ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard.
Are you guilty of going along to get along, thinking your team was about to make the wrong decision but not raising your concerns, agreeing with your boss’s ideas when you have better ones, saying yes to an assignment when you’d much prefer to say no?
Today’s guest says this kind of compliance is a bigger problem than we might think in our everyday lives and especially at work. When we acquiesce to avoid conflict or even because we think it will help us get ahead in our…
