Yoyoma Necessary Edges And The Dell Theory Of Conflict Prevention

Yoyoma and Friedman on Collaboration
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Collaboration plays a substantial role in our lives by effecting a lot of things that would otherwise have led to chaos. Yoyoma Ma, in his book Necessary edges: art empathy and education, argues out that art should be made a part of the education system. The associated elements of empathy help in the creation of balanced thinking necessary for building a good global culture. As well, such culture requires collaboration that can be achieved through the incorporation of art in the educational curriculum. On the other hand, Friedman discusses two theories that help in the prevention of conflicts and their limitations. Therefore, this paper will focus on what Ma says about collaboration, the different kinds of collaboration put forward by Friedman and their positive impacts and the various ways that are not discussed by the authors showing that collaboration is an important aspect in the society.
According to Ma, collaboration is brought about by “Incorporating arts” into the educational curriculum. The human brain has “dual neural pathways” for both empirical and critical thinking (Ma, 2014). Through the deep thinking, the human mind is able to create some level of empathy with the situation at hand hence making it easy for them to cope with that situation. This condition of coping is known as collaboration. As a result, without the arts that trigger empathy, it would be hard for individuals to understand the concept of collaboration. This calls for its necessity in the education system. As well, being able to place yourself in another person's shoes is not an easy task. The person could be undergoing a difficult situation that you could find difficult to cope with. This is whereby collaboration comes in by evoking the feelings of empathy. Thus, through the empathy, an individual is able to fit in another's shoes. Given the direction which the world of leadership is taking, Collaboration would be an important aspect to understand because it would help in the formation of treaties and the prevention of actions that could, in turn, lead to chaos. Ma also argues that collaboration is the key to a peaceful society. It helps in placing the ego expressed by people between the society and an individual. This creates an equilibrium due to the collaboration applied. Therefore, given such equilibrium in the society, it would be difficult to have chaos because the people's ego is balanced with the society's expectations. A new “way of thinking” is possible that brings together art and science (Ma, 2014). As a result, this helps in enhancing the thinking capabilities of human being hence their chances of collaboration. People can only be able to survive with a narrow bandwidth of conditions in the society because the conditions help in bringing the people together. A condition that has a wide range of differences could turn out to be difficult in terms of bringing people together. In such a situation, every person would be concerned about meeting their need without putting any consideration on the impact that their actions would have on the society. Therefore, collaboration is a very valuable aspect in the society because it acts as a guideline to a peaceful society.
In addition, Ma points out that the world of economics is facing a lot of competition. Hence, most of the schools are based on the “Science, technology, engineering and math” (Ma, 2014). The values that come along with the integration of arts in the education system help students to be free thinkers. As a result, that thinking is reflected on the outside world hence helping nations to beat the competition by coming up with new and better ideas as compared to what they have now.
Among the forms of collaborations presented by Friedman are outsourcing and open sourcing whereby a company seeks labor form another country. As a result, there is the “sharing of ideas” which makes it easy for the two countries to carry out trade effectively (Friedman 2008). Also, offshoring allows a company to transfer its business operations in other countries. This form of collaboration plays an important role in enhancing the trust between the two countries involved. The supply is also another form of collaboration whereby the involved parties have to operate within the provisions of the supply chains of one another. This makes it easy for the parties to trade with one another because they understand the challenges and risks involved in their supply chain. As well informing is another form of collaboration discussed by Friedman whereby giving out important business information legally is a great way of enhancing the growth of a business. In addition, sourcing allows the sharing of labor and business ideas. This qualifies to be a form of collaboration that reduces conflicts within organizations hence enhancing their potential for growth. These forms of collaboration have a positive impact on the trade activities of the involved countries.
In the current world, the above forms of collaboration have a positive value to the economy. This is because when countries interact with one another by mixing their personnel in trade, they end up sharing knowledge hence enhancing the chances of productive trade activities. An example is a situation whereby a construction company in the US decides to employ engineers from China. By the time the construction activity is done, the engineers from the US will have learned something new which the can implement in the US. As a result, this leads to a world that is connected by common ideas created by collaboration. The absence of collaboration would have a lot of negative impacts among nations such as cold wars. This would, in turn, bring a negative impact to the economies of the involved nations.
In addition, Friedman and Ma did not discuss the fact that collaboration plays an important role in enabling individuals to communicate their ideas effectively. Such impact of collaboration can result to a united society because people would not be scared of expressing their feelings towards the issues that are disturbing them in the society. In turn, addressing such issues could help a lot in the pre...