TENJerkDON’T BE ONE

Ponder this: Are you one? Occasionally?

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We’ve all worked with or for people who exhibit “jerklike” behaviors. You know, they’re the ones that shout, humiliate, fail to listen, demand perfection, show disrespect, betray trust, simply don’t care—and the list goes on.

And if the word jerk doesn’t exactly translate for you, how about one of these words?

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In Greek, we hear that there are at least 20 words that mean “jerk.”

No matter what the name for it, people in every culture and in every company occasionally, sometimes accidentally, exhibit jerklike ...

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