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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Insecure employees are “hard to evaluate, hard to coach, and hard to develop,” says Ethan Burris, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. Managing a chronically insecure employee is challenging but you must try not to let your frustration show. What the Experts Say.

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Loyalty to a Leader Is Overrated, Even Dangerous

Harvard Business Review

.” The notion of loyalty as a protective force that leads to great success is so much a part of how we think about leadership that it is very easy to accept, even when it is not espoused by someone as exceptionally interesting to watch as James Spader. In real life, though, he would make a terrible manager. Leadership Ethics'

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