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Reworking my service blueprint for a banking onboarding flow before Friday's exec review — would love a second pair of eyes on the swimlanes. Am I over-complicating the back-stage?
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"The next most important thing that I did was I didn't negotiate with myself before I negotiated with them. I think we do it a lot, where we go, what do we need to make this work? And we look at it and we go, oh, that's too much, they'll never go for that. I'd better tone it down to something that doesn't look so outrageous. And then you take that in, and they negotiate you down even further, and you end up with not enough. So I wrote down what I thought I needed, and I went and I asked for that. And I didn't get that, but I got a good chunk of it."
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