1081: How to Deal with Credit Stealers at Work with Andrew Palmer

2025-08-04

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 stealer2) The unintentional ways people steal credit3) Why crediting others makes you more credibleSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1081 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT ANDREW — Andrew Palmer writes the Bartleby column on the workplace, and is the host of “Boss Class”, The Economist’s lim...

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

Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1081 for clickable versions of the links below.

— 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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