By Alistair Craven
MangementFirst, October '06
(excerpt)

MANAGEMENTFIRST: You have advised dozens of Global 500 companies on leadership and large scale change. What have been some of your greatest challenges in this respect?

PAUL TAFFINDER: Getting top teams’ difficult, undiscussable issues onto the table so that executives can resolve them and take decisions in a more rational, less political and less conflict-driven way. It’s a fallacy that senior executives are any more rational and clear-thinking than the rest of the organization. Click here to read full interview.