Peter Coleman, Professor of Psychology & Education, and Director of TC's Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
The best teams can fail if they don鈥檛 know how to work together 鈥� witness the engineers who responded to the Chernobyl disaster 32 years ago, writes TC鈥檚 Peter Coleman in , his blog for Psychology Today. Drawing on a century of literature on the topic, Coleman offers tips for working together, ranging from establishing a safe environment for risk-taking to encouraging productive conflict. Applying that advice to current political divisions in America, he argues that the nation鈥檚 founders created good conditions for continuing collaboratio, including a constitution that sanctions the rule of law and civil discourse, a motto of E Pluribus Unum (鈥淥ut of many, one鈥�), and traditions of compassion and unity.
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