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When Your Boss Insists on Being the Smartest Person in the Room
Episode 118 of The Difficult Boss Podcast tackles a quietly draining archetype: the boss who needs to be the smartest person in every conversation. Lucas and Luna explore how this pattern shows up in meetings, one-on-ones, and even casual Slack threads — and what it costs teams in engagement and retention. They break down a specific study from Harvard Business Review that found teams led by intellectually domineering managers are 27 percent less likely to share novel ideas. Then they walk through three concrete tactics for managing up when your boss can't stand being corrected: the…
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