Conflict with your boss has a clear power structure. Conflict with someone you manage has a clear direction of authority. But conflict with a peer? That's the one nobody really teaches you how to handle, because it sits in the most ambiguous territory at work, two people at roughly the same level, no one with formal authority over the other, and a problem that isn't going away.

Today I'm going to show you why peer conflict is uniquely hard to navigate, what's actually driving it most of the time, and a four-step approach for resolving it without blowing up the relationship, going over someone's head unnecessarily, or letting it fester into something that affects your whole team.

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