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Posted in communication, tagged books, News on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Positive People Attract People
Posted in communication, tagged communication, happy, positive on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Nobody wants to hang around a loser, except bigger losers.”
It sounds like a cliche from an 80’s High School movie, but to a certain extent it’s true. If you want to be successful, seek out people who are already successful. If you want to make friends, seek out people who have a lot of friends. [...]
Opposing Views
Posted in communication, tagged communication, conflict, disagreement, opinion, viewpoint on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What should we do in a professional situation when we don’t share another persons point of view? Should we defend our own position or adopt the other person’s standpoint? Should we try to convince and cajoll? Should we overule and squash the other person by laying down the law? Of course, this is dependent on [...]
Conflict!
Posted in communication, tagged arguments, conflict, fighting on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today there was a small conflict at work. I was unquestionably the center of attention, i.e. the focus of the conflict was me.
The background is that a few weeks ago I was involved in requesting a change to a system. Since the person who implemented the change did not consider all the dependencies, a [...]
