Nobody gets along with everyone, and we’ve all got stories of coworkers, employees, even bosses who stabbed us in the back and generally made our lives miserable. Well, this is how you must handle your enemies.
Don’t react to words, actual or rumoured: Even if they climb all the way up to your boss and back down to you again, just let it go. Words really can’t hurt you. And if you can be the bigger person —just take it and walk away.
Get over yourself: Business isn’t about you, the other guy, your relationship, or who wins and who loses. Business is about business, and the two of you are presumably paid to do a job. So put your big boy or girl pants on, let a little air out of that overinflated ego of yours, act like an adult and do your job. Really.
Ignore them: Don’t “fall in the trap”, don’t get involved in small fights; remember that the excesses of your enemies should be like “the buzzing of flies” as Mika Waltari put it in his book The Egyptian.
“Making peace” with some people is a waste of time: It is strange, but, the more you do to fix things… the worse it gets. I don’t know why, but this is usually true. Maybe because that attitude on your part stirs up more envy and augments the insecurity of the enemy. That’s why you shouldn’t waste your energy trying to fix things with some people.
Calm the game down: Be the mature one here. As the saying goes, time heals everything, and additionally, as Spanish Nobel Prize Camilo José Cela said, usually “the person who lasts the longest, wins”. Don’t fight.
