My VP of Sales and I have completely different management styles and we're both reporting to the CEO and trying to build culture but we're giving people mixed messages about everything from meeting etiquette to how we handle failure. People have started playing us against each other and I think we look like we don't communicate and I don't know how to fix it without throwing him under the bus.
More people experience this than they realize.
You and another leader clash on how to run things, and your people are getting mixed messages and playing you against each other.
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