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Better Stakeholder Management: How to Turn Stress into Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. If you’ve been involved in stakeholder management for more than a minute, you’ve probably met a few of these well-meaning, challenging stakeholders. Sound familiar?

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Resistance to Change is Cooperation for Improvement

Mike Cardus

While working, you perceive change on a continuum from cooperation and learning — to resistance and a pain in the ass. . Change happens, and the cooperation/resistance is what you learn from and look for to co-construct what makes change work to improve the organization’s and your viability in the market. .

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Call Them Opposites. Call Them Paradoxes. Just Manage Them.

Lead Change Blog

Many managers share his view. These organizations “get” the power of paradox —opposites, dualities, or polarities—and manage, in fact maximize, the differences inherent in paradox. Individuals practicing paradoxical leadership assure that conflict remains healthy and constructive. But our culture is worse than ever.

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Temp Workers Benefit From A Unionized Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

“Those unions that ‘cooperate’ or ‘partner’ with employers do not achieve wage gains for temps.” ” The study found that when unions are able to work constructively with employers it not only benefits union members but also the economy at large. And there may be a number of good reasons why.

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Conversations On The Circular Economy Shouldn’t Be Rose Tinted

The Horizons Tracker

Cooperation between nations and organizations is vital if society is to tackle the numerous global and systemic challenges it faces. Nowhere is this more evident than in the circular economy, but research from the University of Freiburg highlights how excessively optimistic narratives can undermine such cooperation. Moving forward.

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Has lockdown improved your leadership thinking?

Lead Change Blog

Unfortunately, I rarely see leaders and managers looking up for a view of their direction and keeping busy, busy, busy! Our current health crisis provides an ideal opportunity, and yet I wonder how many leaders and managers are truly taking advantage of it or will continue with it, post-COVID? How productive is it? Does it add value?

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Conflict Is In The Air

Lead Change Blog

Because conflict is (and has been) here to stay, the trick is managing it to a constructive, goal-oriented end that increases performance and advances the greater good. Getting Aristotle’s “rights” right results in managing conflict in a healthy and productive manner. And manage is all we’re going to do with conflict.