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What is the relationship between controversy, decision-making, and creativity?
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IT is nice when a decision can be made such that it avoids the issues of polarization in a controversy, but usually, it does not work.
Examples: Ban on partial birth abortion. Ban on federal funds expenditures on Family planning services. Stopping the construction of a mosque near NYC Trade center.
Nearly all decisions are made with conflicting ideas, and in recent times, ideas have become polarized. In a business, often differing ideas have adverse effects on differing groups (downsize, moving production to China, expanding). It is easy to say find a creative way to resolve the difference, but often it fails. What I see more often is the issues are repackaged to make them more palatible to the non-involved (abortion becomes family planning, downsizing becomes implementing efficiency, or reducing costs), moving production becomes allocating production resources, increasing taxes becomes enhancing revenue, and so forth.
So my opinion is that as often as we seek and talk about creative solutions, they are actually rare, and often just repackaging in softer language.
Examples: Ban on partial birth abortion. Ban on federal funds expenditures on Family planning services. Stopping the construction of a mosque near NYC Trade center.
Nearly all decisions are made with conflicting ideas, and in recent times, ideas have become polarized. In a business, often differing ideas have adverse effects on differing groups (downsize, moving production to China, expanding). It is easy to say find a creative way to resolve the difference, but often it fails. What I see more often is the issues are repackaged to make them more palatible to the non-involved (abortion becomes family planning, downsizing becomes implementing efficiency, or reducing costs), moving production becomes allocating production resources, increasing taxes becomes enhancing revenue, and so forth.
So my opinion is that as often as we seek and talk about creative solutions, they are actually rare, and often just repackaging in softer language.
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