Leadership Out-of-the-box - 3 views
"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...
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"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)
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 ...
Great idea - I think I will as well.
That worked well in some cases with POD & Planning job shadowing each other.
Our true feelings always "leak". No doubt about it.
"As long as our feelings are accusing, whatever we do will smell of accusation." (Bonds That Make Us Free)
"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...
"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."
"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?
The general principle: One person can give offense only if the other will take offense.
"Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves." (Robert Frost)
"Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you." (Hilary Weeks)
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.