Want to improve your work relationships? Try this

When building relationships, at work and beyond, most people search for deep commonalities. That may be wrong. It is undeniably true that interpersonal chemistry exists between people who are similar in important ways, particularly in values, which represent our most treasured ideas about what is good in the world. But if we limit ourselves to relationships with others who share our core values, we cut ourselves off from most of humankind, the vast majority of whom are pursuing good values, even if those values do not match our own. There are real benefits to connecting with others whose wo...