Home, after an extra long day due to conferences, and then a meeting called at 6:30 to discuss "issues". Good outcome, I think. Once again, I was reminded that a failure to communicate is most often the root of a lot of problems.
Here's a couple of quotes about communication that I really like:
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Leadership Skills for Managers
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
― Henry Winkler
I love that last one. In the last communication debacle I was a part of, several people assumed several other people had talked to several other people, so it ended up that nobody talked to anybody. Then when we all came together, things didn't mesh but we didn't know why. Now we know why.
Time to vegetate for awhile before calling it a night.
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