Navigate Conflict Calmly, Creatively, Together.
This site is an attempt to help you creatively re-frame how you handle conflict hopefully to get better results and improve the relations with those you regularly have conflict with.
What’s in it for me
This website and associated smart phone app and Creative conflict chat bot will enable you to creatively handle the conflict in your life whether it is business or personal. As most of your conflict is likely with the same people repeatedly, be they partner, neighbour, boss, customer whoever, build better relationships with them.
introduction of Creative Conflict Synergies
Ed Sketch is a US/UK national, living in London after 25 years living and working in in the US. He is a retired Ford Motor Company executive, who was successively Director Global Labor Strategy, Chief Learning Officer, and Director Organization Effectiveness for Ford world-wide
He was known for his strategic approach and creativity, personally inventing a path breaking on line-learning system that was highly regarded.
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The 7 Steps of Creative Conflict Discipline
Our method takes you step by step through handling conflict in a constructive, relationship-building way.
What is your walk away alternative to an agreement?
Look your underlying interests in the conflict.
Understand the underlying interests of the other side.
Generate possible What If’s that would meet both sides’ underlying interests.
See the conflict from outside to see if even more creativity could be generated.
Craft a possible agreement that takes account of both sides’ interests creatively using the What If’s from steps 4 and 5.
Learn from what went well, didn’t go so well, what would you do differently next time?
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Get Real about the Conflict Situation
What is your walk away alternative to an agreement?
02
Get Clear
Look your underlying interests in the conflict.
03
Get Empathetic
Understand the underlying interests of the other side.
04
Get Creative
Generate possible What If’s that would meet both sides’ underlying interests.
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Get Stereoscopic
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Get Specific
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Get Smart
- “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man” (Heraclitus)
- “Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” (Heraclitus)
- Change alone is unchanging (Heraclitus)
- “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” (Plato)
- “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil” (Plato)
- “ …no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” (Thomas Hobbes)
- “During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.’ (Thomas Hobbes)
- “The master is as much a slave as the slave” (Georg Hegel)
- “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” (Carl von Clausewitz)
- “Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.” (Carl von Clausewitz)
- “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past”( Karl Marx)
- “In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.” (Karl Popper)
- “Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.” (Karl Popper)
- “The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them” (Thomas Kuhn)
- “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” (Adam Smith)
- “How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it” (Adam Smith)
- “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” (Adam Smith)
- “We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?” (Seneca)
- “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” (Seneca)
- “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” (Marcus Aurelius)
- “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” (Marcus Aurelius)
- “The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding” (Albert Camus)
- “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy” (Albert Camus)
- “Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil” (Albert Camus)
- “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” (John Maynard Keynes)
- “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God” Matthew 5.9
- “Blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”’ Matthew 5.3
- “And now abideth faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” Corinthians 13.13
- “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- “Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
- “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
- “You’re right from your side I’m right from mine We’re both just one too many mornings An’ a thousand miles behind” (Bob Dylan)
- “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others” (George Orwell)
- “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there” (Rumi)
- “The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface” (Lao Tse)
- “The softest thing in the universe overcomes the hardest” (Lao Tse)
- “Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness” (Lao Tse)
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
- “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse” (Edmund Burke)
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