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Middle managers frequently refuse adult workplace duties

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Leadership often involves an intense psychological refusal to actually lead. Many supervisors suffer from an institutional immaturity where they dodge accountability, blame subordinates for inevitable failures, and desperately cling to the illusion of authority without ever shouldering the terrifying burden of actual responsibility.

Middle managers frequently refuse adult workplace duties
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