Its not personal, its business

I think I've determined the source of my angst at work. It truly comes down to one person in particular, and not the person you might think. Its someone who has no authority over much of anything, but tries to act like they do. Saying rude and sarcastic things that are really just inappropriate and rude. It gets to me, but I'm trying to remember something that my old boss told me last week.

"It's not personal, its business."

Its really hard for me to grasp that idea because to me it is personal. I spend majority of my waking hours at work, why wouldn't it be personal? But I guess it really is business. Most of my tumultuous work relationships really come down to a power struggle. One that if I stop trying to fight it and let the person have their perceived "power" could quite easily be solved. I, however, am bull-headed and stubborn, so don't like to let people have their way especially if there is principle involved. "They shouldn't get to do something or act a certain way, so I won't let them" is how my thoughts go. I really need to learn to let go, and I'm hoping I can learn more how to do this in business school. I think it will be a personal journey as well, but hopefully some of the leadership training will play a key role in helping me separate personal from business (if that's even a valuable thing to do).

Let me know if you have thoughts on this topic. I really am interested to hear other people's insights.

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