By Ana Lepri
There is a humorous 1-1/2 minute video called Masi, Me Tiro which
is winning awards around the world. It has inspired me to reflect on
how we listen to others. The characters demonstrate that our listening
is often filtered through our personal judgments and preconceptions of
others. This filtering limits our ability to listen. We find ourselves
reacting to what’s being said and to who we think they are based on our
history and their identity (or appearance). We are prisoners of our
stories about them. We are not really listening to what the other person
is saying. In the video, the two men are trapped inside their own circular
conversations, unable to hear or validate the other person except inside
the interpretation they have of them. They react to each other without
listening.[ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
I was working with a group of people last
week in Mexico. The session was about planning and they chose as their
theme for the year “I am my word”. The idea was to emphasize
‘count-on-ability’ and the importance of delivering on plans. I spoke
to them for a bit and shared the following reflections.[ Read More]
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
Traditionally, a generation was defined as the time between the birth
of parents and the birth of their offspring (about 30 years). Recently,
however, a more accurate definition would be a group of people born and
shaped by a particular span of time. The eras of Generations X, Y and Z
span much less than two decades each. And every generation experiences
life from a different perspective including changing societal values,
technologies and career options. These different perspectives are very
apparent when we communicate with each other. [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Of great influence in my thinking has been The Urban Shaman
by Serge Kahlili King. One of his assertions was that “energy flows
where the attention goes.” My work was always shaped by where the CEO
or the leader was putting his or her attention. My life is shaped by
where I’m putting my attention. And with everybody I knew, their lives
were affected by where they placed their attention. What I hadn’t seen
before was that energy accompanied attention and that certain kinds of
attention enhanced energy. In organizations, outward results can be
directly linked to the energy created from where the attention flows. [ Read More]
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I went to an interesting exhibition called “Babylon” at the Louvre*
over the weekend. A lot of the explanations were in French, so I am
sure I missed a lot of the factual history. What was clear was the
mythology surrounding the Tower of Babel that God supposedly destroyed
when the civilization became too decadent. As I recall, this account
heralds the beginning of disparate languages and the considerable
miscommunication that has been going on between human beings every
since. We’ve been working a lot recently on the formation of the Eldering Institute,
which is, among other things, focused on promoting “multigenerational
collaboration” (which of course implies intergenerational
communication).[ Read More]
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There is value in distinguishing ‘politically correct’ ways to speak
about people who might otherwise be ignored in our collective ‘blind
spot’. Such speaking can highlight inequity and discrimination and
raise our awareness of those areas where our actions and our values
don’t line up—where we aren’t walking our talk! [ Read More]
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Most of the attempts to categorize people who are older (“temporally
challenged”, seniors, golden oldies and so forth) are usually attempts
to find a label to make a state or condition that most people relate to
as ‘negative’ seem nicer. Ronni Bennett has some interesting thoughts about language
and how our labels often reveal a lot about how we observe and relate
to others and the world in general. I agree with her that most of it is
nonsense, and I like the term Elder.[ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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