The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value by Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer makes “a convincing and counterintuitive argument that instigating dissent, if done selectively, can produce big results,” says a review in Publishers Weekly.
Backed by real-world expertise and original research, these in-demand consultants reveal that, contrary to popular belief, happy employees aren’t necessarily the most driven employees; in fact, in a culture of harmony they often grow complacent and unproductive.
According to Joni and Beyer, great leaders meet this challenge head-on by instigating and overseeing right fights, company-wide tensions that, when channeled properly, can create breakthrough performance, meaningful innovation, and lasting value. The authors’ fundamental premise: A certain amount of struggle and stress energizes organizations and individuals and leads to optimal execution. In fact, all great leaders use alignment and conflict in balanced measure to drive exceptional results over time. Alignment is extremely important – but it’s only part of the story. Once people are aligned and share high trust, they are then in a position to fight for what really matters, in a noble and high-minded way.
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