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Thinking Clearly about a Person’s Substance Amidst Stylistic Differences – Ben Casnocha

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How easy is it to separate your experience of someone’s style from their substance? By “style” I mean a person’s personality, work habits, communication patterns, and so on.…

How easy is it to separate your experience of someone’s style from their substance? By “style” I mean a person’s personality, work habits, communication patterns, and so on. By “substance” I mean a person’s overall effectiveness, performance, intelligence, etc. in the workplace. Many professionals assert they can work with and respect the performance of people across the stylistic range — so long as the person is substantive. Successful people who work in teams like to think of themselves as flexible on style, inflexible on substance. But how often is this actually true in the workplace?…

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