"I just don't know if you can handle conflict," he said in his characteristically forthright style. "You're bright, you have an MBA, you're hard working - these are all good qualities for management," he continued. "But I don't know if you want to handle conflict. I just don't know if you have the stomach for it." I came to realize, as time went on, that in fact it was a challenge many in management shared.

Source: Forbes May 04, 2018 15:45 UTC