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Maintaining good relations with your boss is absolutely crucial, as has been demonstrated by the unfair dismissal case in Melbourne, Australia, where Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the Herald Sun, sued News Limited for sacking him 15 months before his three-year contract was due to expire. One of the reasons for his dismissal was the alleged poisonous relationship he had with his boss, Peter Blunden, the managing director of the Herald and Weekly Times, with whom he is said to have clashed from day one.
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Baker, T. (2015). Nine Tools to Build Personal Power. In: The New Influencing Toolkit. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137470164_5
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