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On 13 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> A poorly developed sense of how to deal with other people coupled with |
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> never having realised that people are not machines, do not react like |
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> machines and need to be handled differently. You maintain machines by |
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> focusing on what is wrong with them and changing that. You handle |
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> people by focusing on what they do right and reinforcing that. |
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> I used to do what Ciaran does, and I used to do it a *lot*. Lucky for |
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> me, one day someone came along with a very big stick and hammered it |
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> through my thick skull that there is a better way. |
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And thus focused on what you were doing wrong. <grin> |
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Uwe |
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If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him, |
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is he still lying? |
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