An Open Secret I Wish We Could Talk About - by Deb Liu

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How affinity bias and the fundamental attribution error affect our workplaces

Share A friend and I were once working on the same team for the same manager. We are both minorities in an environment without many minorities in leadership. My friend quipped, “We have to roll heads at every turn, or we're out.” I thought about it for a while, and then I went to our manager and asked him outright if this was true. I cited a few examples of how my friend and I had needed to build massive products in order to get promoted, while others were promoted despite building products that had less impact—or even failed to achieve product-market fit altogether. That was when my…

An Open Secret I Wish We Could Talk About - by Deb Liu

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