THE RIGHT FIGHT How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value

"Picking your battles" is a phrase we've all heard. This concept is explored further by the authors, who believe that conflict is necessary to getting things done and recommend a far deeper analysis of the act of fighting. It’s complex, they say, and engagement must be flexible. Laural Merlington sounds engaged with the material, in particular with the "Right Fight Principles" that must guide us in overcoming the challenges we face in business and daily life. In an encouraging voice, Merlington describes these principles, which involve developing strategic fighting objectives, doing contingency fight planning, avoiding incorrect fighting, making fight adjustments, and more. Merlington persuasively delivers the author’s belief that once these internal struggles are attacked and won, then external fights become more productive. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2010]