Harassers are nice to me
summary
Claim: senior leaders usually don't see harassment because bad actors target people with less power and cultivate friendly cover relationships. Concrete tactics: post periodic Slack messages explaining limits of visibility, hold skip-level meetings and build one-on-ones with juniors, and talk about inequity publicly. Measures of success: three indicators — juniors who know or don't know the leader come forward and direct reports raise power dynamics — and these steps reportably work to surface problems that otherwise stay hidden.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Early career harassment
- 1:05Perfect organization
- 2:07Peter’s manipulative behavior
- 3:10Harassment in senior roles
- 4:12Reinforcing harassment systems
- 5:39Wrong question for managers
- 7:21Easier reporting methods
- 9:44Leaders must seek reports
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