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come up with creative win-win solutions. So, that leads me to my <br />assignment for tonight, the major assignment, and that is: <br />Ways to Move Beyond Polarized Positions and Find Creative Win- <br />Win Solutions. <br />Let’s cut right to the chase. No matter how much commonality you <br />find as you explore beliefs and values, you will also find <br />considerable conflict. And I would like to say that is good . <br />Research has shown that groups with a wide diversity of views <br />actually come up with better decisions. <br />A fellow who writes a business column for the New Yorker has <br />recently written a book called The Wisdom of Crowds . He says <br />“the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement <br />and contest, not compromise.” He says that an intelligent group <br />does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let <br />the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead, <br />it figures out how to use mechanisms to aggregate and produce <br />collective judgments that represent not what any one person in <br />the group thinks, but rather, in some sense what they all think. <br />That’s the trick of course, how to find those “mechanisms to <br />aggregate and produce collective judgments that represent what <br />you all think.” Specifically, how to use conflict to good advantage. <br />How to capitalize on your differences to generate decisions which <br />meet the wide variety of needs for water your constituents are <br />counting on. <br />Everybody’s talking about ways to move beyond polarized positions <br />to get to creative win-win solutions. There’s a lot of talk, but not <br />much instruction. To take from the Nike advertising, How do we <br />“Just Do It?” I am going to give you an overview of four different <br />angles to get us where we want to go: <br />