There are many factors that can affect the process and effectiveness of compromise as well as what happens later. “Later?” you say. Yes, after that often convoluted effort the decisions resulting from compromise then have to be implemented and worked with, and this is another source of problems with compromise. I will get back to the topic of what happens next in a bit.
At the end of the last post, I said that I would be introducing Solution-Building in the first of a series of posts discussing this process as an alternative to standard compromise for making decisions and solving problems. In this post I will start by giving some background about Solution-Building and discuss the basic philosophy of this approach to decision-making and problem-solving.
In the last post I ended with a brief discussion of issues that can arise when working with others we do not like or even actively dislike. This time we will start with how we can get along with, and work with, these people.