When your organization has faced serious and urgent questions in the past, how has it responded? Do these practices serve you in the new economic environment? Right now your leadership may require a combination of learning new skills and approaches and also unlearning previous behavior.

Many of us do not like conflict and we do what we can to avoid it. We may feel that conflict will damage relationships. While this is true of personality-focused, mean-spirited attacks, conflict is essential when it is limited to concepts and ideas.