Key Thoughts for April 25, 2024
meDEAS Sharing has the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for curious minds to get involved with:
David Rock How to hear someone's potential:
“Listening to potential forces you to assume that others have the ability to answer questions for themselves. Then politely look at how you can make yourself most useful. Listening to your potential is a choice every moment. Guess what will happen if you choose to listen to people who are successful, competent, and able to solve your dilemma? They often solve problems and get on with things. Quiet leaders listen to potential. They feel as if they have all the tools they need to succeed and that they can benefit from listening to people and exploring their thoughts and ideas out loud.”
source: Quiet Leadership: 6 Steps to Transforming Workplace Performance
Roger Martin About our personal knowledge system dynamics:
“Personal knowledge systems are highly path dependent. When a person starts in a certain direction, that direction is likely to be strengthened and amplified rather than diminished or changed. This can happen either for good or for bad. A narrow, defensive stance will result in acquiring very limited tools and very limited experience. That experience feeds back into acquiring more limited tools and forming more narrow positions.”
source: Opposing Minds: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
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