Lawrence Cook: Reaching a consensus with 'difficult' colleagues

Why do other people in meetings insist on being contradictory or just not being constructive? Running a business is hard enough without the management team struggling to get on the same page. Have you ever been in a meeting with your colleagues and wondered sometimes if they took the pill labelled ‘let's be difficult today'? The truth is that it is unrealistic to expect a group of people to all be thinking in the same way at the same time and surely the differences are what make a team stronger? Yes and no. Unless a group of two or more people can agree on an objective, strategy an...