First-time Bosses

Dear HBR:

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What should you do when you become the boss? Co-hosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Harvard Business School professor Alison Wood Brooks, an expert on behavioral insights. They talk through what to do when your direct reports are older than you, how to be a likeable leader, and what to say if you’re not ready to be in charge.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:05.0	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	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,
0:30.1	and with the help of experts and insights from academic research,
0:34.3	we help you move forward.
0:38.1	So, Dan, when you suggested that we might start co-hosting this podcast together and
0:44.0	then it would be an advice show, I thought that was a great idea because you are always
0:47.6	the one giving me advice about what to do at work.
0:50.5	Well, that makes it sound like I'm a know-it-all, and I just promiscuously give advice all the time.
0:54.9	No, that's true. But I think we talk to each other before we go into our annual reviews a lot of times.
1:02.4	And we compare notes afterwards. Yeah. I started two weeks before you at HBR, and we've sat next to each other the entire time that we've worked for the company.
1:11.8	We give each other advice back and forth.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:15.0	Why this appeals to me is work has gotten more complicated and just flat out crazy in a lot of
1:20.5	organizations.
1:21.6	If somebody's awake at 2 o'clock in the morning obsessing over something, work is probably a big
1:27.4	chunk of the pie chart.
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