Three Ways to Capitalize on Creative Tension

Clashing management styles do not always lead to management clashes. Recently, we’ve noticed a trend with clients asking for help in coaching and consulting around issues of differing styles — issues that we’ve had to sort out ourselves as we’ve grown our business. Neither of us can quite remember how we came together — we […]

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Amy Jen Su

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Muriel Maignan Wilkins

by

Amy Jen Su

and

Muriel Maignan Wilkins

May 18, 2010

Clashing management styles do not always lead to management clashes. Recently, we’ve noticed a trend with clients asking for help in coaching and consulting around issues of differing styles — issues that we’ve had to sort out ourselves as we’ve grown our business.

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Amy Jen Su is a co-founder and managing partner of Paravis Partners, a premier executive coaching and leadership development firm. For the past two decades, she has coached CEOs, executives, and rising stars in organizations. She is the author of the HBR Press book The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day, and co-author of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence with Muriel Maignan Wilkins.
Muriel Wilkins is an executive coach with a strong track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders get through their hardest professional challenges and take their effectiveness to the next level. She is the cofounder of Paravis Partners and coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.
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Three Ways to Capitalize on Creative Tension

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