# Professor Joe Magee shares tips for navigating leadership transitions in the workplace

1 Faculty News February 22, 2017 ![MarketWatch logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketwatch%20logo.jpg?itok=pHUVfozf)>

Excerpt from [MarketWatch](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-former-cia-worker-left-his-job-over-trump-how-you-should-handle-a-new-boss-2017-02-22) -- "...employees should remember they’re the subordinates, so they shouldn’t make the conversation completely about them and their own needs, [Magee](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/joe-magee) said. Instead, the conversation should focus on what the boss’s priorities are. 'Then you can discuss how you might fit into helping those priorities become a reality,' he said."

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