Can anger help your business? Grrrrr......

In all areas of modern life, anger gets a bad rap....and with good reason. Generally speaking, nothing good happens when people get angry, and when they get reallyangry, bad things often happen. But as the link below suggests, there may be a productive role for anger in certain business situations. In other words, anger might be bad, but maybe it's not all bad. 

if we try to look at anger from a positive perspective,  we can make some interesting discoveries. Anger with another person, for example, is actually based on hope. By getting angry, you hope (and perhaps believe) that you can bring about positive change.

Even if you're a real hothead, you're unlikely to get angry with someone who's five feet tall for not playing in the National Basketball Association. But you might get angry at that person for deleting some important emails -- and underlying your anger is the hope that you can prevent the same mistake from happening again. 

As the link shows, anger may well have benefits in certain well-defined  business communications. There may even be times when getting angry can make the difference between success and failure. But you've got to know when and where to use it. In that sense, anger is just like many other things in life. You don't start your car by letting the air out of the tires, and you don't blow your top at every little thing (unless you're Oscar the Grouch.)

Here's the link to the New York Times article on "The Rationality of Rage" --
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/the-rationality-of-rage.html?_r=0