Seeing each other as objects - 2 views
"If we start seeing each other as objects, we'll get to the point where we'll need to see each other as disagreeable rather than as simply disagreeing. Once that happens, we'll end up provoking ea...
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"If we start seeing each other as objects, we'll get to the point where we'll need to see each other as disagreeable rather than as simply disagreeing. Once that happens, we'll end up provoking ea...
Question: What happens when you start a sentence with, "I'm sorry"? Answer: Peace
True, true, true...
Great idea - I think I will as well.
"The more we can find our way to the out-of-the-box vantage points within us, the more readily we will be able to shine the light on the in-the-box justifications we are carrying." (Leadership & Se...
Challenging and beautiful!
This is hard to do. You keep seeing what you want to see instead of being objective. Definitely will need to keep working on this.
We all have the same problem.
"Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you." (Hilary Weeks)
"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." (Robert Frost)
The general principle: One person can give offense only if the other will take offense.
"Manager is one corporation that was riddled with collusions called this 'the monster system' Another and most ugly word for it is war." (Bonds That Make Us Free) Where and with whom are you at war?
That worked well in some cases with POD & Planning job shadowing each other.
"Sooner or later you run out of excuses. Healing comes when we take extraordinary responsibility for our emotions and attitudes. Healing comes when we cease to excuse ourselves by blaming others."
"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...
Thanks Joe. Unfortunately, I don't have the knack for quotes and quoting like you and Brian, but I do remember experiences, stories and processes. Thanks for asking us what would help this board ...
"The question for you as the leader is whether you are going to create an environment that is as enjoyable for your people as it is for you - a place that they are as excited about and devoted to a...
"In the moment we cease resisting others, we're out of the box - liberated from self-justifying thoughts and feelings. This is why the way out of the box is always right before our eyes - because ...
"Try to see the good in people (especially those with whom we disagree): People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and persecutions while the world lasts" (Dorothy L. Sayers)
I'm beginning to see that we can come at a problem from an "out-of-the-box" way of being, but if we have a problem statement that frames the problem from an "in-the-box" perspective we wind up solv...