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What to do when your boss plays favorites

Published: 6 June 2016

Karl Moore remembers the moment he fell out of favour with his boss.

He was working as a manager at IBM in Toronto when a new person joined his department. Up until then Moore had been part of his boss’s “favoured inside circle” — but suddenly everything changed. The transferred employee became his boss’s new right-hand person, the outcome of brutal office politics.

“Good news for the team but I was soon put on the bench,” said Moore, now a professor at 69Ƶ’s Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal, Canada. It certainly wasn’t a fun experience — and it definitely made his job harder, he said.

Read full article: , June 5, 2016 

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