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    How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
    How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
    How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
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    How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight

    By Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jean L. Kahwajy and L. J. Bourgeois III

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    Conflict in the workplace is natural—and even necessary. Colleagues who challenge one another's thinking tend to consider a richer range of options, which ultimately leads to better business decisions. How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight reveals the tactics managers can use to ensure that these healthy back-and-forth moments remain constructive and focused on the issues. Managers who embrace this kind of positive conflict will find increasingly engaged, productive teams—and discover that they themselves are better positioned to lead these teams to success. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateFeb 6, 2009
    ISBN9781633691285
    How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
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    Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

    KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT is the S. W. Ascherman Professor of Strategy at Stanford, a highly cited author, and the co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Her research focuses on strategy, strategic decision making, and organizational design in highly uncertain markets. She is the coauthor of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, winner of the George R. Terry Book Award. A fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative, she is also the first author featured in Harvard Business Review’s On Point collections. She holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in computer science, and a Ph.D. from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.  

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