Case summary:
Person C is a skilled architect accountable for managing a group of designers in the E international. The personality of person C helps him to hike the company ranking and his intimidating style of communication starts to make problems and ability to get outcomes.
After that he recognized his review of performance that complaints about him was raising. Then person C starts to reconsider how he behaved with his peers and employees. He starts to use certain techniques studied in the education of executive course.
To discuss: The behaviours mentioned in this case and whether it damaged the work relationship of person C, the reason why the manager behave in this manner and the consequences of this behaviour on his subordinates and peers.
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