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A New Study Says Your Boss Is Hiding Good News From You. Your Inner Critic Is Making It Worse.

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02.08.2026

A New Study Says Your Boss Is Hiding Good News From You. Your Inner Critic Is Making It Worse.

How to be your own biggest advocate.

EXPERT OPINION BY DANIELA PIERRE-BRAVO

Illustration: Inc; Photo: Adobe Stock

Given the choice, most would happily skip the negative feedback from their boss. But what about the positive kind? It turns out we’re getting less of that than we think, too.

New research published this month in Management Science found that 1 in 4 managers withhold performance feedback from their direct reports, even when the news is good. We tend to assume........

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