Creating Healthy Conflict in your Organization
One of the great organizational challenges is creating open debate which is an essential ingredient to think beyond the current reality.
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Leadership Edge – the insatiable appetite for increasing knowledge and perspective
Great leaders balance confidence and conviction with a zeal to learn and a willingness to revisit and reconsider.
Don’t Defend…Change the Conversation
Think of tv shows where the defense lawyer follows the prosecutor’s arguments in the court room. Notice how seldom you see a direct defense of the points made by the prosecutor. Effective defense lawyers change the conversation so that the jury focuses on different points or sees things through different eyes. My observation is that […]
Verbal Brevity = Verbal Effectiveness
Woodrow Wilson famously said about speaking….”If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.” As a rule, the longer one speaks about something is usually a good indicator of the less they know […]