What About Individuals You Don't Like or Understand? This is the acid test of your interpersonal maturity as a manager. If you rely on your gut to drive your relationships, you'll only feel comfortable with people similar and familiar to you. Human chemistry guarantees that you'll like some people and dislike others. Those you dislike are the ones you avoid when you walk around the office. Perhaps they remind you of someone in your past, but the reason doesn't matter, except that knowing it may help you get over it. Find some way to interact or even work with those you need but dislike. Get to
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