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If you dread the thought of being at your job on your next work anniversary, start looking now. You’ll be better prepared when the time comes.

…research shows that good bosses are especially crucial to employee performance in otherwise lousy workplaces.

…it is less work and more fun to give bosses the lion’s share of glory and guilt.

Psychological safety is the key to creating a workplace where people can be confident enough to act without undue fear of being ridiculed, punished, or fired – and be humble enough to openly doubt what is believed and done.

…the best bosses ‘let workers work.’ – Jeff Pfeffer

…if you want your people to have more time to do work, be treated with dignity, and be proud to work for you, then start and end meetings on time.

If you are a boss, protecting yourself from intrusions may be a lost cause… management work requires dozens – sometimes hundreds – of brief and fragmented tasks each day.

Work is more fragmented now because… e-mails and instant messages mean we are bombarded with important – and more often enticing and trivial – interruptions from anywhere in the world at any time.

…as a boss, the more trivial and unnecessary intrusions you can absorb, the more work your people will do and the less their mental health will suffer.

[Good bosses] protect their people from enemies up the chain, especially bosses who undermine their charges’ ability to get work done and make them miserable.