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Margaret Heffernan, the author of the book Willful Blindness this incredible TED talk you have just watched. In this brilliant talk, she shares the story of Dr. Alice Stewart from Oxford who was the first doctor to find out that the X-Ray of the pregnant women was the leading cause of n small children.

Margaret, in this talk, shares that, even though of evidence, research results and public records produced by Dr. Stewart, the authorities of European and American medical establishments took 25 years to abandon the use of X-Rays of pregnant women.

It is a fantastic talk with information about the human of avoiding conflicts. A few of the highlights of Margaret's talk I would like to paraphrase here that you might enjoy as well when you hear:

· Dare to have thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

· Constructive conflicts thinking requires that we collaborate people who are very different from ourselves and find ways to engage them.

· If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

· For the most part, organizations do not think. It's not because they don't want to, but they can't. And they can't think because the people inside of them are too afraid of conflict. They are afraid to , afraid of change, they can't think together.

· Openness alone, can't change. Openness isn't the end… it's the beginning!