There’s an awful lot of fake outrage out there. In the parlance of political writing—whether of the right or the left—the vast majority of what the web based and traditional media decides is worthy of reporting on and what isn’t, is driven by what type of emotional response it can Read more…
Expectations are the mother’s milk of conflict. They serve as the fuel that allows a conflict to grow, past the point of employing tactics that would be considered “reasonable” to the point of needing tactics that are unreasonable. Expectations fuel conflict because they go hand-in-hand, with assumptions. Every party in Read more…
Unpacking assumptions is the first piece of the engagement process with conflicts in your workplace. It’s hard enough to be confronted by the results of our faulty assumptions, but it is even more difficult to begin to unpack beliefs, values and perceptions that we have held for years. In a Read more…
The stories that we tell other people in our lives (the cook, the waitress, the kids, partner, the co-workers, and the judge) tend to be of a different variety. They tend to be “me” focused (as in “Can you believe that THIS thing happened to ME!”). They tend to be Read more…
Earbud_U, Season Two, Episode # 2 – Chris Strub, Social Media Maverick, Social Good Trailblazer, Finding the Niches Where Helping Meets Digital [powerpress] As an entrepreneur, the one thing that I struggle the most with—along with everything else—is the word “no.” When I say “no,” when I hear a “no,” Read more…
The stories we tell ourselves about conflicts and our roles in them, tend to have three characteristics in common: They tend to be incredibly personal, They tend to begin with the word “I,” They tend to primarily be focused on self versus others. And, with the rate of personal self Read more…
Money is an inescapable part of life. A currency’s ups and downs, regulate how the whole country under it operates, how its people live and work, and how that country operates in the international sphere. Money is one concern that both the rich and the poor have together. The poor Read more…
There are four seasons in the United States. The second season is the one where not much work gets done. Deals don’t get struck between the months of June and September. People take vacations. Families try to get away. I’ve heard the same thing happens in Europe. During the month Read more…
There are 5 workplace conflict stories that we tell ourselves. They are based on the five typical stories that people have always told themselves, whether camped around a fire in the woods, or in the dark watching a Hollywood blockbuster. Except that these stories have different acts, because…well…they happen at Read more…
In every industry, there are zeros and there are ones. Zeros have the advantage, because they understand something fundamental that all of the ones who follow them do not: Innovative thinking, processes, relationships and much more, lead to dominance in the marketplace of ideas, products, processes and services. Peter Thiel, Read more…