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Women at Work

Ask the Amys

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What if one of your first assignments at a new job was to fire people? What should you do if the person leading a project you’re on isn’t giving clear direction, demands that you work nights and weekends, bristles at your feedback—and leadership tells you to fall in line? These are two of the five situations that Amy B and Amy G talk through in this episode. They offer advice to the women who wrote in with their questions, with the hope that it will help them and anyone who’s been in a similar situation, or might be one unfortunate day.

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0:00.0

Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.

0:05.0

Things you used to do in a day take a week.

0:08.0

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0:15.5

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0:22.3

dot com slash women at work. That's Net Suite.com slash women at work.

0:27.0

It's time for Ask The Emmys.

0:31.0

Yeah.

0:32.0

One of my favorite types of episodes. time for Ask The Emmys. Yay!

0:32.7

One of my favorite types of episodes that we do.

0:35.7

I love doing this.

0:36.6

Yeah.

0:37.6

We hear from listeners all the time, mostly through our inbox with questions. they want advice about a situation they're facing,

0:46.0

and we always want to help, and sometimes it leads to an episode idea,

0:52.0

but then sometimes we just want to get into the specifics

0:55.9

of someone's issue and give them some advice.

0:59.5

Yeah, I always learn on these episodes.

1:02.2

Yeah. I learn what's these episodes. Yeah.

1:02.7

You know, I learn what's on people's minds,

1:05.2

but I also learn from the process of thinking through.

1:10.1

Right, right.

1:11.1

And answer with you.

1:12.2

Yeah, like what could be going on, what could the person try out, and also what are we missing?

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