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Why work sucks: Your boss is trying to predict threats

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Ted Bauer
Apr 28, 2015
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Employee-manager relationship: challenging. Work: inherent clusterfuck much of the time. Reasons for this: numerous. Some reasons are even rooted in science! Here's one:

"[The brain’s] need [to survive] focuses attention on the sources of danger and on trying to predict where the next threat will appear, on escape or full frontal battle rather than on an…

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