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A good lesson here. "Ultimately, I had to remove the person from the organization and terminate our collaboration a few months after that conversation.", this is something which is obvious that will happen if such behavior is tolerated for enough time to make serious damage. Even though people can change, the damage made cannot be undone easily.

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Indeed, and sometimes the reputational debt is really hard to pay back even when the behaviiors have changed.

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Recovering nice guy here. I really appreciate this. I’ve realized niceness is often about keeping up appearances more than doing good in a gentle way. https://x.com/CraigSmitham/status/1719892117584044373

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Great tweet there, thanks a lot for sharing your experience Craig!

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