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5-Step Alligator Repellant

Find out how to win over your toughest critics.

Are you familiar with that person in a meeting who lies in wait for a chance to attack any new idea? Our colleagues, Gerry DeSeve and Robert Fryer, at Management Insights are.

DeSeve and Fryer offer five steps to winning that person over. READ MORE.

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.