Managers: You’re not a BFF or a therapist. This is how much you should know about your employees’ personal lives
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Managers have no business snooping around their workers’ privacy, which does not interfere with their willingness or ability to show an interest in their well-being, engagement, career satisfaction, morale, and performance.
One of the unexpected disadvantages to the evolution of leadership, from more autocratic, tyrannic, despotic, and top-down during more nepotistic, plutocratic, violent times, to more democratic, empathetic, considerate, and inclusive in the best of times, is the common tendency to mistake leaders for our friends.