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Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs at the National Academy of Engineering. His new book is Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (W.W.

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A difficult colleague may be a warning signal, not the problem. Learn how you can read persistent friction as data about ...