It’s not about the content - a fresh leadership perspective on disagreement
Author of Why Are We Yelling? Buster Benson flips the perspective of difficult conversations and conflict, turning them from something to be feared into a super power. By asking thoughtful questions, disagreements become leadership learning opportunities, goodwill generators and windows into a bigger world. Buster explains why ‘What am I missing?’ could be the most important question you’ll ask today and shares what it is like to go from entrenchment to exploration.
Why you should listen: leadership principles for caring conflict
How to recalibrate team development dynamics
Navigating corporate culture clashes
The leadership questions you need to be asking
We explore a leadership mindset shift from war to campfire
Holding up the mirror to leadership beliefs
A leadership perspective that’s open to change
Agreeing to disagree is not a leadership strategy
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About Buster Benson:
Author and entrepreneur, Buster Benson, shares a new leadership framework for productive disagreement.
Buster Benson is an entrepreneur and a former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon.
He’s now CEO of 750words.com and writes for Medium and busterbenson.com.
Why are we yelling? The art of productive disagreement is his first book.
For more on Buster please visit busterbenson.com/me/
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.