Workplace Confessions with Kandis O'Brien: "Hogging the spotlight" & "The Firing Squad"

What do you do when your coworker commands all the attention? When upper management sees this one person as the main strategic problem solver and the rest of the team as dispensable task monkeys? Or what happens when a company going about layoffs in the most stressful and embarrassing way possible? We talk with Kandis O'Brien, co-founder of the SIX, an experience design and innovation company.

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