The Beauty of Conflict Quotes

“A culture that is friendly to emotions create space for you or someone else to share what is going on internally in the moment. It takes only about 90 seconds for someone to recognize their feelings. It takes longer for someone who is trying to avoid explain or make their reaction go away.”
― Susan Clarke, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“When you pause, when you become congruent, when you connect to your ME, your leadership improves.”
― Susan Clarke, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“You can’t expect him to move a 1500 pound animal if you don’t even inhabit your own 150 pound body

When you lose connection with yourself, you lose connection to others and miss out on the impact you can have on them.”
― Susan Clarke, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“When you become aware of and own your thoughts, feelings and emotions, you clarify the fidelity of your message because there is congruence between the external words being spoken and the internal emotional landscape.”
― Susan Clarke, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“The alternative to achievement is mastery. Mastery is not fixed to a particular external outcome, but rather to a growing internal sense of competence and satisfaction.”
― Susan Clarke, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“Strength: The capacity to except oneself and turn in word, listen to yourself, and make decisions based on inner guidance, your gut instincts, rather than what others want or expect.”
― Crismarie Campbell, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“When you show up real open and honest as a whole person – not just in the safety of your role - your energy inspires your team.”
― Crismarie Campbell, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage

“To often a leader defuses the situation by:

1. Determining the right answer primarily through logic reason and efficiency
2. Cutting off discussion and taking things off-line when people get too emotional
3. Managing strong personalities through one on one conversations
4. Listening to the loudest or the favorite voice the one who starts are usually the same as the leaders
5. Declaring oneself as the leader in forcing a direction”
― Crismarie Campbell, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage