Creating a Reality That Doesn’t Exist
Aug 3 Carolann Jacobs on August 3rd, 2010
As humans, we make sense of our world through story. In other words, we create a reality for ourselves that doesn’t exist, in reality. I attended a workshop last weekend with Human Change Technology Expert, S. Lane Pierce, and he cited Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience who theorizes that [...]
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Can’t Stand Working With That Jerk
Jul 15 Carolann Jacobs on July 15th, 2010
As a managewhich, one of the more frustrating challenges is dealing with people who do not play nicely together in the sandbox. Most of managewhich’s deal with it in one of three very ineffective ways: Ignore it, and hope it goes away. Do their best to separate them, so that there is minimal disruption [...]
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The Fact and The Fundamental Lie (Part 3)
Jun 1 Carolann Jacobs on June 1st, 2009
Where we left off in part two, Janice*, the manager of her company’s governance group, has provided Rhonda*, a program manager who works for Janice, with some feedback about her performance. …which started with “You are always trying to undermine me.” The conversation degenerated into Janice trying to tell Rhonda all the ways that her [...]
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The Fact is Also the Fundamental Lie (Part Two)
May 29 Carolann Jacobs on May 29th, 2009
In part one of this post, we left Janice* and Rhonda* in Janice’s office. Janice, the manager of her company’s governance group, is furious that Rhonda, who works for her, has been circumventing the process that the PMO is supposed to be enforcing. Furthermore, I’d learned in out initial complimentary consultation that Janice has built [...]
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The Fact is Also the Fundamental Lie (Part One)
May 26 Carolann Jacobs on May 26th, 2009
We humans are a complex bunch. We haven’t quite evolved to where our pre-frontal cortex can separate out fact from perception, as much as we might think and believe that we have. I haven’t. You haven’t. So, what does that mean and why should you care? Well, whenever we have a difference of opinion we [...]
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