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Conflict

Good leaders balance advocacy and inquiry to resolve conflict

25 May 2008

Striving towards a vision and bringing about successful change is one of the hallmarks of leadership. However, vision equals change and change is often accompanied by conflict and tensions within and between teams. The leaders ability to effectively resolve this conflict and get people to move forward, acting to bring the vision into today is [...]

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Context, Purpose, Drama and Conflict: The secret sauce of great meetings

24 March 2008

Patrick Lencioni author of the numerous books including "Death by Meeting" wrote an interesting article "Avoid ‘Death by Meeting’" which provides some great insights on creating an effective meetings. Patrick describes the two primary reasons meeting are ineffective as..

Meetings lack drama. Which means they are boring.
Most meetings lack context and purpose.

 
Drama and Conflict
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Constructive conflict is essential for creating commitment to decisions

15 May 2007

An article from HBS Working Knowledge “Don’t Listen to ‘Yes’“ where Martha Lagace,talks with Professor Michael Roberto, author of the new book Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer on why it’s essential for leaders to spark conflict in their organizations, as long as it is constructive.
If people smile, nod, and say “yes” at your company, [...]

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