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Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work (HBR Work Smart Series)
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Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work (HBR Work Smart Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Susan David, Talisa Lavarry, Lily Zheng, Melody Wilding
May 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
2h 53m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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12 When You Don’t Feel Comfortable Being Yourself at Work

by Dorie Clark

Sometimes the corporate cultures in which we find ourselves don’t match our personalities. Occasionally, that can lead to healthy creative friction; other times it creates painful pressure to conform. That was the situation facing one of my executive MBA students. “I’m having a problem at work,” she told me. “I keep getting feedback that I’m distant, and I think it’s harming my career.” The reason she was getting that response, she admitted, is because she was acting aloof. “I’m not sure how to be my real self at work,” she said.

Many of us face similar problems. In her case, she was a free-spirited Burning Man devotee who found herself working for a buttoned-down ...

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