Become Less Valuable Together

Challenge Identity

Consume Leverage

Consume More Than They Create

Convert Action Into Consequence

Cost More Than They Create

Create Discontinuity

Create Divergence

Create Doubt

Create Drag

Create Echoes

Create Fragility

Create Friction Across Generations

Create Instability

Create Interruption

Create Resistance

Increase Friction

Invite Suspicion

Leave Residue

Make Complexity Dangerous

Make Coordination Difficult

Make Knowledge Fragile

Make The Future Invisible

Occupy Attention

Punish Arrival Late

Punish Inattention

Punish Repetition

Punish Temptation

Quietly Create Effort

Quietly Destroy Opportunity

Quietly Divide

Quietly Generate Poverty

Quietly Punish

Reduce Optionality

Refuse To Wait

Settle

Slow Trust

conflict

conflict resolution

scapegoat

coping mechanism

being polite

is a principle which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated. Frank Herbert

is at the root of all life... man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict.

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven't begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love. Henry Miller

is essential to human cognition. Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. M. Esther Harding

is necessary in smaller sub-systems in order to constitute systems.

The whole system depends on the existence of conflicts in smaller sub-systems' (Gluckman 1955:21 (in Barnard 2000:85).

is often merely two parties that have caused one another suffering and whose retaliation is but an attempt to achieve relief from their suffering.

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates. Nhat Hanh

 creates the fire of affects and emotions... and like every fire it has two aspects: That of burning and that of giving light.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions... and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light. Carl Jung

is that which, in our 'unsocial sociability' drives the human race forward.

Kant argues that human progress depends on our own 'unsocial sociability', in which conflicts between people drive the human race forward.

is the essence of all human relationships and interpersonal relations are a ceaseless power struggle whereby the freedom that is the essence of every person endeavors to 'enslave' the freedom of the other.

In expounding his theory of being-for-others, Sartre argues that conflict is the essence of all human relationships. He characterizes interpersonal relations as a ceaseless power struggle. The freedom that is the essence of every person endeavours to 'enslave' the freedom of the Other, constantly striving to transcend the Other and reduce him to a transcendence-transcended.

conflict, n.All

conflict