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Rules of Work, 5th Edition
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Rules of Work, 5th Edition

by Richard Templar
June 2022
Beginner
296 pages
4h 11m
English
Pearson Education
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RULE 8

Get people on your side

Suppose you want to get a proposal pushed through at work, or you need to fight for your departmental budget, or a colleague is trying to block your involvement in a project. You can – and should – put together a strong case and argue it calmly and fluently, in order to achieve your aim. But no matter how persuasive you are, how convincing, how well-researched and put together your argument, there’s still only one of you.

What if there were more? It’s got to be more effective to have two or three people arguing the case than just one. Hey, why stop there – maybe five or six people, or more. So go and get them. The more people you have backing you up, the more heft you have behind your arguments. It’s far easier ...

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