Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linconey, where we discuss anything and everything related to organizational health and the world of work. I'm your host, Pat Linconey here with Bo and Cody.

It's an all-male episode again, Tracy's on the road.

We do have Karen sending me notes and Matt producing.

Cody, what are we going to talk about today?

Conflict scarcity.

That's right.

We're going to go back and revisit something that's really important.

One of the most fundamental and at times controversial subjects which lies at the heart of

teamwork and organizational health is the importance of

conflict.

And by now most people accept that it's necessary, at least in theory.

I think people know, yeah, yeah, yeah, conflict is good.

But it's still so common that people give it lip service and yet avoid

it at almost any cost and the cost of avoiding conflict is huge. I can say that most organizations I've worked with over the years and that I work with today and I see

Don't come anywhere close to having the levels of conflict necessary for them to identify

Confront and solve problems quickly.

And instead, they allow issues to fester and problems to grow.

And I know this requires trust.

That's the first thing.

We know that it requires trust.

Without trust, there's no conflict.

But setting that aside and just talk about conflict itself, even in organizations that build

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