This is our learning organization tribe for those of us who want to pursue the Arbinger Outward Mindset principles and behaviors
Here's a thought from Leadership and Self Deception on what creates long-term success for a company: "I'm not minimizing the importance of, for example, getting smart and skilled people into the co...
"A great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself." (David McCollough Jr.)
"Blaming oneself can work as an excuse just as well as blaming someone else." (Bonds That Make Us Free)
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." (Isaac Asimov)
Once we have that out-of-the-box space (a person, an event, a memory of a person, a place) we can use it to take a new perspective on our current "all hell is breaking loose" perspective.
If that's true - what needs to change?
"Betraying myself, I invite in others the very behavior I say I hate in them. And betraying themselves, they invite the very behavior they say they hate in me. We cooperate in condemning ourselve...
Here's a question for the group: What are the red flags of your awareness that you're "In-the-box"? Here are some of mine: 1. I feel victimized 2. I procrastinate 3. reclusive, avoid interaction ...
"Make no judgments where you have no compassion." (Anne McCaffrey)
When others respond poorly, or in a way that we don't like; we begin thinking about how they are a problem for us. We both may benefit if we began wondering, instead, how I am a problem for them. ...
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."- Aristotle He was no dummy.
started by Joe Bennett on 16 Jul 13
1 follow-up, last by Brian Suszek on 16 Jul 13
OK, I will!
started by Joe Bennett on 15 Jul 13
1 follow-up, last by Brian Suszek on 15 Jul 13
Fantastic! Spot on and thought provoking! I love it!!!
"Signals from others can and do penetrate, but they get warped and jumbled by the irregular texture through which they must pass. The point is that in self-betrayal, we do pay close attention to t...
Hmmmmm.... Someone will have to explain this one to me.
"This word perverse, helpfully captures the fact that the guarded, suspicious, I-It attitude is not a way of being on its own, but a twisting, distorting or misshaping of the natural, good, and gra...
This also ties into the "blindness" factor. Not that we cannot see what is going on, but that we only see what is around us through the "lens of self". I will freely admit that many times, I have b...
started by Joe Bennett on 26 Sep 13
2 follow-ups, last by Harold Wright on 27 Sep 13
