In the changing business climate of the early 1990s, this regional backwater financial institution based in St Paul, MN decided to grow beyond its founding charter to provide services to farmers.  It saw itself as a mega-bank spanning geographic regions and offering products well beyond the farm mortgages and crop loans with which it had begun and survived for years.  How to envision the future and bring it into reality was the difficulty.  Though the chairman could envision the future, his management team was divided by visions of grandeur and were fighting among themselves for advantage.  We formed discussion sessions aimed at developing integrated strategies to realize the chairman's vision. 

The discussion sessions enabled the group to surface their conflicts in a safe arena.  Here they could defuse their conflicts and realize that the only road to success for any of them lay in the direction of working together for the good of all.  The conflicts, while not easy to manage, became the basis for succeeding.

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