When One of Your Employees Is Working Against You

HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR On Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts—hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. Some employees don’t just cause problems—they create them on purpose. Subversive employees manipulate office politics, undermine colleagues, and make themselves look indispensable—all while frustrating the people…

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Will Shark Tank do the job?

The work of Shark Tank is to offer clients, audiences and emotion to the budding entrepreneurs, and of course, the sharks invest their time, energy and money to help them be ready for their “moment under the sun.” However, with only 237,000 spectators for the first episode of this current series, I am disappointed by…

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