When people who love each other work side by side day in and day out, there is bound to be conflict. But because they do love and need each other, they keep it to themselves, hoping it will pass. Because this and more confrontational conflict is inevitable, every farm has a conflict management strategy in [...]
Read More...I’m sure you’ve been around farms where there is so much tension in the air you have trouble breathing. Is is workplace conflict, disagreements legitimate or not about the way things should or are being done? Or is it just their nature to argue and complain about everything and every one? Either way, there is [...]
Read More...Conflict in the workplace, assuming it is an actual pitched battle between employees – fist fights out behind the barn for example, or between supervisors who start malicious rumors about one another, is easy to see. Even so the dollar cost of such obvious conflict is rarely measured. More often however it is the much [...]
Read More...As farmers we are often trapped by the unintended results of untested assumptions. After all we’ve been in business a while, maybe a long while, and we’ve been successful so far. Often that only means we’ve guessed right more often than we’ve been wrong. What’s the expression, “It’s better to be lucky that good?” Well [...]
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