Todd: Leaders Cannot Retreat From High-Emotion Workplace Conflict
Jason Todd · The Roles You Played at Home Are Killing You at Work · Jan 18, 2021 · at 19:52
Serial entrepreneur and coach Jason Todd discusses childhood conflict avoidance and explains why business owners cannot avoid emotionally charged workplace conflicts.
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“And as an adult, you can't retreat. Certainly not, you know, in your own company, you can't just retreat. Not really. You can try. And you're going to screw things up. So the answer is you just can't, you have to stay in it and you have to figure out how to function effectively in high emotion environments.”
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