Getting Along with an Insecure, Know-It-All Pessimist

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

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How do you bring about positive change — or just keep a workplace functional — when the person in charge won’t listen? Amy Gallo 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.
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0:25.2	You know, I got hired and told, we hired you for these skills.
0:34.6	We hired you for this reason.
0:35.7	We hired you to do these things.
0:38.0	So I'm like, yay, great.
0:39.6	I get to do what I love.
0:41.6	I come in and I start doing it, and it's not met how I thought it would be met.
0:49.0	George is so defensive about everything and attacks every idea.
0:53.3	So then, I'm just constantly at this point, considering, okay, is it worth it to say anything
1:00.3	because what's the likelihood of getting a response that will feel good versus a response
1:07.2	where I'm going to go home and scream into a pillow for an hour?
1:11.8	Kim runs operations and human resources at a small consulting firm, or trudges through
1:16.8	that role, really, because of George's pushback.
1:19.8	He's the founder and one of four owners, all men who've worked together for years.
1:24.8	The other three owners, she says, have given up on trying to persuade him to adopt new processes
1:29.9	or programs.
1:31.4	She describes their position on his behavior this way.
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