Excellent work - Doug and Beverly. Keep going; I am looking forward to your progress!
started by Joe Bennett on 04 Aug 14
3 follow-ups, last by Joe Bennett on 06 Aug 14
Kyle was a regional leader for a large US telecomm. With responsibilities for operations across multiple states, he spent most of his time on the road visiting one store after another to ensure qua...
Sacrifices When life is difficult for us, we notice. Sometimes the only way we notice that life is hard for our other person is when they complain about it. We chalk it up to a bad attitude or g...
Vulnerability Okay, this may be a tough one. But I think we see the truth of this demonstrated time and again. How vulnerable have you been with your other person? And how safe have you made the...
We shouldn't believe everything that our thoughts and feelings are telling us about ourselves and others. In fact, the more our thoughts and feelings keep obsessing on others' faults, for example, ...
When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and...
"We can't feel justified in witholding kindness from others unless we find, or invent, some reason why they deserve it - some deficiency or despicable characteristic that requires us to ignore or c...
"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. The 'indignant' person has fo...
Our true feelings always "leak". No doubt about it.
started by Joe Bennett on 11 Jun 13
1 follow-up, last by Brian Suszek on 11 Jun 13
Those darn PIR notes that quality sends out. I get myself into a box a box when my name is on many of the PIRs! I get angry, I get defensive; but worst of all I send out notes to my direct report...
From Chapter 2 of Leadership & Self Deception This is Bud asking Tom a question: "Do you feel you have to 'put up' with people? Do you feel - honestly, now - that you have to work pretty hard to ...
When I feel stuck in any given relationship, the key to getting out is to find the out-of-the-box vantage points within me from where I can think and feel clearly - out-of-the-box places that I hav...
Without opening ourselves to another's humanity, we cannot get ourselves emotionally unstuck no matter how we might try. We cannot do it by denying or repressing our feelings or by willing ourselve...
You cannot change your other person. As much as you may want to, you cannot play God and reach into their heart and mold them into what you want them to be. But isn't that what we spend a large p...
Gail - let us know how it goes.
Impossibility Much of what we have attempted to do so far may sometimes feel like it falls into the category of the impossible. "There is no way that I can reconcile with him!" or "I can't bring ...
Gail, it was definitely not you!! :)
Go Gail, Go!
I agree! I will definitely need to revisit (and revisit, and revisit...) I continue to struggle with "who" I need to let go so, continued evaluation is necessary. Thanks for leading this Joe!!!
