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December 05, 2011
Part 2 of McIlwrath CPR Interview with William Ury.
So, again, what is a BANTA? The continuation of the November 23 William Ury interview is at IDN Podcast #102. In episode two, GE's Mike McIlwrath and Ury discuss the art of negotiating with difficult people. Now in its fifth year, the CPR-IDN podcast series on international dispute negotiation is always excellent. McIlwrath's to-the-point introduction, and some feisty jazz violin, open every interview.
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"A First-Rate Madness": A Book that Expands Your Take on Leadership Styles.
If you think your boss might be a whack job some days, bet on him anyway. While its writing and organization could have been even better, and the research perhaps deeper, the ideas in A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, will likely change the way you think about leadership. At the same time it gives you an empathy for both internal personal pain and exterior quirk in decision-makers you almost certainly never had. It's also a brave book. "Mental Illness" is given a broad definition here but most of Ghaemi's subjects--he includes among others Churchill, Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Kennedy, General W.T. Sherman and Ted Turner--are explained according to biologically-inherited and/or drug or chemical-induced traits (usually a combination of the two) that will stand the genre of biographical "psycho-history" on its already tormented head. The thesis: In times of crisis, leaders with abnormal or even "bad" mental health are much more effective than sane ones. And, of course, they are a lot more interesting to consider.
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GE's Mike McIlwrath interviews Negotiation-Dispute Resolution Pioneer and "Getting to Yes" Author William Ury.
You can hear the first episode here, taped on November 23. McIlwrath interviews "Getting to Yes" author William Ury on credibility and trust in negotiations, reducing tensions at the bargaining table and even Ury's role, after a request by the Carter Center, to mediate a standoff a few years ago in Venezuela between President Hugo Chavez’s supporters and the opposition. This podcast is #101 in the well-regarded International Dispute Negotiation (IDN) series of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). The second episode (#102), on negotiating with "difficult people", airs later today. McIlwrath is Senior Counsel, Litigation for GE Infrastructure-Oil & Gas, and works out of Florence, Italy.
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