
It took me a long time to get round to reading Six Thinking Hats, but finally after 25 years of corporate training I took the plunge. I was expecting a brainstorming process, because that’s how I had most often heard…
In most meetings, pride or caution still forbids one to say what one feels most deeply.
– Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History Of Humanity
I think he’s talking about ‘meetings’ in the sense of everyday human encounters, but it’s probably at least as true about business meetings.