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As a manager, you will find yourself in the coaching phase of life, enjoying the dreams of your underlings.
But it's not only journalism that has a culture of taking your underlings down a peg or two.
There is somehow this understanding that you can be this caricature of being bombastic and bullying and treating your underlings — " "As inhuman," a fourth woman, chopping chicken, said.
Plus, there's always the danger that one of your underlings will push too far and bury the whole operation under indictments.
Roger knew from experience that being cut off from your department was a risk, and that the more you knew about what was going on among your underlings the less chance you had of getting unpleasant surprises.
But when I pressed him on other violent outbursts, he responded irritably, "Do we really need to go into every name, every incident?" He said that hitting people is not "sustainable," which struck me as a strange word to use, as if the only issue with beating your underlings was whether such behavior was effective over the long term.
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