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Your Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career

Harvard Business Review

He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. He reminded me of what Jim Hacker (the fictional politician in the English cult classic " Yes, Minister ") said to his bureaucratic colleague, "You really are a wet blanket, Humphrey, you just go around stirring up apathy.".

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