Frictionless Working Relationships Are Not About Chemistry

Frictionless Working Relationships Are Not About Chemistry

June 23, 2026 · 5 min

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Leslie Ferry discusses the importance of understanding colleagues in working relationships rather than relying on personal chemistry.

We rarely choose most of the people who depend on our work. They arrived through a hire, a reorganization, a project assignment, or simply because your roles intersect. And we do not feel the same way about all of them. That is completely normal and fine. In this episode of The Career Edge, Leslie Ferry makes the case that what actually matters in a working relationship is not whether you like someone. It is whether we understand them. And that understanding, of how they are wired, what they ...

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