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Art of Conflict Management

Summary

An exploration of the five most common default strategies, or styles, of conflict management upends a commonly held assumption. Compromise, it seems, is not the most effective conflict management strategy. It produces results far less desirable than the preferred strategy for producing win-win results, which is collaboration.