Sublime

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

“If an individual has ego needs that are too high,” notes Peter Friedes, Hewitt’s managing partner, “they can be a very disruptive influence.

The clear point here is that people operating with incomplete information appear crazy to those who have different information. Your job when faced with someone like this in a negotiation is to discover what they do not know and supply that information.

Science assures us that "If man were wiped out, it is extremely improbable that anything very similar would ever again evolve." Threat and comfort: we need only turn the particle of the earth's crust read with such eager pride to make one of the other. Here in the foremost shambles of time Mr. Pivner stood, heir to that colossus of

But I no longer believe that trust is essential to organizational functioning or even to effective leadership. Why? Because the data suggest that trust is notable mostly by its absence. Nevertheless, organizations continue to roll along, as do their leaders who seemingly suffer few consequences for being untrustworthy.

As long as there are humans, the irrational will find its voices and means of spreading. Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress.

Distrust is the fuel for abandonment rages. “He’s going to cheat on me.” “She’s going to leave me.” “They’re going to let me down.” “I can’t trust anybody.” These thoughts must be replaced, because they regularly trigger abandonment rages.

Disruption is high drama. The notion that “things work the way they work because there’s a certain logic to them” is not.

In unreliable folks, the right-brain doing self long ago learned to dismiss the left brain as an alarmist drill sergeant who’ll work them both until they drop if allowed. The planner and the doer don’t get along, and the inner self feels no obligation to heed carelessly worded instructions about which it has not even been consulted.