Topic: Managing Conflict
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Moving from Blame to Accountability
When something goes wrong in an organization, the first question that is often posed is, “Whose fault is it?” When there’s data missing in…
Overcoming Organizational Anxiety
Iam working sixty hours a week and don’t see an end in sight.” “If we don’t meet this quarter’s profit projections, heads will roll!”…
The Structure of Paradox: Managing Interdependent Opposites
When faced with a problem, how often do teams within your organization become polarized around proposed solutions that are opposites? For example, one group…
From Event Thinking to Systems Thinking
Your division has been plagued by late launches in its last five new products, and now management has charged you with “getting to the…
Check-in Check-out
Your daughter was sick last night and you didn’t get much sleep. Tony’s car was rear-ended on the way to the office. Vivian has…
Delays-Making the Invisible Visible
At one point in the book The Machine that Changed the World (Womack, Jones, and Roos, 1990), the authors compare the way cars are…
Shifting the Burden Revisited: Turtles All the Way Down
There is an old story about a student who asked his master, “Teacher, what holds up the world?” The teacher paused for a moment…
The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication
Consider any complex, potentially volatile issue — Arab-Israeli relations; the problems between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; the U.S. deficit, healthcare costs, or labor/management…
Creating Business Results Through Team Learning
As of 1993, Sigma Tech (a fictional name) was one of the most successful small corporations in the U.S. The company’s business was both…
Vision Deployment Matrix: A Framework for Large-Scale Change
Vision can be a powerful force for action when it is clearly articulated and there is a genuine desire to bring it into reality.