Unwanted Roles

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Is your job turning into something you don't want? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Francesca Gino, a professor at Harvard Business School. They talk through what to do when your boss gives you duties you dislike, your company is grooming you for roles you can’t see yourself in, or you’ve been offered a different job than the one you applied for.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.4	Today we're talking about unwanted roles with Francesca Gino. She's a professor at Harvard
0:37.4	Business School, and her latest book is Rebel Talent.
0:40.3	Francesca, thanks so much for coming on the show.
0:42.3	It's such a pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me.
0:45.3	Yeah. This idea that people are pushed into jobs that they don't actually want to do,
0:50.3	does that happen often?
0:52.3	It does. And what I find interesting, there is not only resistance to
0:56.7	the new role or the project, but there is resistance to telling the person who proposed it
1:03.2	that you don't want it. We all have this attitude that we need to be the can-do guy, the person
1:08.6	who says yes to the boss. Exactly. You sort of assume that you're going to be liked more if you just go ahead and say it,
1:14.7	but then you take on roles or projects that you really end up hating.
1:20.2	But isn't part of being a good employee and pushing yourself into new territories,
1:26.6	saying yes to those things that you might not think that you like,
1:30.4	but end up advancing you in your career?
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