Welcome to the Manager Tools podcast for Monday, February 12, 2007.

Handling Peer Conflict when your directs are involved, part two of two.

Okay. Hi, everyone, this is Mike, and on behalf of Mark and I, welcome back to Manager Tools.

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no comedy, just simple management advice. I'm leaving here shortly to get on a train to go work with a client, so I'm going to make this brief, and that's it. Here we go with part two of our

series on managing conflict when your peers are involved. Enjoy it. Brian. Well, I wasn't talking about high SID type of stuff.

I was thinking about something more straightforward.

I remember seeing an email, one of my, I hate to say it, one of my subordinates said, sent to one of my peers that started with, if you were an effective manager, you would.

Oh, that?

Yeah.

You know what?

You know what?

That's the kind of thing that Dilbert would satirize by the response being, if you worked here anymore.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah.

Oh, my. Okay. So no subtly exactly. Yeah. Oh my.

No subtly there.

Right.

Exactly.

So look, I'll give you a good example.

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