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Agendas… help us to maintain emotional control. They are our first line of defense in this regard, our surefire means of staying on track.
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Old-school business views the expression of emotions and compassion as vulnerability; today’s new businesspeople see such attributes as the glue that binds us.
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“Sometimes, all it requires is taking an interest and providing emotional support.”
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What truly moves us as human beings, what prompts us into action, is emotion.
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A successful mentoring relationship needs equal parts utility and emotion. You can’t simply ask somebody to be personally invested in you. There has to be some reciprocity involved…
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When a clash gets personal or emotional, we become self-righteous preachers of our own views, spiteful prosecutors of the other side, or single-minded politicians…
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For those on the fence, when forced to choose a side, the emotional, political, and economic pressures tilt in favor of disengaging or dismissing the problem.
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In a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft. Like art, emotions are works in progress. It rarely serves us well to frame our first sketch.
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It helps to remember that we can fall victim to binary bias with emotions, not only with issues.
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Fear may breed anger, and anger, fear. Emotions may quickly bring a negotiation to an impasse or an end.
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