Crismarie Campbell - The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Teams Competitive Advantage

REAL WORLD TESTIMONIALS ABOUT HARNESSING YOUR TEAMS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH THE BEAUTY OF CONFLICT

In an industry that has its roots in command and control, the concepts in this book provide a clear path for creating high-performing teams and a humane company culture. After having been first introduced to the Thrive! team seven years ago, Im still getting great value from our work with Thrive! This is a must-read for any leader wanting to influence change on their team and in their organization overall.

Catharine Farrow
TMAC Resources CEO

CrisMarie and Susan were instrumental in helping a smart but unhealthy team of mine work through some very serious, yet largely unspoken, conflicts. It wasnt a fast or easy process, but were now the team that I knew we could be. The powerful techniques in The Beauty of Conflict had a huge impact on our teamwork and engagementand were having more fun and delivering even better results.

Mike Keller
Nationwide CIO

I was introduced to CrisMarie and Susan when they came in to work with our leadership team at Microsoft. I really value their perspective on teams, conflict, and building trust through vulnerability, curiosity and real-team work on business issues. I have reused their materials over and over to great success with leaders and teams. Im thrilled that this book is now out for other leaders. Their style is real, personal and practical. Its a must-read for a leader wanting to build strong relationships and get great business results.

Kim Hardgraves
Microsoft Director, Business Operations & Compliance

Who knew that growing up in a big Italian family full of conflict would provide me with the perfect training for business...an MBA at the dinner table! Susan and CrisMarie give us tools on how to embrace, bring out, use, and channel conflict to help teams get more out of each other and make better business decisions. This book is a must read for teams who want to be better together.

Pete Ungaro
Cray CEO

We have been married nearly 25 years and in business together for even longer so clearly weve learned to manage conflict. If not, wed be either dead, divorced, or the business would have dissolved by now. We felt we had a good handle on this but after working with Susan and CrisMarie, we learned how to go beyond just managing conflict to actually harnessing the power (and the beauty!) of conflict to make our partnershipboth personal and professionaleven more powerful. Why settle for resolving conflict when you can turn it into a competitive advantage?

Greg & Jenifer Lambert
TERRA Staffing Group, CEO and VP

CrisMarie and Susan were critically important in the early formation of the leadership team at Theravance. The culture they helped create has transcended any particular employee at this point, and the company is thriving. I am thankful to them both. Theyve written an important book designed to help leaders break through the barriers of those inevitable personality clashes and leverage them for your teams competitive advantage.

Mathai Mammen
Global Head of Research and Development, Janssen Inc. Johnson & Johnson Company Previously of Theravance, Senior Vice President Research and Development

The Haven is a center for transformative learning dedicated to helping people build richer relationships with others and themselves. For more than 30 years we have offered programs in self responsible, relational living and the art and science of living well, together.

Susan and CrisMarie are The Havens trusted team advisors, our go-to people to work with our board, management team, and staff. They have offered the highest quality team training at different times as teams have changed and grown, and especially as team members have got into difficulties with each other. Each time they leave the organization in better shape, and the impact of their work is both deep and lasting.

Teams are more in synch, are more able to navigate through difficult times, and are clearly focused on their common purpose. Im excited that this book, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Teams Competitive Advantage, is now available. Its a must read for anyone working in teams in any kind of organization. If you think that conflict is the problem, think again! Susan and CrisMaries book will help turn the elephant in the room to your organizations competitive advantage.

Rachel Davey
The Haven Institute Executive Director

We partnered with Thrive! during a crucial time in our growth. We applied the Thrive! team and communication tools to help us enhance the performance of our leadership team and improve our company culture, which contributed significantly to our success going public as one of the top five performing IPOs of 2016!

Evan Fein
Impinj CFO

I worked with Thrive! on two different teams: one I was a member of and one I led. Each time Thrive!s work was game-changing for our business. Our ability to work productively with conflict real-time changed conflict into not a problem but a resource for creative and innovative problem solving. Our work with Thrive! helped transform not only my team but my entire organization. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to create organizational change.

Andrew Walker
Nationwide Bank President

The Beauty of Conflict provides the practical model for becoming an influential leader, creating high-performing teams and transforming conflict into innovative resultsno small undertaking! CrisMarie and Susan partnered with us to develop our leadership team, senior leaders, and managers. Their approach outlined in The Beauty of Conflict is practical, sound, and effective. I happily recommend them and the book!

Amy Whaley
Marchex VP People Services

As the GM of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft I lead an organization full of subject matter experts. Working with CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke gave me the methodology, tools, and guidance to transform not just my leadership team, but my whole organization, into a high-performing cohesive team! Beauty of Conflict should be required reading for every leader!

Peter Cullen
Microsoft, Former GM Trustworthy Computing

I partnered with Thrive! in the midst of a transition. Theyre now my trusted team advisors. Not only do CrisMarie and Susan clearly reflect back how they see me so I become a better leader, they work with my leadership team and entire organization, resulting in us increasing Wolfes profit each year.

Terri Wolfe
Wolfe Mining, President

How invigorating to see such a powerful body of work on conflict and communication. We engaged Thrive! at Seattle Childrens Hospital when we were in a moment of crisis in a high-profile project. CrisMarie and Susan coached us through not only overcoming conflict, but learning to embrace and exploit it to our benefit.

At Childrens, at UW Medicine, and now at Skagit, we adopted Check It Out as a powerful tool to address intrapersonal disagreements. It became part of our communication vernacular, and as it did, we witnessed increases in team effectiveness and willingness to engage one another directly.

When team members independently recognized our ability to overcome the passive aggressive phenomenon known as Pacific Northwest Nice, we out performed our original goals! Im delighted to see these tools, stories, and cumulative experiences in this book for the benefit of all organizationsso they, too, can unleash the underestimated power of conflict!

Patrick Dolan
Skagit Regional Health Senior Director of Application Services

Conflict is never my favorite thing, and truth-telling can lead to conflict. But Ive found that when we face this fact with integrity, an alchemical change turns coworkers into true creators. CrisMarie and Susan describe this process in