Number crunching is as appealing as dieting on celery and carrots, but it shows you where you stand. It beats life on the hamster wheel.
What begins as a trickle of interest could turn into a flash flood. It’s exciting, but don’t get carried away. You need to navigate these wild currents.
A shift in the balance of power puts you in charge. This is your chance to be the role model you wished that you had had.
A colleague gets aggressive and your reaction is to put him in his place. But don’t. Nothing compares to the damage that this person is doing to himself.
You know you’ll be vindicated, but that still doesn’t make you happy about the bad feelings. Remember that feelings change; principles don’t.
Are people dead-set on challenging you? Perhaps. But the constant agitation gets you to exercise the authority you’ve kept under wraps.
