When your heart is right - 2 views
"We jump forward willingly, even when what is required seems difficult physically or mentally or even financially. Such willingness expresses our innately considerate and generous nature. When ou...
This is our learning organization tribe for those of us who want to pursue the Arbinger Outward Mindset principles and behaviors
"We jump forward willingly, even when what is required seems difficult physically or mentally or even financially. Such willingness expresses our innately considerate and generous nature. When ou...
All that we can do is give others a safe place and live our best selves.
"...there are two ways to be hard. I can engage in hard behaviors and be either in the box or out of the box when I do them. The distinction isn't behavior. It's the way I'm being when I am doin...
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...
Well said Anne!
"I believe that the first test of a great person is humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of one's own power. But really great people have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them,...
A paraphrase from Leadership & Self Deception - "A family, a company - both are organizations of people. That's what we know and live by at Tweddle. Just remember, we won't know who we work and l...
"The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face." (William Makepeace Thackeray)
1. Don't try to be perfect. Do try to be better. 2. Don't use the vocabulary - "the box', and so on - with people who don't already know it. Do use the principles in your own life. 3. Don't look ...
Living for the good of everyone! Absolutely!
"So your success as a leader depends on being free of self-betrayal. Only then do you invite others to be free of self-betrayal. Only then are you creating leaders yourself - coworkers whom peopl...
Excellent point!
"Being out of the box actually allows a person to be able to assign or assess responsibility with clarity, and the reason for that is because his vision is not clouded by the box." (Leadership & S...
Fantastic! Yes! I see that.
Seeing others as people does not necessarily put a claim on my life that I must do everything I feel I should do for others. As Leadership & Self Deception puts it, "We simply do the best we can u...
They seem freeing to me. Free to not necessarily do everything I feel would be ideal.
"People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them." (Epicetus)
I like the example they use in Leadership & Self Deception to help us with this issue. They are talking about driving a car and seeing the other drivers as people - does that create an overwhelmin...
"We jump forward willingly, even when what is required seems difficult physically or mentally or even financially. Such willingness expresses our innately considerate and generous nature. When ou...
"Blaming or scapegoating someone always implies the claim that we would have done better in their shoes. It's a way of protesting our innocence and brightening our self-esteem." (David Cayley)