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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model.

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

I profiled Wooden as a role model who we can all learn from in my book Fired Up or Burned Out. In John Wooden’s honor, I’m posting the following excerpts from my book: Connection and the Legend So often in life, good things bloom from the seeds of hardship.

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Two Books to Better Organizational Results

Kevin Eikenberry

Acting Up Brings Everyone Down: The Impacts of Childish Behavior in the Workplace by Nick McCormick I hesitate to call this book cute, even though it is, because calling it that would mask its value. The whole book can be read in a very short time (only about 90 easy reading pages), but the lessons will last far longer.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open. However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation. Systematic and Open to Possibility: The complexity of our organizations requires that you support some systemization within them. It is also important that your attention to being systematic be teamed with an ability to being open to possibility for new ways of doing things.

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Viva Chile: Leadership and the Rescue of the Miners

Next Level Blog

I remember I cried when the camera caught the first glimpse of the chutes on the command module opening and the crew members made radio contact with mission control as they floated down to the ocean recovery zone. Accept Help:   The rescue operation appears to have been a model of private and public sector cooperation and coordination.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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