Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant B. Kim Barnes's unique process of constructive debate shows how teams can create better ideas and outcomes by eliminating obstacles to honest discussion, creativity, and collaboration. In too many organizations, great ideas and unusual solutions can be suppressed, ignored, or attacked. Departments defend their turf, and people choose what is safe over what is better. Bad ideas move forward and good ideas die, which can lead to disastrous results—financial or otherwise. Luckily, there is a workable path out of this dysfunction. Kim Barnes's process of constructive debate shows how to establish conditions that encourage the free exchange, discussion, and development of ideas and eliminate conditions that prevent potentially useful ideas from getting heard. By using this tested model, any company or team can improve outcomes and bring out everyone's best ideas. A constructive debate is one in which a diverse group of individuals can express their ideas, engage others in building on and improving them, explore ideas deeply, and challenge one another's positions in a fair and productive way. In this book, you'll learn a set of behaviors you can model and encourage and a process you can facilitate, lead, or support your client in leading. In this time, where opinions can be tribal and differences can lead to unconstructive conflict, it's important to find ways to build robust ideas through a thoughtful, fair, and inclusive approach.
Sarah Hawthorne is a successful organizational consultant. She has big plans to overhaul Martech Corporation's outdated business model, so she's surprised when the CEO hires an eccentric business guru named Scorpio who claims to be Martech's savior. Scorpio and his cronies plan an executive retreat at a posh Napa Valley resort, and despite her misgivings, Sarah agrees to participate The retreat is a disaster. Scorpio is more of a cult leader than a corporate consultant, and Martech's executive team rebels against Scorpio's intense and inflammatory tactics. They don't realize, however, that he won't be a problem much longer. The next morning, Scorpio is found dead in the sauna. Sarah immediately throws herself into solving the mystery of Scorpio's murder, much to the annoyance of her husband. But soon she unlocks old employment secrets, broken promises, and shady financial alliances, all while fighting off her growing attraction to one of the murder suspects. Scorpio isn't the only one who ends up dead, however, and Sarah's powers of deduction eventually put her in the danger zone. Murder On Retreat, the sequel to Murder On The 33rd Floor, is the second in B. Kim Barnes's series of witty mysteries starring Sarah Hawthorne.
Based on Kim Barnes bestselling book Exercising Influence, this Self-Study Guide shows you how to reflect on your “career” as an influencer and provides you with a structure for further growth and the development of your influence skills. Once you complete this guide you will have the basics needed to build relationships that will garner positive results in and outside your sphere of work. Step by step the Guide will help you discover how to: · Apply the concepts and tools to an upcoming influence opportunity · Clarify the information by applying each chapter’s ideas to a real situation · Think through important influence opportunities · Journal personal reflections about your growth as an influencer and leader
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