Tag: Assumptions
Wisdom for Teams #11


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“I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.”
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STAN DALE (1929-2007), radio broadcaster, writer, teacher, and founder of the Human Awareness Institute.
Wisdom for Teams #10


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“If you want to change the results,
you need to change the mindset that
causes you to behave the way you do.”
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ROGER SCHWARZ, leadership team consultant, speaker, organizational psychologist, and author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results.
You Can’t, Until You Have To


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In my years as a volunteer in jails, I always hated talking to someone on their first day. What the hell do you say? To my point, in seven years volunteering, EVERY person I spoke to on their first day told me:
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I can’t do this.
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The irony was inevitable and piercing: Of course we can’t do this. We’re not made for imprisonment. But then again there was no other choice. The following week I’d come back. There we were again. Sad, sometimes angered, maybe bitter, but they no longer thought: I can’t do this. This a hard truth of life:
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We can’t, until we have to.
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Christmas is around the corner. Of course none of us were made for this year’s Christmas. But what’s our alternative? When we catch ourselves thinking: I can’t do this, let us remember: We will, if we have to.
A Story About Assumptions, Surprises, and More


Photo courtesy of One Day Web Group
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In the year 2004-2005, I worked as a hospital chaplain, the priest that visits patients at the hospital. It was a year of great learning. This story is conceivably my greatest lesson learnt.
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This was recorded as part of a storytelling evening organised by Lukas Liebich. You can learn more about it here: https://www.facebook.com/events/59426…