The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value

by Joni, Saj-Nicole A.

• ISBN13: 9780061717161
• ISBN10: 0061717169
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

In this sharp critique of conventional management wisdom, a pair of influential consultants argues that executives must learn to create and manage carefully selected tension--right fights--to lead their organizations to peak performance.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Alignment and Tension in Organizational Life	p. 1
Alignment is Not the Whole Answer	p. 3
Three Kinds of Fights Not Worth Fighting	p. 21
“Jack Sparr” Takes on a Right Fight	p. 45
Learn to Pick the Right Fights: The Right Fight Decision Principles	p. 69
Right Fight Principle #1: Make It Material	p. 71
Right Fight Principle #2: Focus on the Future, Not the Past	p. 87
Right Fight Principle #3: Pursue a Noble Purpose	p. 107
Learn to Fight Right Fights Right: The Right Fight Discipline Principles	p. 125
Right Fight Principle #4: Make It Sport, Not War	p. 127
Right Fight Principle #5: Structure Formally but Work Informally	p. 147
Right Fight Principle #6: Turn Pain into Gain	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 193
Tools: Tests for Identifying and Leading Right Fights	p. 201
Is the Challenge Worth a Right Fight? Right Fight Decision Principles—Assessment Tool	p. 203
Acknowledgments	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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