If you haven’t seen the film Election, directed by Alexander Payne and starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, go get it on Netflix and stream in right now. The script, from the movie released in 1999, shows the results and feedback loop that power, strategy and the ruthless pursuit of Read more…
There’s a bind for supervisors in the workplace, when they act as mediators, inserting themselves into conflicts between their employees, whether they want to insert themselves, or they are compelled to insert themselves. When one employee won’t move, shift or change their approach to conflicts with their co-workers in any Read more…
When you build a product, create a service or develop a process, the temptation (whether at scale or not) is to pursue the acceptance of the masses and be for everybody. When building, (and planning to build) the discipline is to be targeted and to pursue the special and the Read more…
Every day is Election Day, when you are making choices about how you respond (or don’t) to a conflict or dispute. Avoidance means you’re voting with your emotional feet to keep going and not confront. Attack means you’re voting with your emotional feet to engage the other party in a Read more…