Creative conflict

This attitude reveals the essence of the creative conflict paradox. Organic fanning is in actuality a critique of conventional practices and yet the converted fanners continued to feel strong bonds with those fanners who continued with the criticized conventional practices. Thus, the paradox becomes an internalized component of their self-identity. However, such internalized conflict may be particular to the 1995-converters. 

On the other hand, Holmbeck also emphasized that the relationship between organic and conventional farmers should be characterized by creative and constructive conflict. This means that organizations should be in constructive dialogue and both parts should contribute creatively to sustainable development of farming in Denmark. The concept of creative conflict also suggests that new... 

Litigation is not always the only or best way to resolve conflicts. Mediation offers an alternative approach and it is one that can be quite efficient and successful. Mediation can be faster, less expensive, and can lead to creative solutions not always possible in a court of law. Additionally, mediation focuses on mutually acceptable solutions, rather than on winning or losing. 

Like national and ethnic collective identities, disciplinary identities may be permeated by outsiders and their ideas, which become the sources for innovation and creativity. And the elements of conflict that often help establish disciplinary identity in the first place may lead to immigrations and emigrations capable of transforming the substructure and outer perimeter of the discipline. We can see many aspects of these changes as they unfold in the historical record, for example, revisions of the hagiography of the discipline, creation of new institutions and homelands, or, perhaps more immediately, transformations in everyday language. 

Using the opportunity or energy generated by conflict (for example between people, goals, ideas) to create an innovative solution. The solution reconciles or transcends the conflict. This is an extension of linking creativity. 

Conununication among pairs of individuals can be a source of creativity and innovation, or it can be a source of conflict. Imagine we are considering the possibihty of conflict, and call the quantity p the probability of a conflict between a pair of individuals. The probabihty that there will be conflict between in at least one relationship on a team of size n may be given by the following expression ... 

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