The Diplomat: What Your Team Experiences
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The hardest thing I tell diplomats:
Your neutrality isn’t kindness. It’s protection.
If you never take a position, you can never be wrong. You can never be the reason someone’s upset. You never lose the approval that — somewhere along the way — became the thing you actually manage.
But your team can’t run on “both of you make good points.” They needed a decision, and you gave them a compliment.
Staying neutral feels generous. To the people waiting on you, it lands as abandonment.
Neutral is a position too. It’s just nobody’s.
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