Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities

Foreword

It is a pleasure to introduce a book that I have watched grow from its inception to its full expression. This book was born out of Mark Gerzon’s passion—his keen listening over many years to emerging leaders around the world and his persistent striving to distill the essential principles of the new kind of leadership needed to face the challenges of increasingly global economics and politics. As a friend and colleague, I have had the pleasure of witnessing Mark at work, practicing the very kind of bridging, transformative leadership that he writes about.

My own experience as a student and practitioner of negotiation over the past quarter century has underscored for me the vital importance of the leader as mediator. In my efforts to help ...