You know who they are. They’re the Type As who storm their way through life assuming that their opinion is the only one that counts.
Whether they’re dominating the boardroom, the family dinner table or the church finance meeting, their truth, as they see it, takes precedent, and heaven help anyone who stands in their way.
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We’re all familiar with polarizing politics: splitting complex issues into polar opposite views so that we, the attention-deficit disordered American public, can sleep securely in the knowledge that our side is right; therefore, the other side must be wrong, wrong, wrong.
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After a decade of working with CEOs, sales people, managers and individuals, I can promise you there’s no difference between an in-law squabble and the sales vs. accounting turf war.
The subject matter might be different, but the dynamics of the argument are exactly the same. Both sides think they’re right. Your truth (as you perceive it) is on one side of the argument; their truth is on the other, and no one is willing to budge.
