DO CONFLICT BETTER
Be more conflict competent, whether to prevent or manage a conflict, or prepare for the next conflict, even though emotions run high and feelings are hurt.
Category: Conflict Competence
Rob Ford’s simple rules of leadership
Rob Ford, 1969-2016 I wrote a post nominating Rob Ford as a guru during the height of the wreckage he wrought at Toronto City Hall. Rob Ford’s leadership offers all kinds of … Continue reading Rob Ford’s simple rules of leadership
Does regret deserve another chance?
What is it about regret? Regret has quite the reputation. Dictionaries shove regret in with remorse, apology and disappointment. For years I accepted this connotation and have been regret avoidant, determined to live without … Continue reading Does regret deserve another chance?
Is peace a reward for patience?
Is peace imaginable even though it isn’t yet within reach? Is there a vision of what the other side of our current age of turbulence might look like? The entwined German and Israeli flag lapel … Continue reading Is peace a reward for patience?
Trust the tail, the truth is there
“This little guy will save your life.” Between diagnosis and my first mastectomy, my partner Decker put his trust in a ten-week-old puppy named Trail to keep me alive. How’d that go? Well, … Continue reading Trust the tail, the truth is there
I got news that trumped Fear with Optimism
I met the man who owns my left breast. I chatted with a stranger who said he’s a Medical Researcher studying what breast cancers spread to bones. I said I’d donated the tissue formerly known as my … Continue reading I got news that trumped Fear with Optimism
