Summary: <p>Many of us have been told that "being true to ourselves" is a key to success. But in the workplace, being "authentic" might actually wreak havoc. "The more one looks at the notion of authenticity, the more one realizes, or the more <em>I</em> realize, it's a crock and it's nonsense, and it's more likely to be self-destructive than value-added," says <a href="http://executive.mit.edu/faculty/profile/77-michael-schrage" target="_blank">Michael Schrage</a>, contributor to the <a href="https://hbr.org/2015/10/when-authenticity-does-more-harm-than-good" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review</a> and a research fellow at MIT Sloan School. So if you shouldn't be your utterly unfettered authentic self, what should you be then?</p> <p> </p>
