Category: Healthcare Problem Solving
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Is Being In Conflict Human?
“I think, therefore I am” – René Descartes When we look at the issues and concerns in our daily lives and the endless competition, confrontations, and violence in world events, have we accepted or resigned ourselves to the conclusion that conflict is inevitable? In other words, like our cultural acceptance that “to err is human,”…
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The Nature of Conflict
“We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about” – Edgar Schein In the last two posts, we explored how our assumptions create division and conflict, and how this prevents us from seeing, understanding, and solving functional problems. We observed that conflict is intertwined…
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The Conflicted Problem
“We can’t solve problems using the same thinking that created them to begin with” – Albert Einstein One of the biggest challenges we face in clinical transformation is to see the functional problem that is contributing to the systems dysfunction we live or work in. Problems always seem to have associated contradictions and emotional distress,…
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Beware of Assumptions
“When you’re surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think it’s reality.” – Emily Levine Welcome to the first post of INWYT Unraveled, a blog series dedicated to exploring our approaches to problem solving in healthcare and beyond. As we begin our deep dive, we must understand…