You can overrule co-workers and get them to back down, but ask yourself if their comments are really that off target. They may have hit the mark after all.
Do you believe in what you’re selling? Be honest because your heart has to be in the right place if you want to be successful.
You score, but wonder if you could have driven a tougher bargain. Settle down. Pushing any harder would have been extortion.
A superior will give you the go-ahead but only if you compromise on a hotly contested point. Run it by supporters before you answer.
It’s your job to be upbeat even if some people make fun of it. It’s your can-do spirit that inspires; not critics’ jeremiads.
Take a hotheaded type aside and give him a quick lecture on etiquette. You value his colorful personality but others aren’t so polychromatic in their appreciation.
