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It’s not the loud one you need to fear
Everyone assumes the manager who lashes out is the one refusing the blame. Across three studies of 938 supervisors in Germany and the UK, it ran the other way: the leaders who reported treating their people the worst were the quiet ones, the ones who took the failure personally first.
The full episode covers the route that produces it, the one condition that made the link disappear entirely, and what to do instead. Linked below.
📄 Full research article: www.keca.co.uk/articles/vulnerable-narcissism
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Everyone assumes the manager who lashes out is the one refusing the blame. Across three studies of 938 supervisors it ran the other way. The leaders who reported treating their people worse were the quiet ones, the ones who took the failure personally first. They absorb it, it becomes a verdict about the kind of person they are, and then somebody with less power pays for it that afternoon.
So what actually stops that happening?