How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
1081: How to Deal with Credit Stealers at Work with Andrew Palmer
30 minutes Posted Aug 4, 2025 at 6:30 am.
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Andrew Palmer discusses what to do when others take credit for your ideas.
— YOU’LL LEARN — 
1) Why no one benefits from credit stealing—including the stealer
2) The unintentional ways people steal credit
3) Why crediting others makes you more credible
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— ABOUT ANDREW — 
Andrew Palmer writes the Bartleby column on the workplace, and is the host of “Boss Class”, The Economist’s limited-season podcast on management. He was formerly Britain editor, executive editor, business-affairs editor, head of the data team, Americas editor, finance editor and banking correspondent, having joined The Economist as management correspondent in February 2007.
• Article: "The Behavior That Annoyed His Colleagues More Than Any Other"
• Podcast: Boss Class
• Website: The Economist
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 
• Study: “Hey, Boss, Please Share! An Exploitative Perspective on Supervisor Idea Credit Taking and Employees’ Reactions” by Dan Ni et al.
• Study: “Dual-promotion: Bragging Better by Promoting Peers” by Eric VanEpps, Einav Hart, and Maurice E. Schweitzer
• Study: “When expressing pride makes people seem less competent” by Rebecca Schaumberg
• Study: “How damaging is shouting ‘Fire’ in a crowded theatre?” by Joshua S. Gans
• Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot
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