High Tech start-up companies are made up of creative, entrepreneurial people: people who are put off by structure and hierarchy, people who are independent and fast-paced. As the start-up develops and grows and professional, managerial people join the organization, cultures clash and responsibilities change. Access to the founders diminishes. The organization's fortunes are rising and so is the anxiety of individuals who wonder where they will end up in the increasingly complex hierarchy. Laura Farrow addressed all of these complex issues in this program.

Recorded: April 25, 2008

- Approaches and ideas for anticipating and managing conflicts that come with success
- Focusing on the use of effective communication skills
- Conflict resolution systems
- Mediation
- Other ways of making conflict a force for positive change

Online Media Type:		Audio
State Hours:		CA, NY, TX, IL, FL, AZ, WA, CO, NC, IN, TN

Speakers:

Laura Farrow Laura E. H. Farrow is a panelist with the American Arbitration Association. Mediation areas include employment, family, probate, partnership and other disputes involving working and business relationships. Ms. Farrow is a former Board Member of the California Dispute Resolution Council and is Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. She also maintains her own practice in Mill Valley, offering consulting and teaching services. Ms. Farrow teaches at University of California at Davis, King Hall School of Law, Stanford University School of Law and University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. Ms Farrow received her J.D., Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, 1980, Order of the Coif, Editor in Chief, California Law Review. From 1980-1981 she was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Cecil F. Poole, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She later joined McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen), San Francisco, where she was a partner specializing in employment litigation, including wrongful termination, discrimination and sexual harassment cases. She was a panelist with JAMS/Endispute, 1995-1997, with a general commercial/mediation practice.