The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track [Paperback]

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More productivity. Less drama. It all starts with a healthy conflict culture.

In the modern workplace, conflict has become a dirty word. After all, conflict is antithetical to teamwork, employee engagement, and a positive company culture. Or is it?

The truth is that our teams and organizations require conflict to get things done. But we avoid conflict and build up conflict debt by deferring and dodging the difficult decisions. Our organizations are paying the pricebecoming less productive, less innovative, and less competitive. Individuals are paying, toosuffering from overwhelming workloads, endless drama, and sleepless nights.

InThe Good Fight, Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as alliesinstead of adversaries. Filled with strategies you will use again and again,The Good Fightis an essential field guide for leaders at all levels.

Dr. Liane Davey is aNew York TimesBestselling author, a regular contributor to theHarvard Business Review, and the host of theChangeYourTeamblog. As the co-founder of 3COze Inc., she advises on business strategy and executive team effectiveness and has worked with executives at companies such as Amazon, Walmart, Aviva, TD Bank, and SONY PlayStation. Liane has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology and has served as an evaluator for the American Psychological Associations Healthy Workplace Awards. Liane is married to her business partner, Craig, and they have two teenaged daughters.

In this terrific book, Liane Davey delivers a surprising and bracing message: Conflict is good for us. It can improve performance, help teams bond, and enrich the workplace. What matters is how youl#×