Whitepapers

Stop thinking about conflict as a fight and start viewing it as a chance to grow and collaborate.   From a young age, most of us were taught that conflict or fighting is bad. But is it really? It can be if the intention of the conflict is self-serving, but if everyone's focus is on the greater good of the company or team, it's an opportunity for growth.  The best…

Rather than discouraging conflict, embrace it. It could make your company better.   We seem to be embroiled in ongoing conflict. Our political discourse has turned ugly, and management teams are struggling to find a collective voice on topics spanning from pandemic response to social injustice.  We've lost perspective on how to have healthy conflict. If we're really going…

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot or will not address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion, you should not be in a leadership role. From my perspective, the issues surrounding conflict resolution can be best summed up by adhering to the following ethos; ”Don't fear conflict; embrace…

The single most important trait for achieving big goals is the capacity to return, again and again, to the task. Life and business are full of unexpected challenges and hardships. To succeed we must embrace our inner warrior. We must find our resilience. Resilience is our ability to pull something from deep within to continue moving forward. That thing within us, is hope. Hope is the magical…

Acceptance, purpose, & flexibility.   For most of us, the idea of resilience conjures up stories of profound heroism in the face of grave injustice — Viktor Frankl surviving the concentration camps or Rosa Parks sitting wherever she damn well pleased. But resilience isn’t always epic. Sometimes it’s quite ordinary—taking criticism well from our spouse instead…