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Your Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career

Harvard Business Review

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.". But what happens if an undermanager reads an article, book or attends training of this kind?

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