It’s All Your Fault: High Conflict People
Jun 11, 2026 · 35 min · 10 segments
Workplace conflict is costing US businesses $359 billion a year—and behind a disproportionate share of that damage is high conflict behavior: the kind that ignores limits, escalates faster than most…
Megan HunterHost
Michael LomaxGuestBill EddyHost
And drawing on insights from recent thinking on prevention, we're going to explore how leaders and HR can shift from reactive firefighting, uh, to proactive prevention.
So you can expect practical, immediately usable ideas to reduce friction, protect culture, and strengthen leadership.
[upbeat music] So we've had, uh, we've just read a, a recent article that says US businesses lose up to three hundred and fifty-nine billion, that's billion with a B, to workplace conflict each year.
Employees waste two point eight hours weekly navigating disputes, while twenty-three percent quit jobs over unresolved tensions.
And as external pressures mount from economic volatility to hybrid work whiplash, the old playbook of managing conflict after it ignites is collapsing.
And drawing on insights from recent thinking on prevention, we're going to explore how leaders and HR can shift from reactive firefighting, uh, to proactive prevention.
So you can expect practical, immediately usable ideas to reduce friction, protect culture, and strengthen leadership.
[upbeat music] So we've had, uh, we've just read a, a recent article that says US businesses lose up to three hundred and fifty-nine billion, that's billion with a B, to workplace conflict each year.
Employees waste two point eight hours weekly navigating disputes, while twenty-three percent quit jobs over unresolved tensions.
And as external pressures mount from economic volatility to hybrid work whiplash, the old playbook of managing conflict after it ignites is collapsing.
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