The elephant in the boardroom how leaders use and manage conflict to achieve greater levels of success

In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict. This book explores the unique and challenging relationship that leaders have with conflict, and offers the know-how needed to use conflict as the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Papke, Edgar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pompton Plains, N.J. Career Press 2016
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:In a survey of more than 4,000 CEOs, executives, and managers, more than 90 percent admitted they were uncomfortable confronting or engaging in conflict. This book explores the unique and challenging relationship that leaders have with conflict, and offers the know-how needed to use conflict as the engine of innovation and creativity. As a result, you will learn how to act courageously and be better equipped to lead and win in today's complex and turbulent world. It will help you: better understand the unique relationship leaders have with conflict; gain the self-knowledge required to confront conflict and attain higher levels of leadership performance; learn how to foster cultures of openness and higher accountability; identify the sources of dysfunctional conflict to create constructive change effectively; learn to use a proven, seven-step model for effectively managing and leveraging conflict. --
Physical Description:1 volume illustrations
ISBN:9781632659835