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Peacemakers in a Conflicting situation

Peacemakers are great tool that can be used to manage the conflicts between two people, corporations and even nations. They are able to do that by giving incentives for cooperation and removing the competition between the two parties. Although a point to remember is that third party interventions are not always unselfish and motivation behind their participation has to be verified. The childhood story of the fight between two monkeys for an equal half of a cake and a cunning fox comes to mind, where the fox kept on pieces of cake to make them equal and putting them in his stomach until none of the cake was left. Yet if a intrinsic or even extrinsic motivation is given to third party conflict resolution, we could believe the peacemaker would be satisfied and focused in resolving the issue without ulterior motives. Self-interest is always paramount in all the parties and it has to be recognized and handled. Thus the aim of anybody would be to develop a sense of co-operation among all.

Design Thinking

It can be a process where a simple napkin and a pen can be used to make an entrepreneur out of any person. One of the best benefits comes from the initial idea generation via brainstorming. A process that used efficiently, allows people with multitude and variety of ideas to collaborate together to generate one brilliant game-changing solution. The way brainstorming can work well is to allow people to develop individual ideas and solutions before working in a group and combining the ideas. Having a conservation with your target base is important to get the idea clarity and know more about the users to get insights. Making prototypes of your ideas and getting the feedback will also allow you to get your idea running and sometimes it allows for interest to develop among those people for the product before actual work has begun. It can also help you avoid ideas that are poised for failure. A good idea would be to develop a business canvas model for your idea. It can used so well with