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Why Being Nice Undermines Professional Authority

I've built my reputation on being the nice one but I think it's keeping me from being taken seriously as a leader.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Gender and cultural conditioning around agreeableness conflicts with leadership expectations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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