I read chapter 7 which is about "conflict," and I thought that
Conflicts, I think are everywhere and everything.
Fighting with siblings over food, arguing with team members about team policy, and even a war could be a type of conflict.
Therefore, it is very hard to define the word "conflict."
However, I find some conflicts meaningful in a way and I have experienced it over the last 3 years at my high school.
I was the captain of my soccer club at my high school.
The captain's job was to think of effective training menus, to set training matches with other schools, to come up with the best formation to win tournaments, and finally, to believe in all team members and manage them to create a coherent team.
So I tried my best to believe in them and manage the whole team to win upcoming matches.
However, there were of course, "conflicts" on the way.
Some members of the team were not satisfied with my training menus and could not find significance in them.
Then we had a
"conflict" over team's training methods.
"I think that our team is lacking this skill, so we should practice mainly on this!"
"No, we have more things to do than that. We should work more on fundamental skills."
We were young, so we heated up more than necessary and the "conflict" lasted more than a week.
While we had that conflict, all team members could not concentrate on practice. This one week was really painful.
Nevertheless, what happened next was that some other members came in between two opposing sides, and said
"We see that you guys are the ones who care about the team the most. This conflict(argument) is due to to your serious commitment to the team."
Then we had a team meeting with all members, and talked, talked, and talked about what we really need/practice on as a whole team.
This meeting enabled me to understand more about the team and compromise my thoughts about training menus.
Accordingly, after this full team meeting, we were able to set up training menus that everyone was comfortable and assent with.
If I, and the other members have never had the "conflict," the team would also have never had the chance to realize each member's real feelings.
The "conflict," was actually a perfect to way for the team to really open up, and also to commit more enthusiastically to the club.
To sum up, what I want to say is that
many conflicts lead to positive outcome.
So if there is a conflict in front of you, you may run away from it, but
sometimes it may be better to think that there is a great outcome when that conflict is over.
Apple Inc. had a huge conflict within the company at one time, then the founder, Steve Jobs was forced out of the company.
However, later on, he made a comeback and made
Apple Inc. the most valuable brand in the world.
Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg had a huge conflict with the Winklevoses , who insist that they had the original idea of Facebook.
This conflict was also solved somehow, and now
Facebook is the greatest social networking company in the world.
It seems like great success could only achieved after a meaningful conflict...
