Why Tensions Keep Your Team at The Top of The Game

Conflict moves teams forward rather than backfire

Conflict moves teams forward rather than backfire

Addressing tensions can make or break a team. Pic by Andrew Yardley

Business leaders suffer from a “perfectionist syndrome”.

Aiming for betterment is good but trying to be perfect is not. Perfection is an illusion.

Companies are made of humans. The perfect organization doesn’t exist. Leadership is to deal with the imperfect side of people.

Organizational alignment and cultural fit are two perfect examples of perfectionism myths, as I wrote previously.

A workplace without tensions is an illusion too. But managers see them as something negative. And, when tensions show up, they either act on denial or try to silence conflicts.

Tensions are fuel to keep your team at the top of their game.

You can learn to address them. Or ignore them until they backfire.

How tensions get things together

Tensions are always present, even if we don’t notice them.

Take suspension bridges, for example. They are designed to be flexible. That’s what makes them strong.

The …