An associate is frustrated and blames you. Be sympathetic. Once this person vents, s/he’ll become reasonable again.
A partner and you don’t see eye-to-eye, but what emerges from the back-and-forth are the best ideas you both have to offer.
The trick to winning cooperation is to agree in part. This allows you to gently nudge people in the direction that you want them to go.
Hoping something unpleasant will go away on its own is wishful thinking. Take the bull by the horns. Matters are less precarious when dealt with head on.
Keeping the peace is beginning to show the strain. Stop trying to preserve something that’s time has passed. Let it go.
It’s unnerving juggling possibilities, but you won’t have to do it for much longer. As soon as one solidifies (May 3d), you can let the others go.
