My friend Tim Merry found this gem, from a 1944 CIA manual on how to perfrom acts of simple sabotage. With tongue in cheek, this would make an excellent set of guidelines to reflect on at the start of a meeting. Engaging in any of these behaviours will immediately cause all of us to be suspicious of your motives and employer. More seriously, I’m going to be teaching university students dialogue and hosting methods next week and will share this with them for sure.
in most of our leadership training work and our strategic work with Harvest Moon, we devote at least a half day to working with limiting beleifs using a process developed by Byron Katie called simply The Work. At its simplest, the work is a process of inquiring into limiting beliefs that are unhelpful in our work and lives. Such beliefs often include judgements, ideologies and other beliefs that prevent us from really seeing the reality we are dealing with. Some of these beliefs are so strong that we take them for granted – such as “Richard shouldn’t have punched Eric” …