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Leading towards goals
An anonymous, reported by Ilead365 (http://www.ilead365.com/) spends some words on co-operation and different dynamics within a team. Among this is said that “[...] When everyone is in agreement, no one has really thought it through”.
Of course, co-operating within a team is one of the key to success. But be aware: is one of the success factors.
Working with a goal (more or less shared) gives you a boost in productivity that is an enabler for success.
But this sort of close correlation between team and individuals, has the embedded risk that people tend to allign thereself to leading ideas, no longer examining ideas critically.
Under this name (better known as “groupthinking”) fall many engraving of the same “evil” (joking…lol) stone that cover
a) focusing over a shared enemy (we as a team against all others): this concept doesn’t work fully, because people tend to accept same idea without discussing it, just because is the group one
b) accepting the “alfa” idea: this doesn’t work because also leaders can make errors and some discussion can be healthy also for better and winning ideas
c) unrealism: this is obviously not working, but supported from he group, the idea can be perceived by the group as real.
As a general behaviour, I see that frequently is easier for people to follow a thought and find ways to support it than thinking a brand new idea.
But effort is quite the same.
Is one of our society problems: little makers and lot of followers that refuse any discussion.
But unleashing this potential is not so difficult: try to stimulate the discussion by gradually forcing everyone to express idea.
I do it generally having people writing down separately their contribution and summarizing it on a flip board trying to categorize them if possible.
Then discussion starts little by little.
Ending relationships (business and non)
An anonymous, reported by Ilead365 (http://www.ilead365.com/) spends some words on necessity to use lists in order to understand the need to close a relationship.
The situation is discussed for personal relations, but some of the thoughts apply also for business relationships.
The starting point is reflecting on when (and why and how) people are morelikely to end a relationship (on an average, the frequency is definitely higher after a holiday).
The suggestion is to write down a list of pros and cons to understand the real situation.
Of course is a method like others, but it has some problems because is strictly linked to a ptoblem of these days: fast pace.
The reason for braking a relationship more frequently after a holiday is because in these moments you’re forced to take a rest from fast paced life and real thoughts emerge.
I think we cannot make a rational decision for something not rational (because leaving a business or a company or a person is not rational at full).
And jotting down pros and cons is a way to put your mind in a standby for a while to think and understand the situation.
Think and then do is the key.
Real geniuses thoughts
The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Lichtenburg
Offline and productive!
Gina Trapani, smart as usual, at Harvard Business outlines some increases in productivity that could be achieved in case of an email outage (full article at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/trapani/2009/09/turn-an-email-outage-into-a-pr.html).
My former boss taught me a lesson very important for me.
If you work on a computer, with everything “digital”, sometimes you “do” and you think (quite) at same time. This is not necessarily the most productive way to work.
Sometimes, especially when you need to express thoughts, concepts and ideas, is better to close PC, grab some sheets of paper and start writing down. Only after go back to PC and put everything in your favorite tool.
So I add one thing to Gina’s list: in case of email outage or (in an extended way, of no technology available), get back to your thinking and start working for a while without having the rush of making your work “digitally available” in minutes.
This post as a comment also at http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/trapani/2009/09/turn-an-email-outage-into-a-pr.html
Harver’s Law
A drunken man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
There we are
This morning I looked at my little baby.
She had been ill for an entire week whith high temperature.
She had just woke up and she smiled at me, because she had no fever and throat was much better.
Wonderful sensation and worth of living every second of this.
And also I see that seems that a little bit at a time, the global crisis is passing.
Ok It’s not completely passed, but seems better.
Just like my daughter’s fever.
Stand up everybody and make a big optimistic smile.
We are here and we’re stronger than problems.
The sound of silence
I just found this article on an italian news paper (http://www.corriere.it/cronache/09_maggio_07/barconi_migranti_libia_66af9282-3ad8-11de-b512-00144f02aabc.shtml ) just telling that UN are complaining because Italy sent back to Libya 227 people that tried to enter as aliens in Italy.
That could be fine or not.
That could be good or not.
That could be polite or not.
But it’s what we decided to do. And I think that the whole world should take a little bit of respect on our opinions and actions.
We are not happy to act like these, but, in a certain way, we are obliged to react in such extreme manner. There are some rules and laws that are valid in the same way for everyone in our country. And we expect everybody to respect them.
This doesn’t mean we are racist or that we need to be treated as that by UN.
Where were all those people feeling enabled to comment on our matters when Malta refused to accept another boat and Italy took care of them?
I think that only few people know in depth how Italy is dealing with immigration and emergency. And quite all of them are Italian.
This is a (sad) starting point but, in general, teaches me that in these globalization era we are facing among the others two different trends:
- on one side we have the great power of communication, with the ability and the retrieve and be aware of as much informations as never have been in the story of mankind. But no information makes sense without context and explanation.
- on the other side we are tempted to express our thoughts on everything, basically reading the information, but ignoring (or at least poorly knowing the context). But expressing thoughts in a poorly defined context could be highly misleading.
For example I know quite well US, but I’m feeling really not confident to comment on the majority of their internal or external affairs. And so I don’t comment them. Just because I do these I exepect others to behave the same way.
Sometimes is better to stay in silence than start talking.
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