What I like about this is how it separates intent from default behavior. Most people don’t choose ‘bad management’ per se. They choose the fastest option under pressure, and that usually becomes the normal pattern.
Sometimes I default to male mode which seemed to fit D more often than not especially #5 which is a classic men are from mars response - the correct counter thrust is to say no and patiently wait for the mental gears to be changed as we don't have a clutch in our brains and have the grumble is the grind while we try to change from going forward into reverse.
Actually I used Men are from Mars in testing out leadership techniques on men and found most of its suggestions worked.
Oddly enough I read an essay a couple of days later about how terrible a man the author was, how unqualified he was and other general character assassination comments - personally I used the section where it says men don't have a clutch in their brains so when you ask them to do something they start to grumble which is the sound of the brain gears having to change - if you just pause and let them do the gear shift they'll go do it but if you complain about the grumbling or say fine I'll do it then they will slip back into what they were doing and not move - I personally found that helpful and learned to just pause and let men grumble and then watch them mostly get on with doing what I asked for - good value for me
Gosh, I've been applying it without knowing!! I never step in immediately and do it. I leave it for a while and see if things happen - and more often than not they do. You just have to learn to live with the grumbling!
I was hoping to give people a little to think about - which is often a luxury and is also why we develop default settings. Apologies for the delay in responding - I've been fortunate enough to have a couple of weeks doing as little as possible in a foreign locations. Hope you've had a good weekend Neela
Loved the ending as I was mostly B but on occasion would drift to a D - there was a couple where I would do multi choice - like #6 where I would first go C then B as I'd want to make sure I was picking up the person correctly - my wife reads people better than I and will often point out the circumstance that could be contributing to the offness - like they have a baby and of course they are exhausted - I've found it safer to curb my assumptions.
I'm not surprised at the mostly B result for you David. Assumptions are a blessing and a curse - a great example of fast thinking - but we need to be able to apply the handbrake so as to not miss something important.
What I like about this is how it separates intent from default behavior. Most people don’t choose ‘bad management’ per se. They choose the fastest option under pressure, and that usually becomes the normal pattern.
Happy Tuesday evening to you Tina.
Sometimes I default to male mode which seemed to fit D more often than not especially #5 which is a classic men are from mars response - the correct counter thrust is to say no and patiently wait for the mental gears to be changed as we don't have a clutch in our brains and have the grumble is the grind while we try to change from going forward into reverse.
Actually I used Men are from Mars in testing out leadership techniques on men and found most of its suggestions worked.
“Grumble is the grind” - love it.
I get what you mean about default modes. Most people are running whatever software got installed earliest and most often. Lived Behavior.
I'd like to know more about how you used Men are from Mars - it sounds like a very useful application.
Oddly enough I read an essay a couple of days later about how terrible a man the author was, how unqualified he was and other general character assassination comments - personally I used the section where it says men don't have a clutch in their brains so when you ask them to do something they start to grumble which is the sound of the brain gears having to change - if you just pause and let them do the gear shift they'll go do it but if you complain about the grumbling or say fine I'll do it then they will slip back into what they were doing and not move - I personally found that helpful and learned to just pause and let men grumble and then watch them mostly get on with doing what I asked for - good value for me
Gosh, I've been applying it without knowing!! I never step in immediately and do it. I leave it for a while and see if things happen - and more often than not they do. You just have to learn to live with the grumbling!
I was hoping to give people a little to think about - which is often a luxury and is also why we develop default settings. Apologies for the delay in responding - I've been fortunate enough to have a couple of weeks doing as little as possible in a foreign locations. Hope you've had a good weekend Neela
Loved the ending as I was mostly B but on occasion would drift to a D - there was a couple where I would do multi choice - like #6 where I would first go C then B as I'd want to make sure I was picking up the person correctly - my wife reads people better than I and will often point out the circumstance that could be contributing to the offness - like they have a baby and of course they are exhausted - I've found it safer to curb my assumptions.
I'm not surprised at the mostly B result for you David. Assumptions are a blessing and a curse - a great example of fast thinking - but we need to be able to apply the handbrake so as to not miss something important.
Missed you this week have I
Aww, thanks