Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Is Your Culture Too Nice? - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review

Are you afraid to pick a fight with your workers?

Too many leaders avoid workplace conflict at all costs -- and that's a dangerous habit, writes Ron Ashkenas. A culture of "niceness" tends to produce a mindset in which people are afraid to ask important but awkward questions, or to launch any innovations that might rock the boat, Ashkenas argues. To put things right, start by being brutally honest with yourself -- then gradually extend the same courtesy to your workers.

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Is Your Culture Too Nice? - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review

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