Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, The Ant Trap. This cast answers these questions.

What do you do when your boss's peer tasks you? How can you avoid relationship damage with your boss's peers? What kind of authority

does your boss's peer have over you and your team? And why do we call it the Antrap?

If you want answers these questions for more, keep

listening. Here we go.

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We're going to talk about the ant trap.

Tell me what.

Yeah, so look, dude, this used to be called the uncle trap you know my boss's peer inevitably 30 years ago most likely a male

Right that would be your uncle and so all we've done is modernize the reference so now it's the ant trap not the

uncle tramp but the ant trap I like it I like it yeah yeah and basically what we're talking about here is, look guys, your boss has

rule power over you and your team, obviously. So when he or she, but we'll make it he in this case because we want to make distinction about

genders here but when he tasked you it's no surprise like that's that's how work happens

stuff flows downhill right but what about your boss's peers?

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