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151 Quick Ideas to Deal With Difficult People
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151 Quick Ideas to Deal With Difficult People

by Carrie Mason-Draffen
April 2007
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 8m
English
Career Press
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66Why an Apology Matters

“Round up the usual suspects.” That line from the beloved movie Casablanca is sometimes the strategy managers rely on to deal with difficult employees. It’s easy to assume they are always at fault when something goes wrong because they are often at fault. Sometimes you will err, though, and when you do, apologize.

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, management guru Stephen Covey labels such mistakes as “withdrawals from the Emotional Bank Account.” They can often be reversed with a simple apology.

“When we make withdrawals from the Emotional Bank Account, we need to apologize and we need to do it sincerely,” ...

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