New Opinions Suspect, Feedback and Greatness
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
  If you have ever shared a unique view or opinion and experienced a less than enthusastic reception for it… here may be the reason.  “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”  John Locke Â
( Think about poor Galileo suggesting that the Earth was not the center of things?!! http://www.scienceandyou.org/articles/ess_02.shtml )Â
Read a great post this morning by Michael Hyatt on trusting in people’s strengths when they are in the need of some potentially hard feedback. To read his excellent post click here or on this link. http://michaelhyatt.com/2010/02/standing-for-the-greatness-of-others.html
My comment in response to his post was this… People don’t confront difficult situations because they fear it will get worse if they do. They have never seen a successful model of such a confrontation. Instead they have seen arguements, felt contention or worse. There are 2 wonderful books on the subject. “Crucial Conversations, Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High” by the Vital Smarts group. And “Leadership and Self Deception” by the Arbinger Group.
Kirk Out
