The ability to understand and harmonize interests depends first and foremost on your perceptive powers.
Even when their positions seem irreconcilable, warring nations and squabbling companies can succeed in negotiations by harmonizing their interests.
Many leading economists still have a vision of the invisible hand satisfying wants, equating costs with benefits, and otherwise harmonizing the interests of the many.
By harmonizing the interests of land and security, Egypt and Israel ultimately agreed to a set of measures that gave Israel a sufficient level of security to agree to return the Sinai to Egypt (see also, Focus on Interests, Not On Rights).
John Middleton Clayton, (born July 24 , 1796 Dagsboro, Del., U.S. died Nov. 9, 1856, Dover, Del ., U.S. public official best known for his part in negotiating the Clayton Bulwer Treaty (1850), aimed at harmonizing U.S. British interests in Central America.
While it recognizes a pivotal role for boards of directors in harmonizing the interests of shareholders and other stakeholders, it also assumes that shareholders and other stakeholders have more shared objectives than differences namely, they have the same basic interest in facilitating sustainable, long-term value creation.
In Russia, for example, with its technological and economic stratification in the agricultural sector, there are no mechanisms for harmonizing the interests of key decision-makers in regards to the evaluation of projected agribusiness projects and their solvency (Zaharov 2006; Kalugina 2011; Vasina 2012).
Still, it is the Hardy Boys element of companionship that makes "Chaos Theory" appealing: Jason and Dennis reaching across the racial divide to help each other out of a pickle, as Graham Rourke continues his musings about race in Washington: "Could people like Graham and the Monroes ever hope to harmonize their interests, or even remotely understand each other's interests?
On the constructivist interpretation, Xunzi holds a functional conception of morality, according to which it is invented to harmonize the interests of individuals and to constrain and transform the heedless pursuit of short-term gratification for the sake of promoting the long-term interests of the individual and the group.
The board's defenders argue plausibly that by accommodating the five boroughs' needs, it harmonizes the interests of a vast metropolis.
What's more, even if we somehow could effectively aggregate, rank or harmonize our interests and direct a single leader to implement the public's will, we still should resist the temptation to do so.
