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Communication & influence · Executive presence

You're presenting a workforce-reduction plan to a client's board — headcount, severance cost, and legal exposure — and one director keeps pressing you on whether the numbers are defensible. How do you hold the room?

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You're presenting a workforce-reduction plan to a client's board — headcount, severance cost, and legal exposure — and one director keeps pressing you on whether the numbers are defensible. How do you hold the room?

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