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Michael Brown

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Born

Grimsby, The United Kingdom

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https://harriman-house.com/idontagree

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Business, Self Help, Psychology

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Malcolm Gladwell, Harry C Triandis, Hans Rosling, Daniel Kahneman, Cai ...more

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Michael is a business founder, a long-term managing director, part of the leadership group of an organisation of over 4,000 people, and social enterprise pioneer – helping to create, launch and lead what is thought to be the world’s first mental health drop-in centre inside a soup kitchen. Michael’s interest in the psychology of conflict and compromise arose after spectacularly falling out with his fellow shareholders in a business he led for a decade. The lessons learned positively informed the culture of his next venture, now an international marketing organisation, and gave rise to I Don’t Agree.
Michael is a published writer, but this is his first book. He lives in Brighton with Katy, Jake, Freddie, Millie and Tessie - who is a Shi-Tzu. ...more

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Michael Brown I had spectacularly fallen out with my fellow shareholders in a business I had run for nearly a decade as managing director. What started as minor boa…moreI had spectacularly fallen out with my fellow shareholders in a business I had run for nearly a decade as managing director. What started as minor board room disputes over the direction of the enterprise turned into a power struggle, culminating after 18 months in a public firework display of white-hot emotions on the office floor.

We could probably have sold front row seats on Ticketmaster.

There was no going back. The aftermath threatened the security of my young family, disrupted the highly valued team I’d put together, cost all the partners a small fortune in legal fees – and a business we’d given so much to turned to ashes in the conflagration.

Could we have done things differently?

Definitely.

Knowing how to… that’s a different matter. Of all the questions I asked myself in the period of reflection that followed, one kept coming back: did my partners have a position in the argument that was at least as valid as mine? Only now, with the benefit of hindsight, can I confirm that yes, they probably did. It was this thought that led to the idea for I Don’t Agree.
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I Don't Agree: Why We Can't Stop Fighting - And How to Get Great Stuff Done Despite Our Differences

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I Don't Agree wins BIG at the Business Book Awards 2021

I'm so very sorry.

Equally, I'm delighted too.

Delighted to officially announce that I actually took Gold for the Business Book Awards 2021 Leadership of the Future award last night. Genuinely, I wasn't expecting that.

Which means I'm going to have to apologise in advance to everyone I know (certainly to everyone in my Linkedin network); I may be dining out on this for some time. Sorry (again).

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