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How to Develop Empathy for Someone Who Annoys You

Harvard Business Review

Sandra Slager, chief operating officer at MindEdge, an online learning platform for companies and colleges, says that whenever she works with a challenging colleague, she reminds herself to “assume the best” about that person. And I think he realized that we didn’t need to be enemies. We could work together.”

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

In True North Groups , Bill and Doug provide an extremely insightful and practical roadmap for how you can create your own ecosystem for mutual support, feedback, development, and, ultimately, lifelong learning collaborators. What other resources have you found useful in developing this system? It is a very timely book.