Part 1-Leveraging Good Conflict:
How The Science of Conation Will Enable Your Team to Disagree, Productively. The recent article by Harvard Business Review1, "How to Encourage the Right Kind of Conflict on Your Team," highlights the importance of fostering "task conflict" – disagreements about the work itself – while minimizing "relationship conflict." When owners and their leaders are faced with managing change like growth and exit, we must manage information flow day-to-day. How do owners and their team leaders succeed in having healthy debates without letting them devolve into personal attacks? Conative data provides a powerful [...]
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