Who has made the biggest difference in the way you communicate with your coworkers/ teammate?

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A partner at a big 4 firm taught me all I needed to know about poor communication and collaboration, so my success has been based in doing the exact opposite.

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Honestly a bad manager I had years ago taught me how NOT to be. And in doing so that really taught me the kind of manager that I did want to be and how I wanted to communicate with my team.

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Are you asking about books/youtube videos? Or are you talking more about career development?

30 years of trial and error

Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten.
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I've had managers who could not manage their way out of a paper bag. They were made fun of by all of the other managers in the organization. Kept their jobs by Brown Nosing and never taking a risk.

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