Pre-Pandemic Promises (Bonus)

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Is your organization breaking a promise to you and blaming Covid-19? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Leigh Thompson, a negotiations professor at Kellogg School of Management. In this bonus episode, they talk through what to do when your boss can no longer afford to give you a planned raise.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.5	Today we're bringing you a bonus episode on promises that were made before the coronavirus
0:37.2	pandemic that may
0:38.7	now be deferred or broken. And we're bringing back our expert guest from episode 33 on counteroffers.
0:45.3	Lee Thompson is a professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
0:49.7	She's also the author of the forthcoming book Negotiating the Sweet Spot, The Art of Leaving
0:54.2	Nothing on the Table.
0:55.7	Lee, welcome back.
0:56.9	I'm so glad to be here.
0:58.3	Thank you for having me, Allison.
0:59.9	Yeah.
1:00.1	So you research negotiations and give advice to individuals and organizations.
1:06.1	How much has the current crisis changed the dynamics?
1:10.7	Completely. And some people are kind of caught in what I call Never Never Land. has the current crisis changed the dynamics?
1:11.3	Completely.
1:15.7	And some people are kind of caught in what I call Never Never Land, right?
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