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When Your Boss Has an Angry Outburst, What Do They Do Next?

Harvard Business Review

Applying this theory to the context of leadership, we suggest that leaders’ verbal and nonverbal mistreatment of their staff (for example, making fun of subordinates, yelling or swearing at them, or otherwise behaving in a nasty or rude way) runs counter to two key components of moral concern — care and justice.

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How to Manage Subject Matter Experts

Lead Change Blog

The following story outlines my own experience working with a corporate lawyer to help me with a real estate business, demonstrating that SMEs can be misaligned even when their intentions are to help you as well as they can: An excerpt from Stop Guessing: the 9 Behaviors of Great Problem-Solvers. The expert may be misaligned.