Getting Along with a Passive-Aggressive Gossip

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How do you work with someone who’s encroaching on your job, bad-mouthing you, and refusing to acknowledge there’s any tension or problem? Amy G recommends tactics to try and phrases to use.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
0:08.3	You deserve a customized solution, and that's NetSuite.
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0:16.9	absolutely free at NetSuite.com-womenitwork.
0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com-womenitwork.
0:25.2	I'm Amy Gallo, and this is Getting Along, a series where I help a guest,
0:32.4	and you, and everyone else listening, learn to work with anyone,
0:36.0	even difficult people.
0:38.5	By difficult, I mean rude, unprofessional, or hostile,
0:42.5	bad behavior that wears us down.
0:45.4	No one should have to grin and bear it.
0:47.8	Change is possible, but the answer isn't to suppress our emotions
0:52.2	or hope the problem person leaves.
0:54.2	Neither is retaliating or shaming them.
0:57.3	These are lessons I've picked up from being a career coach,
1:00.3	studying conflict, and spending the past couple of years
1:03.7	reading about behavioral science and interviewing researchers for a book.
1:08.2	It's also called Getting Along.
1:11.8	Tending to our toughest work relationships is worth the trouble.
1:15.8	After all, they loom large in our lives,
1:18.4	and have a disproportionate impact on our experiences.
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