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I grew up in a very conflict rich and environment and learned a lot about conflict management and risk management.
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You know, later on I realized fundamentally [music] you can do five things in a in a conflict, you know, you
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can compete, you can collaborate, you can compromise, you can avoid, or you can accommodate.
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And the thing to be clear about is, you know, which one of those do you think might work with that person or that
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group of people on that day, on that issue, with that atmosphere in the room. And sometimes
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um avoiding has [music] a bad connotation, you know, it feels like oh well, we're
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wimping out. Whereas actually in that moment in in a board meeting, for example, it might be
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better to kind of um save the conversation for afterwards. Or actually even better, you might have
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anticipated