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2.CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH

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Remember that the people you work with are not workers or helpers or assistants or trainees or lackeys or gofers or employees or inferiors or superiors. They are people. And if you think of them as people — separate, important, unique human beings — they will sense it and will respond by trusting you, by helping you, by accepting your suggestions, even by forgiving your blunders.

Indeed, if people believe that you are acting in their best interests, they will support your actions, even if what you are doing is not in their best interests.

But if people do not believe what you are doing is in their best ...

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