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My boss always takes the credit

My boss always takes the credit

From the course: Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager

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My boss always takes the credit

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- Finally I've got one of the most annoying boss behaviors of all and it's quite common as well, which is bosses who take all the credit for your work. They don't give you any of the credit for what you've done. Very irritating. You could see why they would do it of course, especially if they feel a bit insecure. But it's an awful habit really to try to take the credit for your people. I do always wonder whether their bosses are stupid enough to believe that that boss did all the work but they might be. So anyway, what do we do about this? And I think the first thing is to not give them all the information. Somebody says, how did you do it, they can go, well I don't quite know how I did it. So give them some but not all of the information. So they're informed, 'cause you know they've got to be kept informed, but they can't claim that they actually did it. And if they ask you for all of the information about how you did it, play for time. Just say, oh it's all a bit complicated or I…

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