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Conflict Quotes by Margaret Heffernan
- [For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.
- We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given…
- We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.
- For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
- If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
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