Relationships
Coordinating People Who Have Been Doing It Longer Than You Have
I ran an association where most members had been there decades before me. What actually establishes authority when seniority obviously does not.
Relationships
Work Relationships
Colleagues are people you are assigned. What that changes, and what it does not excuse.
Relationships
The Conversation I Avoided for Seven Months, and the Four Sentences That Ended It
A recurring problem with someone I liked, and every escalating indirect strategy I tried before the obvious one. It took under two minutes.
Relationships
You Did Not Choose Your Colleagues, and That Changes What You Owe Them
Advice about work relationships is mostly borrowed from friendship, and the borrowing causes specific problems. A different starting point.