Embracing Tension
Lots of authors are extolling the virtues of conflict these days, including Terry Paulson in an article in Associations Now (he’s also speaking at the ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting in Chicago). He talks about mana ...
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Trust and Speed
In Associations Now, Newton Holt interviews Stephen M.R. Covey (son of the other Stephen Covey), who has a book out about trust in the business world. I particularly liked his response to Newton’s question about how to t ...
5 Ways to Have Your Conflict at Senior Team Meetings
1. Tell the TruthIn most meetings there is what we say, and then there’s what we’re thinking in our heads. Usually the latter has much more volume—and often more wisdom—than the former. Now, I still think we should keep ...
Senior Team Conflict
Regular readers of my blog should be aware that I’m a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s writing. Perhaps his most famous book is The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and I especially like it because of the central role conflict ...
How Successful Leaders Think
I hate it when the next month’s HBR comes out before I’ve read the good articles in this month’s! So I’m busy reading these days. The one article that is a “can’t miss” in the June edition is by Roger Martin, titled “How ...
Generational Conflict
Thanks to Jeff for pointing me to a great blog post by Tammy Erickson about conflict between Generation X and Baby Boomers. I had missed the PBS documentary called “Boomer Century,” that aired in March, but apparently it ...
You Don't Always Have to be Right
Another article in Associations Now this month covers a series of “mindsets” that futurist John Naisbitt is writing about. They are lenses for interpreting the world, and he recommends leaders use many of them, rather th ...
You Don’t Always Have to be Right
Another article in Associations Now this month covers a series of “mindsets” that futurist John Naisbitt is writing about. They are lenses for interpreting the world, and he recommends leaders use many of them, rather th ...
The Next Level of Teambuilding
Scott Briscoe in Associations Now interviewed Deborah Ancona, an MIT Management professor, who has a new book out about teams. I had heard of Ancona only in an article in HBR about distributed leadership, but I really li ...
Conflict and the New Workplace
Thanks to Greg Melia for his excellent comments on my post about Good and Bad conflict. I continue to see people writing about it this way, and I’m beginning to think I need to start writing something about this (oh no! ...