Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing tools and resources to start, grow and manage your business. Workplace conflicts have been in the news lately—the tumult ...

The desire to avoid conflict in a relationship is common, but for very different reasons. First, involvement with a partner who is unable to perspective-take makes it nearly impossible to work out ...

Few things can derail a productive day faster than a scheduling conflict. When you carefully plan your calendar, two commitments overlap — or worse, you realize you’ve double-booked yourself. In ...

Conflict on a team is inevitable, and it can manifest in four distinct ways. Here’s what each type of conflict looks like and how to resolve it. Individual-level conflict is when one team member is ...

A difficult boss can make even the most fulfilling job a negative experience. You can avoid or at least anticipate friction with your manager by knowing what conflict personality style they have and ...

High-conflict personalities are fundamentally adversarial personalities. They don’t see their part in their own problems and instead are preoccupied with blaming others—possibly you. In this series, I ...

We need to look no further than the evening news these days to see harsh examples of conflict. Somehow, people forgot—or never even learned—how to address differences in constructive (not to mention ...

If you have ever managed a team or worked on one, you know that conflict within a team is as inevitable as it is distracting. Many managers avoid dealing with conflict in their team where possible, ...

There are two different kinds of conflict in storytelling: internal and external. Now, we go into lots of detail in our definitive guide to conflict, but today, I want to focus on internal conflict ...

A difficult boss can make even the most fulfilling job a negative experience. You can avoid or at least anticipate friction with your manager by knowing what conflict personality style they have and ...