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Each C needs to know where they stand on this: are you a C with accountability for specific outcomes or are you a cigar-smoking C asked for your counsel with no need to defend your advice or decisions at all? Are you carrying the can or carrying the bags?
Consiglieri
Richard Hytner
He could have invited Gottschaldt and Elberfeld into the partnership, but he felt that it was unfair to charge them a higher fee than they were already paying. Of course, if the partnership was the sure thing he thought it was, that meant he was depriving them of a golden opportunity. If something went wrong with the investments, however, his aunt and his sister and Doc Thompson would never condemn him. He wasn’t so sure about anybody else.
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
It seems, on the surface, to be a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t kind of scenario. If you’re seen as warm but not competent, you elicit compassion but a lack of respect. If you appear competent but cold, you elicit respect but also envy and wariness. And don’t be surprised if your colleagues are only too happy to see you stumble.
No One Understands You and What to Do About It
Heidi Halvorson
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