quick to assasinate what they do not understand

“Group Think: They who play it safe, are quick to assasinate what they do not understand.They move in packs. Ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups. Less guilt to swallow. They are us. This is what we have become. Afraid to respect the individual. A single person within a circumstance can move one to change. To love herself. To evolve.”

Erykah Badu, Window Seat


Thoughts on excuses and accusations in leadership.



My answer was always the same.






Yet the employee believes what they said!

In my experience there is only one solution. Educate them on fallacies and communication BEFORE they use them on you. It doesn’t always work, but at least it might. Education is the first step. Â BecauseÂ common fallacies are, well, common. Read on my fellow leaders, and cut yourself some slack. It really isn’t you. It was the shot where they set you up that caused the problem.

Set him before me; let me see his face.

Soothsayer. Caesar! red dragon

Caesar. Ha! who calls?

Casca. Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!

I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,

Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.

Caesar. What man is that?





Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.



pseudo friendliness and overt joviality


Beyond Culture, Edward T. Hall, pg 234

what they believe they are capable of attaining

“There also is a fallacy in the assumption that all wants must be satisfied to minimize discontent. out smith's window Discontent is not a function of the discrepancy between what men want and what they have, but between what they want and what they believe they are capable of attaining. If their means are few or threatened, they are likely to revolt; if they obtain new means they can work to satisfy their wants.

Concessions also can have unintended effects, however. Temporary palliatives are likely to reinforce a return to violence once their narcotic effect wears off. If men fight to preserve what they have, concessions that remove the threat to it are sufficient. If they rebel to satisfy new or intensified expectations, the only efffective concession is to provide them with the means adequate to those expectations…

But political violence is comprehensible, which should make it neither necessary nor inevitable, but capable of resolution”

– Why Men Rebel, Ted Robert Gurr, pg 359