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The cynical answer is to get him on your side. Figure out how he is motivated and manipulate the manipulator. That doesn’t mean calling him a jerk back, it mean
by speedplane 8y ago
The cynical answer is to get him on your side. Figure out how he is motivated and manipulate the manipulator. That doesn’t mean calling him a jerk back, it means showing him that you have control of his success.
- b0rsuk 8y agoI think he would beat me with experience. And I have an idea what he wants - he wants to become a team leader, and perhaps replace my current boss as the head of our outsourcing company (several times he openly wondered how it would be to work directly with our client, to be treated better and earn more, and - apparently - half-seriously offered his pal to start a company).
- speedplane 8y agoKnowing what he wants is only step 1. You also have to know what he needs to get there and his own limitations to do so. He has to impress someone to get to where he wants, and he can’t do that simply by being a jerk, he’ll need to show results. You’ll need to figure out what those results are, and how you figure into them.