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Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)

by Harvard Business Review, Nancy Duarte, Bryan A. Garner, Mary Shapiro, Jeff Weiss
February 2019
Beginner
3520 pages
50h 49m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 4

Assess the Situation

When you’re faced with a specific situation, there are five things to do to assess the scenario at hand before taking action—understand your counterpart; identify the type of conflict you’re facing; consider the organizational context; determine your goal; and, finally, pick one of the four options you’ll take to deal with this particular situation.

The first time you analyze a conflict using these five steps it will take some time, but eventually the analysis will get easier. The goal is to be able to quickly do these steps in your head whenever a disagreement arises.

Understand Your Counterpart

First, consider whom you’re dealing with. Is he a conflict seeker or avoider? How does he typically communicate and how ...

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