The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

Many of us in controversial situations are used to thinking between two alternatives: if I win, you lose, and vice versa. Stephen Covey proposes the Third Alternative, a revolutionary approach to conflict resolution based on synergy. Just as an alloy is stronger than any of its constituent metals, so synergy is not a compromise, but something new, a combination of talent and creativity of the opposing sides, due to which the creative solution adopted by them exceeds those that each of them ...