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What does it mean?
A brief statement indicating that dealing with Thatcher was consistently stressful or difficult.
In plain terms
Dealing with her was very difficult and stressful.
What can you take from it?
Interacting with difficult leaders can be consistently stressful.

Where it applies

  • workplace interactions
  • political negotiations
  • personal anecdotes

Putting it to work

  • manage difficult leaders
  • cope with conflict
  • document interactions

Questions to consider

  • How do you cope with difficult leaders?
  • What makes a leader hard to work with?

Another view

This is subjective and may reflect one person's experience rather than her general nature.

More from Margaret Thatcher

  1. What does she want, this housewife? My balls on a tray?

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  2. [She has a] patronising elocution voice [and] neat well-groomed clothes and hair, packaged together in a way that's not exactly vulgar, just low. [It fills me …

    Permalink to quote #113

  3. A pity she did not understand them!

    Permalink to quote #117

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