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Evaporating Conflict: How HR Practitioners Can Leverage the Evaporating Cloud Method to Unlock Organizational Success
ByKarl Perry April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

Imagine a world where workplace conflicts dissolve like clouds on a sunny day, where HR practitioners possess the secret key to unlocking organizational success. The Evaporating Cloud Method is that key, and it’s transforming the way HR professionals approach problem-solving and decision-making in today’s complex business landscape. Introduction In today’s complex and ever-changing business landscape,…

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Avoidance Style | Conflict Clouds | Leadership | Mindset | Personal conflicts

You don’t have to “go it alone”
ByKarl Perry March 14, 2023March 7, 2023

Amanda had always been fiercely independent. She prided herself on being self-reliant and self-sufficient. She had built a successful business from the ground up, and she was always looking for new opportunities to expand it further. But there was a problem. Amanda had trouble relating to others. She struggled to connect with people on a…

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Conflict Clouds | Leadership | Mindset | Oppositional Style | Personal conflicts

How to stop the habit of being against things
ByKarl Perry March 9, 2023June 16, 2023

Peter had always been an ambitious individual. He was a high-performing manager at a reputable company, and he was always seeking to improve the way things were done. One day, he had an idea to harness the power of his team’s ideas to achieve even better performance. He knew that if he could get his…

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How to stop having difficulty being accepted
ByKarl Perry March 8, 2023March 8, 2023

Amanda had always been fiercely independent. She started her small business from scratch and worked hard to make it successful. However, as the business grew, Amanda realized that she needed to collaborate with others to expand further. She struggled with the idea of relying on others and found it hard to trust anyone else with…

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Conflict Clouds | Leadership | Mindset | Oppositional Style | Personal conflicts

Learning to accept criticism
ByKarl Perry March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

Loraine was a high achiever and a perfectionist who had always taken her work very seriously. However, she had a reputation for not taking criticism well, which often made it difficult for her to collaborate effectively with others. Loraine recognised that she had conflicting needs. On one hand, she wanted to improve herself and to…

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Conflict Clouds | Leadership | Mindset | Personal conflicts | Power Style

Giving up being dictatorial
ByKarl Perry March 2, 2023March 3, 2023

Trevor had always been a successful businessman but had difficulty letting go of control. He believed that to have great decisions happening in the business, he needed to keep control of the decision-making. But as he began to recognise the importance of his employees’ input, he realised he needed to find a different way. Trevor…

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How to deal with internal conflict
ByKarl Perry February 28, 2023March 4, 2023

Amanda had always been a determined woman. She had started her own small business from scratch, and it had grown to become a successful enterprise. But as the years passed, she found herself feeling more and more disconnected from the people around her. She had become so focused on her work that she had forgotten…

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Conflict Clouds | High Performance People | Inherent Dignity | Mindset | Theory of Constraints

How to grow with inherent dignity
ByKarl Perry September 21, 2022November 10, 2022

This article explains the challenge of growing with inherent dignity and what you can do about it. Let’s explore… “I think, therefore I am” This statement by René Descartes became a fundamental element of Western philosophy and is at the heart of the western analytical approach to life. It is self-focused. “I am, because of the others” This statement…

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Conflict Clouds | Theory of Constraints

Should we blame the system or the people?
ByKarl Perry February 11, 2022

Who, or what should be blamed for poor performance? Should we blame the system or the people? The first problem here is blame. Nothing good ever came from blaming. Let’s think logically about the problem. It seems to me that we should focus on supporting people (not blaming them) so that they can improve the…

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Conflict Clouds | Leadership | Mindset | Theory of Constraints

Inherent simplicity opens the door to our hidden beliefs.
ByKarl Perry February 4, 2022October 29, 2022

“And your last observation highlights why Inherent Simplicity is so helpful. Inherent Simplicity recognizes that as we dive down, causes converge. Convergence means that each meaningful cause is responsible not for just one effect, but for more than one. Believing in Inherent Simplicity assures us that for any meaningful cause there are at least two…

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Conflict Clouds | Leadership | Mindset

Did you know you can measure resistance to change?
ByKarl Perry February 3, 2022December 17, 2023

The reason most people want change is to get more satisfaction. The reason most people don’t want to change is to maintain their security. When people feel pressure to change and they feel pressure not to change they resist change. That is not good for people who want to grow (and that is everyone!) There…

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What do lawnmowers and clouds have to do with solving problems?
ByKarl Perry April 9, 2013September 29, 2019

I was once given a piece of sage advice. I can’t remember where it came from or from whom. It went something like this …. “If your lawnmower breaks down and you don’t know how to fix it just keep looking at it until you see the solution. You will be amazed at what you…

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