I came across this quote by Albert Einstein mentioned in a couple of places in the same week, and it struck my how applicable it is to Appreciative Inquiry. If you’re looking only at analysing the causes of problems, you’re…
Alfred Korzybski on belief and skepticism
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” – Alfred Korzybski Polish-American philosopher and scientist, creator of the theory of ‘General Semantics’, big influence on NLP,…
Meetings – thought for the day
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.