The Pros and Cons of a Workplace Smackdown

(Look for part 2 of this post–”5 Ways to Turn Employee Conflict into a Good Thing“–tomorrow!)

There are very few things in the world you can count on like clockwork, but one of them is this: in any workplace, conflict is inevitable. In fact, if you’ve ever worked in an organization that was entirely free of conflict, you should probably call the Smithsonian immediately and have it catalogued.

Conflict is everywhere that people are. But how we think about, prepare for, and react to it tends to v...