Who To Trust At Work?
Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work – the Scorpion, the Fox, or the Wolf? Part 1. When I was younger, my future wife and I decided to hike off the trail between two mountain lakes in the high country of...
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Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work Post 2 While Silicon Valley is best known for their technology companies – Google, Yahoo, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Facebook to name a few, the Bay Area is...
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Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work? Part 3 Vijay did not think much of it when the lead scientist asked him to change the method used to track the inventory of a new product under development. The...
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Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work Part 8 Let me be clear about one thing: the Scorpion is not evil, just inflexible. I use Scorpion as a description of a type of behavior to help me figure out a...
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Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work Part 12 In the last post, I shared stories of people who had negative experiences dealing with a Fox. While a Fox can talk you into anything, the great weakness of the...
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Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work Part 13 So far, in this chapter, I’ve described two types of untrustworthy people: The Scorpion who will “steamroller people” in pursuit of his personal vision, and The...
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Chapter 4: Who To Trust At Work Post 15 In the last post, we met Harold T Lobo, a CEO who abolished his parking space and made coffee every morning for the office. But make no mistake, Harry set a...
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Chapter 5: The Pivotal Role Of Circumstance Part 13 In the previous part of the chapter, we looked at Mary’s experience as a newbie out of grad school. Like many people in their first corporate...
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