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Harvard Business Review

Careers, Business/management, Work, Advice, Harvard, Help, Mentor, Workplace, Business, Management, Challenges, Entrepreneurship, Hbr, Office, Business/careers, Business/entrepreneurship

4.6782 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The advice show for workplace dilemmas. We take your questions and offer a better way forward.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dear HBR, I have a problem. My boss never admits when he's made a mistake.

0:06.1

Dear HBR, I'm a VP in a high-tech company, and I'm dealing with a colleague who's a bully.

0:11.5

Dear HBR, I just had a romantic encounter with a work colleague.

0:14.9

Dear HBR, I work in a financial services industry.

0:18.0

I'm really struggling with one of my subordinates.

0:20.2

She said that it seemed unproductive to talk about her feelings.

0:22.9

My boss just quit.

0:24.2

But here's where it gets weird.

0:25.6

How can I learn to be more open without seeming weak?

0:28.1

What can I do to improve the situation?

0:30.0

How do I say no and not hurt my career?

0:32.5

From Harvard Business Review, this is a new advice podcast.

0:37.0

Dear HBR. I'm Kurt Nickish, a senior editor at

0:41.3

HBO where we care deeply about helping people do better at work. Because work can be frustrating,

0:47.9

full of misunderstandings and tension, but it doesn't have to be that way. Dear HBR takes your

0:53.8

questions about your workplace dilemmas

0:56.0

and helps you find a better way forward.

0:59.5

The show is hosted by two Harvard Business Review editors, Dan McGinn and Alison Beard.

1:05.2

It was research basically showing that low-status bosses,

1:10.0

whether it's because of their age or experience

1:12.0

or education level, actually should be bossy and it's more effective, which struck me as so

1:17.7

odd.

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