Comments on: Book review: Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/ Info, comments and musings on company culture, communications and employee hiring, motivation and retention Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:56:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Friday: Wine, Conversation And A Free Book http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54177 Friday: Wine, Conversation And A Free Book Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:30:19 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54177 [...] beyond the bottle of cyber wine, to a good conversation, so I’m going to give away a copy of Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into Strength by Diana McLain Smith to one lucky participant—no matter where you [...] [...] beyond the bottle of cyber wine, to a good conversation, so I’m going to give away a copy of Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into Strength by Diana McLain Smith to one lucky participant—no matter where you [...]

]]> By: Diana McLain Smith » Blog Archive http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54176 Diana McLain Smith » Blog Archive Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:59:05 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54176 [...] has posted a great review of Divide or Conquer. Read what they have to [...] [...] has posted a great review of Divide or Conquer. Read what they have to [...]

]]> By: Miki Saxon http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54172 Miki Saxon Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:57:01 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54172 Hi Ram, good to see you. You make a good point about the positive side of competition, but I think that kind of competition is very different from what tears a relationship to pieces as happened with Jobs and Sculley. I was living in San Francisco then and it wasn't just the two combatants who were bloodied, but everyone around them, even customers. Hi Ram, good to see you. You make a good point about the positive side of competition, but I think that kind of competition is very different from what tears a relationship to pieces as happened with Jobs and Sculley. I was living in San Francisco then and it wasn’t just the two combatants who were bloodied, but everyone around them, even customers.

]]> By: Ram Sharma http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54171 Ram Sharma Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:25:20 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54171 Very interesting review. Its quite ironic, from a student's point of view, conflict is what churns out great pieces of work. For example, when two members of one team are in a conflict with one another, it creates competition. When the competition reaches a pivotal point, both members focus so much on creating the best possible work. This is because they want to look "better" than the other person, so they put 110% of their effort into the task on hand. If we could harness this dedication on a regular basis...school would be much more different! Just something to think about. -Ram Very interesting review. Its quite ironic, from a student’s point of view, conflict is what churns out great pieces of work. For example, when two members of one team are in a conflict with one another, it creates competition. When the competition reaches a pivotal point, both members focus so much on creating the best possible work. This is because they want to look “better” than the other person, so they put 110% of their effort into the task on hand. If we could harness this dedication on a regular basis…school would be much more different!

Just something to think about.

-Ram

]]> By: Mind Dump 06-09-08 « Now! Leadership! http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54174 Mind Dump 06-09-08 « Now! Leadership! Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:30:37 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54174 [...] Book review of Divide or Conquer… These days relationships are recognized as business lifeblood and everyone works to improve them, so Diana McLain Smith’s Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength is right on the money. [...] [...] Book review of Divide or Conquer… These days relationships are recognized as business lifeblood and everyone works to improve them, so Diana McLain Smith’s Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength is right on the money. [...]

]]> By: Miki Saxon http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54173 Miki Saxon Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:22:42 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54173 Tragically, those kind of conflicts do kill companies and are always "the other guy's fault." Perhaps you could give copies of the book to those involved or email reviews to them. Who knows, they might get the hint. Tragically, those kind of conflicts do kill companies and are always “the other guy’s fault.” Perhaps you could give copies of the book to those involved or email reviews to them. Who knows, they might get the hint.

]]> By: Business book reader http://mappingcompanysuccess.com/2008/06/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-54175 Business book reader Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:38:02 +0000 http://www.mappingcompanysuccess.com/book-review-divide-or-conquer-how-great-teams-turn-conflict-into-strength/#comment-54175 I would agree, especially in a fragile economy - relationships are what keep us going in such times. The company I work at is currently having an internal conflict between some of its employees and owners and this conflict is tearing apart the company, bringing in all sorts of bad energy. If we don't resolve our relationship issues, we may not be around next year. I would agree, especially in a fragile economy – relationships are what keep us going in such times. The company I work at is currently having an internal conflict between some of its employees and owners and this conflict is tearing apart the company, bringing in all sorts of bad energy. If we don’t resolve our relationship issues, we may not be around next year.

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