Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities

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Bridging

BRIDGING: building actual partnerships and alliances that cross the borders that divide an organization or a community

Background: From “Them” and “Us” to “We”

The world that we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we created them.

—Albert Einstein

The purpose of bridging is action. All of the preparation that has occurred so far—integral vision and systems thinking, presence and inquiry, conscious conversation and dialogue—is essential. But those involved in the conflict now want results. After investing in dialogue, those involved in the conflict want evidence of progress. They want a real “win.”

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