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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 the issue, circumstance, or situation is important enough, and there is enough at stake, people will do what is necessary to open lines of communication and close positional gaps.

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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. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

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Will Economics Finally Get Its Paradigm Shift?

Harvard Business Review

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. The idea of a paradigm shift comes from Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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