What I Wish I Had Known About Dealing with Difficult People

6 min readDec 14, 2019

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And 5 strategies I shared with a 30 year old colleague.

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A junior colleague asked for help in correcting a vexing problem. In essence, she felt that her boss and team unjustly perceived her as whiny, competitive, angry and unwilling to receive feedback from others.

Alix Nichole

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I write about the spiritual and sometimes practical components of universally human experiences - so pretty much anything is game.

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