In response to Jo and Doc I thought I'd offer the following from
something I once wrote called: Change Management: The Columbo Method
http://www.radix.net/~crbnblu/assoc/bellingr/columbo/columbo.htm
Regarding manipulation, I wrote this long ago.
You can attempt to get blood out of a stone.
You can attempt to motivate a stone to give blood.
You can empower a stone to motivate itself to give blood.
You can inspire a stone to empower itself to motivate itself
to give blood.
You can embolden a stone to inspire itself to empower itself
to motivate itself to give blood.
You can ennoble a stone to embolden itself to inspire itself
to empower itself to motivate itself to give blood.
What you have is simply varying degrees of subtle manipulation. And
people don't like to be manipulated, even when its in their own best
interest. Which gets us around to the concept of freedom, but that's
another article, yet very closely related and quite systemic in its
implications.
be well,
-- Gene Bellinger OutSights, Inc. creating new insights through outside perspectives http://www.outsights.com/
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