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  %BUSINESS CONFLICT RESOLUTION VIOLENCE REVOLUTION 900115

     Businessmen as revolutionaries need to take note that
truly   meaningful  revolutions  involve  the   nonviolent
resolution  of  conflicts;   not  violent  extensions   of
conflict.   The making of weapons of destruction does  not
lead  to  expansion  of  business  markets,   but  to  the
destruction of business markets.

     Violent conflicts harden people's minds,   hearts and
spirits;   and  so  inhibit creative  new  ventures  which
promote  economic  vitality  and trade.   Enemies  do  not
cooperate with each other,  nor trade profitably with each
other.   It  is  not profitable to make  enemies;   it  is
profitable to promote friendly business relationships.

     Revolutions  are  not advanced by the gun  and  other
weapons;  but rather by clear thinking,  honest  dialogue,
and  friendly  cooperation.   Violence  does  not  promote
integrative thinking and cooperation;  but rather promotes
alienation,   estrangement,   and the breakdown of  honest
dialogue  which  is essential to creative  and  profitable
business ventures. Violence restricts international trade;
cooperation expands international trade.

     Meaningful revolutions entail fundamental changes  in
people's  hearts,   minds,  spirits  and  daily  behavior.
Coercion,   violence,  and weapons of destruction tend  to
perpetuate  old disintegrative ways of feeling,   thinking
and  behaving;  they are counter-revolutionary in  nature,
and not worthy of authentic revolutionaries.

     Violent  people  who  seek  to  promote   revolutions
through the use of violence do so within the frame of mind
of addicts and codependents who perpetuate collusive games
of  self  deception.  Manipulative people are  willing  to
manipulate  the truth in their efforts to achieve  changes
which cannot be achieved otherwise.  The logic of violence
lacks   integrity,    and   leads   to   many   forms   of
disintegration.

     When  creative  people  who might  otherwise  promote
meaningful revolutions let themselves be preoccupied  with
repressive addicts and codependents,  the creative  people
let  themselves  get dragged into the habits of  mind  and
heart  of those whom they seek to change.   Attachment  to
addictive  and  codependent  habits  of  mind  and   heart
undermines meaningful revolutions.

     Meaningful  revolutions are not created by efforts to
control the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and expressions
of those who oppose meaningful revolutions. Preoccupations
with  the opposition is distractive;  diverting  attention
and  effort away from creative work which is the heart  of
meaningful revolutions.

     Meaningful  revolutionaries  need  to  learn  how  to
detach  themselves  from the  preoccupations  of  addicts,
codependents, and colluders; and transcend their habits of
mind  and  heart in creative ways  which  will  eventually
point  the way to alternatives which they cannot yet dream
about, much less desire.

     Revolutions   have   to  do  with   envisioning   new
connections  and  relationships which have not  previously
been  envisioned,   much less considered as  possible  and
desirable.  New connections and relationships provide  new
alternatives  from among which wise people can choose that
which is better than what has dominated the past.  Without
the envisioning of new connections and relationships there
is little in the way of new alternatives from among  which
to choose revolutionary new ways.

     Revolutionaries  are  visionaries who find  new  ways
through  open  and  honest dialogue to  communicate  their
visions  to many different kinds of people;  and do so  in
ways  which minimize threat,  coercion,  and violence---so
the possibility of unbiased consideration is maximized.

     Revolutionaries  are not preoccupied with people  who
are  stuck in the past,  with the conflicts of  the  past.
They  are seeking ways to resolve/transcend the  conflicts
of  the past.  A  revolution is not the winning of an  old
conflict, but the transcendence of an old conflict through
new visions.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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