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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. Is it hurting morale? Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris.

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Loyalty to a Leader Is Overrated, Even Dangerous

Harvard Business Review

Over and over again throughout history and art we are given the strong leader who simply wants to aim for the proper goal, and the disloyal underlings who continually threaten to undermine his (or her) greatness by disobeying. This strategy may be uncomfortable for a manager because it means listening to potentially negative feedback.

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