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Instead of “complaining,” as his boss would put it, the employee decided to apply a “Show, Don't Tell” approach. He would simply nod in silence during these meetings when his boss would set unrealistic expectations before going off and doing research to demonstrate this thinking.
For some, this might seem like wasting time, but for the author, it was a necessary step to shed the false reputation of being a nuisance and develop a new persona as someone who understood the facts of the situation and could speak to them with data.
After a few rounds of coming to subsequent meetings with proof that his boss's so-called “plans” could never work, his boss had no choice but to pay more attention to what was actually doable for his team.
The key to pulling this off was that the employee never made it personal. Given that his boss clearly had the kind of fragile ego that overshadowed his sense of reason, all the author needed to do was take all emotion out of the equation. By limiting his input to a data-driven approach, there really was not much his boss could argue with after seeing the facts.
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A group of coworkers reviews an employee's presentation in a conference room.
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Stopped arguing with my micromanager boss and started doing this instead. The results were instant.
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A businessman presents to a team of coworkers in a conference room.
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A businessman presents to a team of coworkers in a conference room.
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