The second Guideline follows, at least to a great extent, from the first. It, too, is a part of commitment.
Seems obvious, right? Doesn’t everyone come “ready and willing to participate?” Most of us have had experiences in which this is not true. Some people do not participate for a wide variety of reasons.
In this post, we will begin to address the third Guideline of Solution-Building, one based on the principle of courtesy:
This should be a no-brainer, right? Unfortunately, that is often not the way people act with and towards each other.
At the end of the last entry in this series, I said we would look at how we implement:
A short sidestep: a look at current issues in decision-making and how Solution-Building™ can play an important role
A short sidestep: a look at current issues in decision-making and how Solution-Building™ can play an important role, continued.
In my last post, I made the point that in times of chaos, uncertainty, and crisis, the need for careful, calm, rational, informed, and clear decisions becomes acute. If those responsible for making those decisions, as well as others who then must see that they are carried out, fail to do that, the result may well be disaster. For a business, that could mean anything from poor performance to bankruptcy. For a society, the result could be social upheaval, a change in government, or even something worse.
A short sidestep: a look at current issues in decision-making and how Solution-Building™ can play an important role, continued.
Let’s look at decisions made in the current Covid-19 pandemic and how Solution-Building could have been applied.
Let’s now move back to our discussion of the Solution-Building Guidelines and look at number 4, which is based on the basic concept of commitment as well as courtesy:
In this post I will be looking at the next of the Solution-Building Guidelines:
While all the Guidelines are about the three principles of commitment, objectivity, and courtesy, this one really touches on objectivity.
So far, in discussing the Guidelines, we’ve been talking about various aspects of the attitudes with which we go into decision-making meetings. To recap, those Guidelines were:
In the last post, I discussed the various aspects of personality that interact in many ways to dictate how our personality manifests itself. Those aspects were ego, id, superego, and alter ego. The fact is, we rarely talk about anything but ego, and unless we are trained in psychology we are ill-equipped to see that what we call “ego” is actually that manifestation of the four-component interaction.