How to Turn Your Work Enemy Into Your Work Friend

Behavioral psychologists have known about “the Ben Franklin effect” for decades, but here’s how to use favors to make people like you; and to make yourself like them

Lauren Larson
Forge
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5 min readOct 29, 2019

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IfIf there’s one thing we can learn from HBO’s Succession, it’s that sometimes we must break bread with our…

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Lauren Larson
Forge
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