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Client communication · Managing emotional clients

Your client's CEO is furious about a critical but factually accurate story. They want a retraction demanded and the reporter blacklisted. Walk me through the conversation.

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First, absorb the anger without endorsing the plan: 'I understand — let's go through the piece together.…

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