How do you deal with a difficult manager? The Partner of my fund has ever-changing expectations, despite communicating several times

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I would maybe start documenting, and when things change bring it up. The big trick is going to be how you bring it up though. It might finally get through to them how hard it is to follow, or it might come off the wrong way and then that can be its own problem.

I’ve started doing that recently!

Any other tips that come to you, please do share

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