Harvard Business Review

How to Say No at Work | Christine Against Work

October 4, 2026ยท11 min
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How to Say No at Work | Christine vs. Work 14 Oct 2020 --- ๐™Ž๐™ช๐™—๐™จ๐™˜๐™ง๐™ž๐™—๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐˜ผ๐™จ๐™˜๐™š๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ! โœจ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend โœจ You may have wondered how to say no to a not-so-great request from your boss. Hereโ€™s how. Innovation Editor Christine Liu tries the one thing thatโ€™s seemingly ingrained in our workplace brains: saying no to your boss or co-worker. Itโ€™s hard no matter how you slice it, but a clean framework can take the emotion out of the statement and soften the blow. In this episode of Christine vs. Work, Ruchika Tulshyan, an inclusion strategist and author of, โ€œThe Diversity Advantageโ€ helps Christine out by presenting a formula and discussing why deflecting a workplace ask can be so difficult. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the worldโ€™s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us โ€” employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect โ€” would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review #careerdevelopment #negotiation #settingboundaries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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