

And that's what we're going to do today here on Feedback Friday.

1:10.2

You can reach us at Friday at JordanHarbinger.com.

1:13.5

Well, we got a bunch of good ones, let's dive right in this week.

1:19.3

Jason, what's the first thing out of the mail bag?

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