How do you ensure alignment when you have two senior executive stakeholders who disagree with each other on the proposed strategy and you are stuck in the middle?

First, seek to understand. What is each stakeholder's stance, but more importantly, why do they have that stance? What are their priorities, what are their concerns and w...

Be a moderator - this applies both internally and externally.What are the points of view? Where's the conflict? Use empathy to get to the heart of that and see if the con...

Welcome to the C-Suite. The people in this position have gotten there because they have really valuable perspectives to share and are often right. The best thing you can ...

Alignment is the name of the game. And yes, Sr. Execs aren't always seeing eye to eye. The good news is that Sr. Execs understand the unifying language of alignment. In o...

Everyone in the career will be in a situation where you have 2 senior executives stakeholders who disagree with each other on your proposed strategy and you're stuck in t...