We're the only two people of color in leadership at our company and we've never directly talked about it but I can feel how we both navigate differently - they're much more diplomatic and careful while I'm more direct and it sometimes feels like we're working against each other instead of together. I don't want to assume what their experience is but I also don't know how to bring this up without it being weird.
More people experience this than they realize.
You and the only other person like you at the top cope so differently it's pulling you apart instead of together.
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