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The Devil Emails at Midnight
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The Devil Emails at Midnight

by Mita Mallick
September 2025
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
4h 29m
English
Wiley
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Index

  • A
    • Accountability:
      • for fear‐based leadership, 101–102
      • for microaggressions, 36–37
      • for mistakes, 159
    • Achor, Shawn, 139–140
    • Age, 126–127
    • Attractiveness, of leaders, 130
  • B
    • Bad bosses. See also specific types
      • being one, 1
      • commonalities of, 5–6
      • insensitivity over grieving employees, 198
      • learning from, 205
      • taking advantage of team members, 169
      • temporarily bad, 3
    • Bereavement policies, 197–200
    • Better Up, 140
    • Biases:
      • challenging, 8
      • interrupting your own, 114–116
      • of team members, 117–118
      • toward pregnant women and mothers, 111–112
    • Boomerang employees, 189
    • Bosses:
      • bad, see Bad bosses
      • bullying by, 31
      • effect of, on culture, 8
      • first‐time managers, 67–69
      • kindness of, 128
      • power of, 8
    • Bright Horizons, 117
    • Bullying, 31, 37. See also Microaggressions
    • Burnout:
      • and false sense of urgency, 80
      • and fear‐based leadership, 98–101
    • Busyness, 80–81
    • Bystander intervention training, 37–38
  • C
    • Calendars, decluttering, 19–20
    • Career advancement, 187–189
    • Center for Creative Leadership, 67
    • Changes, for reengagement, 51
    • Checking in, with grieving colleagues, 203–204
    • Coaching, 68
    • Colleagues, supporting grieving, 201–204
    • Communication:
      • culture of transparent, 159–161
      • destroyed by fear, 97
      • pausing before speaking, 157–158
      • with team members, 50–51
    • Competence:
      • and age, 126–127
      • assessing other's, 132–133
      • assessing your, 128–129
    • Compliments, excessive, 143–144
    • Connecting, with team members, 20–21
    • Creativity, 98
    • Culture:
      • and accountability, 36–37, 101, 102
      • effects ...
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ISBN: 9781394316489