
10 Best Books for Overcoming People-Pleasing at Work
I said yes to everything for thirty-four years. Not dramatically. Not in a way that anyone noticed, which is the trick of people-pleasing — it looks like being.

I said yes to everything for thirty-four years. Not dramatically. Not in a way that anyone noticed, which is the trick of people-pleasing — it looks like being.

There's a specific moment at work that I think about more than I should. It was a Wednesday — last year, sometime in November — when a parent came into my.

Last year, I had to tell my manager that a project she championed was failing. Not slightly behind schedule. Failing. The client hated it, the team was.

I was 52 years old when I got laid off from a company I'd given 18 years of my life to. They called it "restructuring." I called it being escorted to the.

I stared at the offer letter in disbelief. $185,000 base salary, plus equity, plus a signing bonus. For a senior software engineer position at a company I'd.