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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 155 with Jim Tam.

Jim brought some fresh perspective when it comes to effective collaborations all about managing your defensiveness.

So you're going to learn one,

by managing your defensiveness is a hidden key

to effective collaborations,

two, the three biggest drivers of defensiveness, and three, how to stay curious instead of furious.

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items

that we reference here, you can find that over at awesome at your job.com

slash app 155.

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and you can hop on board that away. Now here's Jim's story. For about 25 years Jim was a judge dealing with

collective bargaining disputes. He has mediated more school district labor strikes

than any other person in the United States. Now he teaches collaboration

skills in the Talent Development Program at Harvard, the International Management

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