Embrace difficult situations. Get people together and figure out why they are not on the same page. I’ve had cases in the past where people refuse to work together. The only way I know how to deal with those problems is to deal with them in a straightforward manner. Once again, it’s about working with adults. Once and awhile, you end up bringing someone onto a team that really can’t work with adults. You sit down with those folks, you explain what the situation is, and in my view, we always have to work together. It’s no different then a baseball team or a football team, if the players don’t work together they are not going to be very successful. So what would the coach say? The coach would say, ‘You know guys if you aren’t going to work together I’m going to have to change the team. You can decide if you aren’t going to work together or not, but then I can decide whether or not you are going to be on the team.’ In the end, that’s an important role of a leader is to ensure people work together and are on the same page of music so to speak. It’s perfectly okay to have a difference of opinions, but in the end, we all have to share the same set of objectives. If not, you have people heading in different directions and that is not going to work.
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