The book is finally here: Leading Conflict: How To Fight at Work And that's my short answer to, "Where you been, bro?". I've also been making some changes to the blog. I'll still cover lots of hard-hitting advice on workplace conflict, but I'll also be moving outside the squared circle to cover more of the rest of life. I hope you like it and stick around as things develop. Thanks to everyone for sticking with me in the deep rounds. Hope you like the book. If you love it - tell a friend. Be...

“In quiet and untroubled times, it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to....

Change happens slowly, and then… all at once. Some changes are rather small in the large scheme of things. Some changes we choose. We adapt an existing product or launch a new one. We complete a merger or offload a division in a strategic sale. We consolidate our infrastructure or devolve it. Then there’s change we don’t control, but we can directly influence. We respond the ups and downs of the market, make adaptations, and once again find stasis. But sometimes, there’s an absolutely...