Content and Practices for this list LO22228

Peter Fullerton (peterxyz@ozemail.com.au)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:09:38 +1000

Replying to LO22133 --

Rick

Questions being played with on the list at the moment: does excessive
politeness keep us from moving to different, useful, conversations here.
And: does the volume and length of replies shape the way the LO system
works and what it pays attention to. I think it does. So I feel rather
dismayed by those who say, "well, nothing's stopping you from writing in;
if you have something to say, say it". For me, long posters also do
themselves a disservice because they are less effective in communicating
their ideas if lots of people bypass their posts.

"External auditory" comes from Neuro Linguistic Programming - the basic
propositions of which I think are very sound, but the ways in which they
have been extended and used can be a bit loopy to say the least. External
auditories are people who process thoughts in highly literal,
conversational ways and, indeed, often do so through conversation: that
is, high energy, thinking aloud. Often the only way to shut them up is to
tell them to shut up for a while. Typically, they occupy lots of airtime
when in group settings; at the same time, their energy is often very
valuable. Getting through to external auditories is best done by telling
them, and doing so directly. Hence my query about the keyboard equivalent
of external auditories.

And, like many others, I think you do a marvellous job as moderator. My
hypothesis is that at times you may be overly-cautious about tension and
conflict. (Which, of course, says as much about me as about you.) One of
the devils in organisational life, I believe, is that we take our real
feelings about our organisations and the groups to which we belong
off-line (for a number of reasons), and therefore deny the whole system or
group the chance to make sense of the important information this contains
and in the process unintentionally limit the options for action in the
system.

regards
Peter

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