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The Career Cost of Being Too Agreeable
Season 1
Episode 5
Published 3 months ago
Description
Lucas and Luna unpack why always saying 'yes' at work quietly undermines your career. They focus on a real case: a mid-level project manager at a Fortune 500 firm who agreed to three extra deliverables in a single week, only to miss her own core deadline. The hosts break down the psychology of approval-seeking, the empirical cost of overcommitment, and the 'Strategic No' framework used by a former McKinsey partner. If you've ever nodded along to a request you immediately regretted, this episode gives you the language to push back without damaging relationships.