Many of the undecided told leaders that if it was the final deal, they would vote yes, but since they knew it would change, they didn't want to go on record giving in at all on taxes.

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"You need management that is comfortable giving up some say, and let's face it, human nature isn't all programmed that way, " says Ed Lawler, a management professor and director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

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