• Podcast Selected: journal of accountancy
• Title of the Episode: Subject line to salutation: How to manage a difficult relationship with your boss
• Episode # and/or Episode Date: September 16, 2019 Hosted by Drew Adamek with Karen Dillon a former
editor with Harvard Business Review and author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics,
• List your three takeaways from the podcast you listened to.
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Drew Adamek discussion about difficult bosses, someone who holds you back, hogs all the credit,
or plays favorites in the office. But encountering a bad boss doesn’t have to make or break your
career. You can take charge when your boss doesn’t.
The podcast relationship with your boss is critical to your career; a good boss gives you the tools and
opportunities to grow and advance, while a bad boss can hamper your development and breed
resentment.
it’s important to take responsibility for your career and find ways to navigate challenging
relationships. Karen offers several tips on how to thrive even in difficult relationships with your boss.
You can’t control, you’re not able to stop the boss liking other people, and in fact, the more you think
about complaining, or undermining, or showing that they’re not really worth that extra attention, the
more you will actually end up looking like the jerk according to Karen.
Understanding that everybody benefits from you having a healthy relationship with your boss, both
you and your boss, then I think you can begin to try to work to make sure you have one, which is
good for everybody and it’s good for the company
1. Dealing with Favoritism
Rise up rather than try to take the other person down. Karen Dillon I think that’s the healthiest
possible thing to do because it’s very easy to fixate on how unfair it is but your boss or
being, to understand what he or she is thinking about, caring about, going through at work,
outside of work if possible, you build a relationship that has multiple dimensions