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How to Manage a Boss Who Steals Your Ideas in Meetings
In this episode of The Difficult Boss Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle a workplace issue that feels uniquely destabilizing: when your boss presents your idea as their own in a meeting. They break down a real scenario from a marketing team where a junior strategist's campaign concept was pitched verbatim by her manager two weeks later. Lucas walks through the psychology — why bosses do it, from insecurity to organizational politics — and then shifts to what actually works: the pre-meeting paper trail, the 'curious follow-up' email, and the art of making your idea too small for a…
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