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    Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength
    Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength
    Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength
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    Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength

    Written by Diana McLain Smith

    Narrated by Marie Hoffman

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    About this audiobook

    Diana McLain Smith addresses key questions about the nature of professional relationships, explaining how companies are irrevocably shaped by positive and negative relationships between colleagues, in a guide that shares strategies for building strong and flexible working relationships that can endure difficult interpersonal challenges.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJun 6, 2019
    ISBN9781469070209
    Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength

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      Practical book on improving relationships in the workplace. The book suggests that performance issues with teams is often about the relationships between people than some operational issue. Suggests that relationships can be improved by discourse analysis married with exploring people's frame of reference to detect patterns, reframing perspectives of the participants, and then reworking interactions to form new, more healthy patterns.