Today’s issue of The Globe and Mail (for readers outside Canada, this is Canada’s leading business newspaper) contains an op-ed piece headed Too smart for our own good. The writer’s tongue-in-cheek premise is that we should punish the clever and reward the dumb, which he equates with those who can write and those who cannot [...]

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“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”—Bertrand Russell, author and philosopher

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One of the topics people often ask me about in my manager coaching engagements is how to manage conflict on their teams or in the workplace generally. There are many different types of conflict, not all of which are bad. In fact, healthy conflict born of many people bringing a variety of skillsets and viewpoints [...]

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