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Today's leadership hack comes from Julie Godin. She is the Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at CGI. Her leadership hack is to find a win-win situation.
If you're not familiar with the company, Julie sets the strategic direction for CGI, a consulting company with more than 88,000 employees—a massive, large organization. It’s true that leaders at all stages of their careers are going to be dealing with negotiation. Julie's best piece of advice is to always find the win-win situation. This is about finding common ground.
It sounds easy to say, right? Find the win-win. But really, what Julie's saying here is that it's about compromise. If you start getting angry, if you lose your composure, you've automatically lost. That's automatically not a win-win.
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