Annoying Subordinates

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🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Does your direct report get on your nerves? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Art Markman, a psychology professor at the University of Texas. They talk through how to manage someone who is unlikable, overly polite, or passive-aggressive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:21.6	We can do something about them.
0:25.1	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.6	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas,
0:30.4	and with the help of experts and insights from academic research,
0:34.5	we help you move forward.
0:38.3	Today we're talking about annoying subordinates with Art Markman.
0:42.4	He's a professor of psychology at the University of Texas.
0:45.5	He's also the co-host of the podcast, Two Guys on Your Head.
0:49.1	Art, thanks so much for being on the show.
0:51.0	Oh, it is great to be here.
0:52.6	So have you had an annoying subordinate yourself?
0:57.4	Well, you know, to me, the biggest problem that I have is people who won't tell me what's going
1:03.7	on with them and then assume I will somehow intuit that there's a problem and exactly what that
1:08.5	problem is and then are annoyed with me when I haven't.
1:11.3	Even if I come out directly and say, okay, there appears to be something going on, that's probably
1:16.4	over the years been my biggest frustration.
1:18.9	And also you feel like it's going to limit their own career.
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