Building Constructive Loyalty

As a working professional, you can’t make your manager’s fears go away, because in many of the situations described earlier, you’re not the source of them. However, often you can avoid making them worse. As a simple example of a useful technique, don’t complain about your boss anywhere someone can hear you.

What to Avoid: Criticizing Your Manager in Public

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Criticizing your job is a time-honored tradition, but criticizing the boss where anyone can hear you goes to the heart of the loyalty relationship. If your boss does something you really hate, you may feel justified in complaining about them to your coworkers at ...

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