Comments on: Leaders and conflict http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/07/25/leaders-and-conflict/ The strategic role of the senior executive Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:13:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Leaders without leadership | Managing Leadership http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/07/25/leaders-and-conflict/comment-page-1/#comment-7529 Leaders without leadership | Managing Leadership Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:43:36 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=564#comment-7529 [...] by Dan McCarthy, author of Great Leadership. This one includes a recent post from these pages on Leaders and Conflict, as well as dozens more from the likes of Wally Bock, Michael Wade, Steve Roesler and many more. [...] [...] by Dan McCarthy, author of Great Leadership. This one includes a recent post from these pages on Leaders and Conflict, as well as dozens more from the likes of Wally Bock, Michael Wade, Steve Roesler and many more. [...]

]]> By: Jim Stroup http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/07/25/leaders-and-conflict/comment-page-1/#comment-7449 Jim Stroup Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:29:03 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=564#comment-7449 Hello Jamie, I'm confident that you enjoyed your vacation far more than you would have these posts hot off the press! Thank you for you kind comments - I look forward to more of your thinking on this topic at your own site. My vote for best line in your comment: "Conflict is both inevitable and good." That's an excellent article title - certainly something about which I hope we hear more from you. Thanks again for your visit and your observations! Hello Jamie,

I’m confident that you enjoyed your vacation far more than you would have these posts hot off the press!

Thank you for you kind comments – I look forward to more of your thinking on this topic at your own site.

My vote for best line in your comment: “Conflict is both inevitable and good.” That’s an excellent article title – certainly something about which I hope we hear more from you.

Thanks again for your visit and your observations!

]]> By: Jamie Notter http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/07/25/leaders-and-conflict/comment-page-1/#comment-7446 Jamie Notter Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:33:17 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=564#comment-7446 Ack! You chose the week I was on vacation to write a series about conflict, my favorite subject! (My Master's is in conflict resolution). I love your points, as usual, and I promise a longer reaction on my blog. But I will emphasize the point about inevitability. Conflict is both inevitable and good. People and systems cannot grow and develop without conflict. True, we often deal with it poorly, so many choose to avoid, but avoiding almost always makes it worse. Thanks for covering the topic! Ack! You chose the week I was on vacation to write a series about conflict, my favorite subject! (My Master’s is in conflict resolution). I love your points, as usual, and I promise a longer reaction on my blog. But I will emphasize the point about inevitability. Conflict is both inevitable and good. People and systems cannot grow and develop without conflict. True, we often deal with it poorly, so many choose to avoid, but avoiding almost always makes it worse. Thanks for covering the topic!

]]> By: Jim Stroup http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/07/25/leaders-and-conflict/comment-page-1/#comment-7443 Jim Stroup Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:15:46 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=564#comment-7443 Hi Wally, I am always revitalized by a review of Mary Parker Follett's writing - she was truly a pioneer - a prophet of management. She was refreshingly open-minded and delightfully experessive, and remains without peer today in many vital subjects. I highly recommend her to practitioners and students of management today. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1587982137/ref=nosim/?tag=managingleade-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This collection of her work</a> is an excellent place to start (see <a href="http://managingleadership.com/blog/2007/01/26/book-review-mary-parker-follett-prophet-of-management/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">my review here</a>). You make an excellent point that conflict, of one sort or another, doesn't merely happen, but is inevitable. So the question isn't how to avoid something that is an inherent feature of the group, but what do do with it. Follett's recommendations regarding that deserve continued study. Thanks, Wally, for this forceful emphasis of this important point. Hi Wally,

I am always revitalized by a review of Mary Parker Follett’s writing – she was truly a pioneer – a prophet of management. She was refreshingly open-minded and delightfully experessive, and remains without peer today in many vital subjects. I highly recommend her to practitioners and students of management today. This collection of her work is an excellent place to start (see my review here).

You make an excellent point that conflict, of one sort or another, doesn’t merely happen, but is inevitable. So the question isn’t how to avoid something that is an inherent feature of the group, but what do do with it. Follett’s recommendations regarding that deserve continued study.

Thanks, Wally, for this forceful emphasis of this important point.

]]> By: Wally Bock http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/07/25/leaders-and-conflict/comment-page-1/#comment-7440 Wally Bock Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:54 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=564#comment-7440 Wonderful post, Jim. You seem to be one of the few people who remember Mary Parker Follett and her work, though she may have been the first management consultant in the sense we use that term today. There will be conflicts any time you put more than one person in a confined space, whether that space is a family, a business or a sports team. The important thing is what happens when there is conflict. Do you recognize it or pretend it doesn't exist? Do you deal with it or let it fester? Wonderful post, Jim. You seem to be one of the few people who remember Mary Parker Follett and her work, though she may have been the first management consultant in the sense we use that term today.

There will be conflicts any time you put more than one person in a confined space, whether that space is a family, a business or a sports team. The important thing is what happens when there is conflict. Do you recognize it or pretend it doesn’t exist? Do you deal with it or let it fester?

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