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DEALING WITH THE BOSS
Developing people skills is vital whether you are dealing with your boss, your peers and colleagues, your potential customers, or your employees. As a High-FF trying to make progress in your career, however, the person most likely to loom largest is your boss.
There’s no getting away from it – working for a bad boss is hell. A bad boss can obsess, oppress and depress us – reducing a potentially-enjoyable job to a confidence-sapping imprisonment. Many people alter course in their careers, often with disastrous results, simply to escape a bad boss. My decision to become an entrepreneur, for instance, was majorly influenced by some appalling experiences in this respect (made far worse, no doubt, by the distorting mirror ...
