Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review. She writes a monthly column on HBR.org, which provides straightforward, actionable advice for managers at all levels. Before working as a writer and editor, she was a consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC, a strategy and organization consulting firm based in New York.

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