Tag Archives: creative conflict

Marital Conflict: Relationships are a Journey not a Destination

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

A few weeks ago, I had a really interesting conversation with a security guard at one of my favorite bookstores, Waterstone’s in Gower Street, London (used to be Dillon’s University Bookstore) about conflict in relationships. I thought it might be … Continue reading →

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The Republican Party’s Denial of Reality aka Top Ten Tips on GOP Dysrationality

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

As humans, we have evolved the most incredible ability to imagine things being different from how they are. It was has enabled us to plan and implement huge civilization sized projects, create agriculture, industry and science, huge cities and infrastructure. … Continue reading →

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Is Empathy Possible in Conflict with Sociopaths aka Assholes?

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

On a previous posting, our correspondent Kyrie Eleison raised the interesting question whether in conflict it was possible to show empathy to the sort of self-seeking, sociopathic folk (aka assholes), who dominate our current politics and many corporations. I thought … Continue reading →

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Finding Donald Rumsfeld’s Unknown Unknowns: Top Ten Conflict Tips

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

I always thought it interesting that former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld popularized the phrase the Unknown Unknowns. Unfortunately, he used it in the sense of things we couldn’t know that throw off our plans, and he used it as … Continue reading →

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Bilingual is Better: Internal Conflict Between Two Languages is Potentially Creative

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Great piece in today’s New York Times on why bilingual speakers are smarter, by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. It suggests that the sort of stereoscopy behind the Creative Conflict Model of this blog, seeing things from two different viewpoints provided by two different … Continue reading →

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Medical Errors Kill 100,000: Conflict, Process Discipline and the Medical System

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

I love American surgeon Atul Gawande’s book ‘The Check List Manifesto‘, which is the inspiration behind the Creative Conflict Model of this blog, which is itself a conflict check list or process discipline. Atul shows very clearly the massive difference, … Continue reading →

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Conflict Ritual, Conflict Habits: Top Ten Conflict Tips

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

I recently posted this great quote from Alain de Botton about the way religion can teach us lessons about life: Education Religions are supremely effective at education, because they know that we forget everything. They are based around rehearsal, repetition, … Continue reading →

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Scott Fitzgerald Space, Paradox and Conflict

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

I have always like the F. Scott Fitzgerald observation in his essay ‘The Crack Up’ in 1936: ‘The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still … Continue reading →

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Creative Musical Conflict

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

I have always enjoyed the songs of the John Lennon and Paul McCartney and felt that the best ones came out of the creative tension between these two very different personalities. Paul McCartney as the survivor of the partnership has … Continue reading →

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Re-Post: Creative Strategies for Handling Conflict

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

With all the conflict going on at the moment, politically, over Wall Street, with China, in the Middle East, I thought it might be a good moment to re-post the Creative Conflict Model that lies at the heart of this … Continue reading →

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