Support from your peers is something you need to earn by looking at what’s important to them. The person that is showing you resistance may have a great idea you can help facilitate and quickly he goes from rival to ally. I would like to add that being an effective leader will directly depend on how you are received at the peer level today and earning their respect is essential.
Blake Thomas in an interview with Maria Dubov at MMD and a good friend of mine.
He was just in town last week, it was first time I’d seen him since I’d moved to Portland from Chicago.
Read the whole interview here: