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“So, tell me about your childhood.” This may seem an odd question to ask a manager—any employee, really—within the confines of company walls. But it’s a commonplace one at Microsoft. Not that people walk around carrying boxes of Kleenex and confessing their innermost thoughts to their cube mates. Yet it is often one of the first things I ask when I walk into my clients’ offices.
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© 2007 Anna Rowley
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Rowley, A. (2007). Introduction. In: Leadership Therapy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09578-7_1
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