I was leading a team of professionals developing a new solution for my client and had one engineer who seemed to argue about anything that wasn’t his idea, even though many of the ideas were being requested by the client. After many frustrating interactions and team meetings, something had to change. He seemed to feel…
OK……this may be a bit of an overstatement. A better way of saying this may be that I love what happens to relationships and organizations when conflict is exposed. Let me explain. When I was younger, I tended to avoid conflict. If a conflict arose, I would try to avoid it or gloss it over….
Jim Collins, in his iconic business book “Good to Great”, discusses getting the right people on the bus and in the correct seats. That’s all well and good but, before we do this, can we afford to add new employees right now? The answer to this question resides within another question. What is the business…