4 Posts found for Source: Insead Knowledge

Meaning is the symbolic value of something, while purpose is a goal… Thus, to mean something is to have value and significance. To have a purpose, however, means to bring value to something, to make something significant. In other words, purpose can guide life decisions, influence behavior, shape goals, offer a sense of direction, as well as create meaning. It has a future connotation. In … [ Read more ]

Author: Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: Insead Knowledge | Subjects: Concepts, Life & Society, Meaning, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

There are three main elements that can influence the outcomes of [difficult] conversations: issues, interests and identity.

Author: Chengyi Lin | Source: Insead Knowledge | Subjects: Communication, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Relationships

Feeling threatened overwhelms our perception. When we react to a situation, we revert to our primitive behaviour without flexibility or compassion.

Author: Iffet Türken | Source: Insead Knowledge | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Theories of international relations
Of the large range of theories that have emerged on how states get along with each other, or not as the case may be, I will draw, in simplified terms, on two leading schools today: liberalism and structural realism.

1. Liberalism
   The basic notion in liberalism is that conflict tends to occur where states have diverging interests. Where these interests are non-trivial, sometimes such

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Author: Michael A. Witt | Source: Insead Knowledge (January 2, 2017) | Subjects: Excerpts, Foreign Policy, History, International, Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy, Sociology | Anthropology