Shakespeare famously wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” It’s a brilliant line—but in the modern workplace, it can become a quiet excuse for a major cultural mistake: treating our colleagues as actors in our personal narrative. In the rush of back-to-back meetings and urgent Slack pings, it’s easy to cast our coworkers into fixed roles: the "roadblock" in Legal, the "hero" who stayed late, or the "invisible extra" who just needs to send