Failing to Enlist Allies from Day One
Firstly, you can enlist allies at any stage in your career – so many of us did not know about enlisting allies back on 'Day One'!
So, whether 'Day One' or 'Today', how do we go about enlisting allies?
Building rather than leveraging relationships
Here’s the pattern we’re talking about:
We build wonderful, trust-filled relationships.
We nurture and take care of them.
And we never, ever, leverage these relationships – somehow it feels like ‘using’ or ‘taking