Lawrence Cook: Reaching a consensus with 'difficult' colleagues

Different ways of thinking

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Lawrence Cook explores how to deal with 'difficult colleagues' and recommends adding Edward De Bono's book Six Hats Thinking to the Christmas list

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...

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