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Not even the best-run organizations can avoid challenges, conflict, and stress, especially in tough economic times. But leaders at all levels can profoundly influence the way an organization responds…
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Avoiding conflict typically creates more harm than communicating directly and honestly about it.
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To free ourselves from habit, to resolve the paradoxes, to transcend conflicts, to become the masters rather than the slaves of our own lives, we must first see and remember, and then forget.
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Our lives are made less of small truths and falsehoods that of great truths and the truths than are their opposites, which is why the resolution of basic conflicts is so difficult sometimes.
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Conflict of interest and politics are synonymous, and we all understand the cozy collaboration that politicians forge to preserve their own power at the expense of the common welfare.
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…misunderstanding, conflicts, personality differences, and even angry quarrels are not the assassins of love; self-justification is.
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…few things are more effective for squashing conflict and dissent than success.
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We all tend to work out our conflicts upon the backs of each other, especially our friends. We all have been unfair and mean.
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Hatred within families may be the most damaging and enduring of all human conflicts, and the most difficult to sort out.
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More often than not history is a record of conflict between an Us and a Them.
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