706: Tessa West | How to Deal with Jerks at Work
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Tessa West (@tessawestnyu) is a social psychology professor at New York University and the author of Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them.
What We Discuss with Tessa West:- The seven types of jerks at work: the kiss up/kick down, the credit stealer, the bulldozer, the free rider, the micromanager, the neglectful boss, and the gaslighter.
- Why prioritizing conflict management as a skill is crucial for identifying and coexisting with jerks at work.
- How to stop the jerks at work from taking credit for all of your good ideas.
- Have mercy: jerks at work aren't necessarily villains -- their poor patterns hurt them just as much as they hurt everyone else.
- What we can do to ensure that we're not the jerks at work.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | The number one reason why people get credit for things that they didn't do is because, |
| 0:07.4 | and we don't like to admit this, they restate your ideas in a way that is cleaner and more |
| 0:13.4 | powerful and with more leadership style than you did. |
| 0:17.0 | And unfortunately, that means that things stick to them and not to you. |
| 0:20.4 | And so the best thing that you can do is actually learn how to have voice at work. |
| 0:23.8 | And what that means is, when you say something, people listen to you and those ideas stick to |
| 0:28.4 | you. |
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