Why the Best Leaders Don't Resolve Conflict at Work

Send us Fan Mail Stop trying to resolve conflict at work. When you do, it costs you promotions, hurts your career, and shows weak leadership skills. Of course workplace conflict is frustrating, and it can feel personal, political, and exhausting. Often times, the harder you work to resolve it, the more stuck you feel. The truth is, the higher you rise, the more conflict you face. Competing agendas, ambiguous decisions, no clean answers. That's not dysfunction — that's what leadership at sen...