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(redirected from smoothing ruffled feathers)

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Colin Powell and the State Department, and other professional diplomats, had to bring up the rear, effecting compromises and smoothing ruffled feathers caused by Washington's imperial insouciance to the views of others.
Find a person on your staff who is good at smoothing ruffled feathers, working through conflict, and able to make suggestions to solve such situations.
 
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