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Managing Sticky Situations at Work

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<strong>Sticky</strong> Interview <strong>Situ<strong>at</strong>ions</strong> 155Wanda gently but firmly explored ways to get the interview back ontrack. Many candid<strong>at</strong>es would have suffered through the interviewand allowed Janice to probe inappropri<strong>at</strong>ely, but Wanda had too muchconfidence in her work and herself as a scientist to allow th<strong>at</strong> to happen.Wanda chose to say it just right even if she risked losing an opportunityto move forward in the interview process.How do we handle the sticky etiquette situ<strong>at</strong>ions th<strong>at</strong> often come upin the modern workplace? The next chapter explores this question andshows us how Emily Post might say it just right.NOTES1. Joan Curtis, Str<strong>at</strong>egic Interviewing: Skills and Tactics for Savvy Executives(Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000).2. Daniel Goleman, Richard Boy<strong>at</strong>zis, and Annie McKee, Primal Leadership:Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence (Boston: Harvard BusinessSchool Press, 2002), 44.

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