ESTJ Managing Up: Why Your Boss Feels Threatened
Your quarterly report landed three minutes before the deadline, color-coded tabs marking every requested metric. The data shows your team…
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ENTP Managing Up: 3 Tactics That Actually Work
Your boss sends another email demanding status updates on three projects you already briefed her about yesterday. She interrupts your…
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INTJ Managing Up: When Your Boss Doesn’t Get Strategy
Your manager asks for a detailed project timeline. You send a comprehensive strategic framework that accounts for dependencies, risk mitigation,…
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ISTJ Office Politics: Why Hard Work Isn’t Actually Enough
Forty-two percent of ISTJs report leaving otherwise satisfying jobs because of workplace politics. Not because they couldn’t handle the work….
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ESFP Politics: How to Influence (Without Selling Out)
Office politics often rewards people who mask their authentic reactions and strategically withhold enthusiasm. For this personality type, that playbook…
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ESTP Politics: How to Win (Without Selling Out)
My first political misstep at the agency nearly cost me a client. I called out an inefficient process in a…
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ESFJ Politics: How to Lead (Without Losing Yourself)
You’re the one everyone comes to when they need a problem solved, a team conflict mediated, or a project pushed…
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ESTJ Politics: How to Win Without Selling Your Soul
My creative director once told me that ESTJs were the easiest personality type to read in any meeting. “They telegraph…
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ENFP Politics: How Idealists Really Win at Work
My inbox contained seventeen unread messages from a colleague who wanted me to support his proposal in the upcoming leadership…
