by Jamie Notter | Jun 11, 2007 | Conflict, Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Scott Briscoe in Associations Now interviewed Deborah Ancona, an MIT Management professor, who has a new book out about teams. I had heard of Ancona only in an article in HBR about distributed leadership, but I really liked it, so I was glad to see she’s got a book...
by Jamie Notter | May 2, 2007 | Conflict, Culture, Leadership, Managing People
Thanks to Greg Melia for his excellent comments on my post about Good and Bad conflict. I continue to see people writing about it this way, and I’m beginning to think I need to start writing something about this (oh no! Not another book!). The most recent example is...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 25, 2007 | Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
Here is some more from that Sloan article that talks about good conflict and bad conflict. Although I don’t think their distinction between “task” and “relationship” conflict was clear enough, that wasn’t the main point of the article. Most of it was about perceptions...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 24, 2007 | Conflict
I am seeing more and more about conflict in the mainstream business press, which is a good thing. Specifically, a popular dichotomy is emerging: there is good conflict and bad conflict. The “good” conflict is typically very rational. Some call it “task” conflict and...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 16, 2007 | Conflict
I’ve been working with a group where the level of trust is very low. During a session with this group, the leader of the group asked everyone else if they were willing to work with him. One person responded with, in effect, “If you can guarantee me that you won’t...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 13, 2007 | Change, Conflict, Managing People
Larry Bossidy has the cover story in HBR this month about what leaders expect of you and what you should expect of leaders. Bossidy wrote the book, Execution, with Ram Charan. He is a former exec, and his style is very simple and direct, which is an interesting change...
