information. If a person doesn’t want to play in a Stage Four culture and you do, you have a choice: do it anyway, or give up. Assuming you want to try, then our advice is to be very careful. The Stage Three mind-set is threatened by triads, so it’s important to think through the risks and rewards. If you want to move ahead, then begin triading with the people you need to work with—probably, people at late Stage Three—to accomplish something remarkable. Prove that Stage Four is more effective in terms of its results, and leverage the accomplishment into an invitation to join the emerging group
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