In exciting news for anyone who has dealt with difficult people, a new research study shows that being intimidating, manipulative or selfish does not help people get ahead after all.
And even more interesting is the narrative of who gets the better of the disagreeable boss. Here we are again and again see the rogue, a variant of a jerk who disregards the organization to go their own way. Consider the iconic scenes in Office Space, when Peter Gibbons rebels against his obnoxious boss and comes back to work with a devil may care attitude. Immediately the consultants identify him as someone with top leadership potential.
about how women in academia are viewed. As a graduate student she noticed that junior female faculty tended to be viewed as “as up-and-comers, friendly, and good citizens.” Well it was true that each of them was generally identified as having an Achilles' heel that was likely to hold back their success, such as having had children too young, they were still viewed more favorably than senior faculty.
At first, Berdahl bought into it, but then she noticed the same narrative around senior female faculty when she moved to another university, this time as a junior faculty herself. It led her to want to work with the male faculty, the faculty that seemed to matter. Eventually, at a third university, where she began as junior faculty, she experienced a transition: “the feeling of being a promising “little sister” morphed into being a resented wife, and after tenure, a despised mom...
Upon reflection, I wondered if the crazy bitch narrative does more than simply marginalize powerful women. Doesn't it also reinforce the idea that in order to be successful a woman needs to be a bitch? In its own way it reflects the jerk narrative, that to rank highly in the work hierarchy you need to be selfish and aggressive.Disagreeable behavior ignores key paths to success
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