Trigger Question #140: Are You Being Kind or Just Being Your Kind?
When you keep to your kind, you are excluding many people. You are being unkind to those who are not your kind.
26 Nov 20243min
Trigger Question #139: Are You the Beetle or the Dung?
Here's what still worries me. When is it dung and when is it something useful? When is it nonsense and when is it sense? And who decides which is which?
25 Nov 20242min
Trigger Question #138: Did Fear Stop You Taking a Guess?
Often we hesitate to answer because we fear. This fear is understandable when we are young and inexperienced. But it makes less sense when we are older and wiser.
22 Nov 20243min
Trigger Question #137: Who Was Angry When You Felt Angry?
If your attitude is to choose to be your anger, then you will react in anger. Which seldom ends well. But if you look at the situation differently so that you can choose your attitude to be "I feel an...
21 Nov 20243min
Insight #341: How To Rule With Empathy
Before you judge someone for breaking your rules, make sure you understand *why* they broke your rules. Because if they broke your rules properly, then it is probably time for you to judge your rules ...
20 Nov 20243min
Trigger Question #136: Does Your Focus on Action Obstruct Action?
The problem is two-fold. First, you can probably do it faster and smarter. And second, you are itching to jump in and get it done. Because you're a manager. It's your nature to get things done.
19 Nov 20242min
Trigger Question #135: Do You Say We or Do You Say I?
I am never surprised when leaders use we-talk when things go badly, and I-talk when things go well. Disappointed, yes. But never surprised.
18 Nov 20242min
Trigger Question #134: Do You Team Up With Your Opposite?
We still discourage diversity. Why? Because uniformity is easier to manage. Because diversity is discomforting, hence inconvenient.
15 Nov 20243min
