What if one of your first assignments at a new job was to fire people? What should you do if the person leading a project you’re on isn’t giving clear direction, demands that you work nights and weekends, bristles at your feedback—and leadership tells you to fall in line? These are two of the five situations that Amy B and Amy G talk through in this episode. They offer advice to the women who wrote in with their questions, with the hope that it will help them and anyone who’s been in a similar situation, or might be one unfortunate day.
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It'S time for Ask the Emmys.
Yay.
One of my favorite types of episodes that we do.
I love doing this.
Yeah, we hear from listeners all the time, mostly through our inbox with questions.
They want advice about a situation they're facing and we always want to help.
And sometimes it leads to an episode idea, but then sometimes we just want to get into the specifics of someone's issue and give them some advice.
Yeah, I always learn on these episodes.
Yeah, you know, I learn what's on people's minds, but I also learn from the process of thinking through an answer with you.
Yeah, like what could be going on?
What could the person try out?
And also, what are we missing?
Because I think sometimes there's cues in the email or in what they say that just makes us realize there's something else going on.
But we're sitting on this wealth of knowledge that is the archive on hbr.org of all of our articles.
You and I get to interact with experts all the time who give this sort of advice.
Yeah, we're like the HBR archive bots.
Yeah.
So should we get started?