by Jamie Notter | Jul 31, 2007 | Books and Reading, Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
In Associations Now, Newton Holt interviews Stephen M.R. Covey (son of the other Stephen Covey), who has a book out about trust in the business world. I particularly liked his response to Newton’s question about how to talk about trust to utilitarian people who see...
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 | Jun 5, 2007 | Individual Development, Managing People
As promised, here is some more about psychology and business from the Harvard Business Review article by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer about “inner work life.” The article follows in the footsteps of Goleman and his emotional intelligence work by backing up their...
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 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...
