People Are Messy. But You Can Work Well With Others Anyway.

Working well with others requires accepting their messiness and oursAt work, that need to simplify the stories is in overdrive. We all need colleagues we can rely on, whose judgment we trust, whose commitment matches our own. Work relationships are more fragile by nature. Because work relationships are largely unchosen, and are high stakes, we are even more likely to shorthand the stories. That doesn't mean work relationships are doomed to fail.