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SUMMARY:Life in Conflict - Dr Mark de Rond\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nUsing original photographs and film footage from h
 is fieldwork with deployed military surgical teams in Camp Bastion\, Afgha
 nistan\, Dr de Rond explores the lived experience of conflict in the world
 's bloodiest war hospital. He will argue that the sources of conflict are 
 not restricted to a hospital's perimeters\, but endemic to teams of high p
 erformers\, including surgical teams. These sources of conflict are ever-p
 resent\, and occasioned by the paradoxes of life at any frontier: the coex
 istence of meaningfulness and yet futility\, cooperation and yet competiti
 on too\, selflessness and selfishness\, trust and vigilance\, adrenaline-f
 ueled pleasure and guilt\, and their consequences for psychological safety
  and\, ultimately\, personal and patient welfare. He will conclude that th
 ese sources of conflict cannot generally be reconciled: they are inevitabl
 e and also necessary. Our human plight seems to be that of reconciling our
 selves to them as best we might. \n\nBiography\n\nMark de Rond is Reader i
 n Strategy and Organization at Judge Business School\, Cambridge Universit
 y. He studies teams of high performers the old fashioned way: by living wi
 th them under similar conditions. His first book\, on drug discovery colla
 borations\, received the 2005 George R Terry Book Award from the Academy o
 f Management\, making him the youngest-ever recipient. His second book\, b
 ased on his observations of the Cambridge University Boat Race squad was s
 imultaneously selected by The Financial Times as one of 12 Best Business B
 ooks of 2008\, and by BBC Sport as one of 10 Best Sporting Reads of 2008. 
 His work has featured in TIME magazine\, The Economist\, The Financial Tim
 es\, The Times\, The Week\, The Independent\, The Telegraph and The Guardi
 an\, as well as on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. His third book will 
 be published by Harvard Business School Press in July 2012. 
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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