You’d think powerful bosses-assuming you get along with them okay-would be a boon, championing your team’s ideas and clearing obstacles in your way. But several studies about power, and specifically about the way people act when they feel powerful, suggest that this might not be the case.
The psychological experience of power has been shown to make people:
- more likely to objectify others,
- to view their own input as more valuable than other peoples’, and
- to incline them to rely more heavily on stereotypes.
Combine those behaviors, and you get someone who could be awful to work for.
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