Archive for July 10th, 2009

Posted on July 10, 2009 - by Jus

Be Curious With Conflict

The majority of people I know will do anything to avoid conflict.  Conflict really comes with a such a bad wrap, it’s got negativity and a distinct lack of compromise stitched into the fabric of its definition.  For the majority of the population, the word conflict equals bad.

So if Change The Way You See Everything is really going to stay true to its manifesto, it surely can see a way to making conflict equal good.  This part of the book is called Getting A Charge Out Of Conflict.

Opposition for opposition’s sake is what gives conflict its bad reputation.  I happen to not be one to shy away from conflict under most circumstances.  I am usually the one raising an issue to open the dialogue for discussion, or pointing out that something is NQR.  But this is where it gets tricky, because no matter how open-minded I try to remain when facing conflict, the outcome of the conflict is only as good as the Asset Based Thinking of the other person.

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