Deconstructing Conflict: Understanding Family Business, Shared Wealth and Power; A Book Talk with authors Blair Trippe and Doug Baumoel

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The Program on Negotiation is pleased to present:
Deconstructing Conflict:
Understanding Family Business,
Shared Wealth and Power
A book talk with authors
Blair Trippe
and
Doug Baumoel
 
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Wasserstein Hall, 1st Floor, Room 1019
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
About the book:
Deconstructing Conflict draws upon nearly fifteen years of experience in which Doug Baumoel and Blair

Resolve: Negotiating Life’s Conflicts with Greater Confidence; A Book Talk with author Hal Movius

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The Program on Negotiation is pleased to present:
Resolve:
Negotiating Life’s Conflicts with Greater Confidence
A book talk with
Hal Movius
Author
 
Thursday, February 9, 2017
5:00 PM
Wasserstein Hall, 1st floor, Room 1010
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
About the book:
If you dread conflict, you’re not alone. Research suggests that interpersonal conflict is the biggest daily stressor

How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control | Ashley Judd

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Enough with online hate speech, sexual harassment and threats of violence against women and marginalized groups. It's time to take the global crisis of online abuse seriously. In this searching, powerful talk, Ashley Judd recounts her ongoing experience of being terrorized on social media for her unwavering activism and calls on citizens of the internet, the tech community, law enforcement and legislators to recognize the offline harm of online harassment.

What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose | Jennifer Brea

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Five years ago, TED Fellow Jennifer Brea became progressively ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating illness that severely impairs normal activities and on bad days makes even the rustling of bed sheets unbearable. In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, whose root causes and physical effects we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat.

5 Conflict Resolution Strategies

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Whether a conflict erupts at work or at home, we frequently fall back on the tendency to try to correct the other person or group’s perceptions, lecturing them about why we’re right—and they’re wrong. Deep down, we know that this conflict management approach usually fails to resolve the conflict and often only makes it worse.
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If a story moves you, act on it | Sisonke Msimang

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Stories are necessary, but they're not as magical as they seem, says writer Sisonke Msimang. In this funny and thoughtful talk, Msimang questions our emphasis on storytelling and spotlights the decline of facts. During a critical time when listening has been confused for action, Msimang asks us to switch off our phones, step away from our screens and step out into the real world to create a plan for justice.

The Cognitive Era unfolds: Register for PartnerWorld Leadership Conference 2017

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As the year comes to an end and the fourth quarter closes, it’s only natural to take stock of our achievements together. More importantly, it’s time to go beyond that. After all, “business as usual” is a cliché for a reason—in my endless travels around the globe, I’m hearing that you, our IBM Business Partners, are just as excited as IBM about joining us on our journey into the Cognitive Era, where Watson and solutions based on Watson have begun to represent the future of meeting client demand.

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