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On Sunday 13 January 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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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 |
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> > with never having realised that people are not machines, do not |
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> > react like machines and need to be handled differently. You |
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> > maintain machines by focusing on what is wrong with them and |
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> > changing that. You handle people by focusing on what they do right |
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> > and reinforcing that. |
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> > I used to do what Ciaran does, and I used to do it a *lot*. Lucky |
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> > for me, one day someone came along with a very big stick and |
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> > hammered it 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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hehehe, spoken like a true African - direct, blunt and to the point :-) |
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The technique worked though! |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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