Getting Along with a Political Operator

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

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do you stay in the loop when someone keeps kicking you out? 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.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:30.0	Olivia is a mid-level sales executive at a big company.
0:33.0	Part of her job is to facilitate communication and cooperation
0:37.0	between her former boss and the sales team.
0:40.0	Olivia remembers the experience of working under this woman
0:43.0	as being an overall positive one.
0:46.0	She assigned her meaningful projects that high expectations
0:49.0	and gave her enough coaching and encouragement to meet them.
0:53.0	But she would also need to be like the smartest person in the room
0:57.0	and the most well-informed person in the room.
0:59.0	And so, for me, it was mostly okay
1:02.0	because I don't need to be the best and brightest outlet.
1:05.0	I was comfortable playing my role of like, she's my manager.
1:07.0	She's very, very talented at her work, so I was happy to let her take the lead.
1:12.0	But now that she's been promoted, she's been leaving Olivia out,
1:16.0	like by hoarding information to appear powerful
1:19.0	and undermining her by not inviting her to meetings about projects she's involved in.
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