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Summary.
When Anika, the chief marketing officer of a staffing organization, learned that her boss had unexpectedly resigned and her coworker, Charles, had been promoted from chief operating officer to CEO, she was dismayed. She and Charles had a long history of disagreeing on key issues at work, so she worried that she’d endure tense relations, micromanagement, or, worse, demotion or dismissal.