This week I am attending the Annual Global Conference of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in San Diego. According to its website: FFI is the leading association worldwide for family enterprise professionals and the organization of choice for the advisors, consultants, educators, and researchers who help perpetuate transgenerational family business wealth. FFI is a great resource for consultants, academics […]
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More on Conflict and Why Your Organization Needs It
I previously wrote here and here about conflict. In those two posts, my goal was to demonstrate the absolute necessity of productive conflict for an organization to thrive and how to practice productive conflict. Recently, I saw this post on the Harvard Business Review website. HBR is an invaluable resource for me and the post […]
Not a Whit’s Worth of Difference
In a previous post, I started a discussion about productive and unproductive conflict, also known as cognitive and affective conflict, respectively. In this post, I want to dig a little deeper into the “good,” productive conflict. Think of all the times you’ve disagreed with another person, whether it was a heated argument or a simple […]
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