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Addressing this basic but often overlooked need can transform attitudes and improve performance

The people around us are the mirrors in which we see our social reflection, and most of us spend more waking time with the people at work than we do with our families.

You’ve never had a personality conflict. No, really.

Several years ago, I was having an intense conversation with a consultant I respected when he held up his hand to stop me. “No,” he said. “You are not having a personality conflict. As a matter of fact, you have never had a personality conflict in your life.” He said this with a slight smile, …

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Cultivating professional disagreement: How constructive conflict helps leaders build relationships

Every lever of motivation moves in two directions and feeling micromanaged pushes down hard on our autonomy, mastery, purpose and significance levers. No one—not even the micromanager—wants to be micromanaged. Yet micromanagement persists in far too many teams.

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