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Four Myths About Conflict Resolution

Lead Change Blog

I’m no stranger to conflict having grown up in Botswana, a country neighboring South Africa during apartheid, having worked in addictions treatment and marital counseling, and having spent the past 12 years working with executive leaders who often have a very distorted view of what conflict is and how to handle it. Conflict generates energy.

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The Good and Bad of Workplace Conflict

Coaching Tip

Organizations are rife with stories of executives and managers who abuse their power, employees who overstep their authority, and the resulting conflicts that get stuck in downward spirals. Good-hearted people feel better when benevolent cooperation works, but unfortunately, cooperation often fails. Promoting Diversity at Work.

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High-Trust Teams

Coaching Tip

Like all social animals, human beings have an instinctive need to cooperate and rely on each other to satisfy their most basic emotional, psychological, and material needs. The powerful effect of trust is that it enables cooperative behavior without costly and cumbersome monitoring and contracting. .

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Nance MacLeod ( Executive Coach Global ) To choose One Competency I would have to say Emotional/Conversational Intelligence. They can be learned, absorbed, honed.

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Motivating Your Most Creative Employees

Harvard Business Review

Build a team around them: It’s been said that there are “no statues of committees,” but innovation is always the result of coordinated human activity — people combining their diverse abilities and interests to translate creative ideas into actual innovations. How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative.

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business Review

Rather than handpick the usual senior managers, a team called Pathbuilder was formed of a diverse group of insiders to present senior leaders with new ideas. First, and most important, by relying on the self-nomination approach, the company tapped into the hidden energy, diversity, and skills of its employees.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. It’s that time of year again: time for business owners and senior executives to take stock of the past twelve months. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.