by Dwayne Phillips When someone is quite specific in what they convey, they often mean the opposite. “I will inject some humor here,” often means that nothing funny will be said. “I don’t care about the money,” often means that I really do care about the money coming my way. “We are transparent here,” often […]
Entries Tagged as 'Trust'
Specifics Usually Mean the Opposite
July 29th, 2024 · No Comments
Tags: Authentic · Communication · Expectations · Respect · Trust
Hard Right, Easy Wrong
June 6th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I must have missed something in my life as the title of this post was very confusing the first time I heard it. I was being interviewed for a job. This was on the telephone. There were several people on the other end of the line. The principal interviewer asked me something […]
Tags: Accountability · Adults · Authentic · Communication · Trust
The Seemingly Under Qualified
March 7th, 2024 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips History is filled with great accomplishments accomplished by people who shouldn’t be able to accomplish them. While not accomplishing great accomplishments, I find that I was almost always under qualified. I read history. Some would tell me that I read and reread too much history. One item I read repeatedly is someone […]
Tags: Choose · Competence · People · Success · Trust · Wishes
Liars (Mean and Otherwise)
November 9th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Once again, the world swings into yet another crisis. Many persons with good intentions intend to reduce the crisis by limiting what other persons can say and write about it. Nothing new here. We used to have silly liars. The National Enquirer is one great example. Hillary Clinton had an alien baby […]
Tags: Ethics · History · Thinking · Trust · Word · Writing
Putting a Face to a Name
August 25th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps this is the complaint of an old man, but all the Zoomer Teams meetings just aren’t getting it done. The title of this post is an old expression from an old time. We used to talk with people on the telephone. That worked to a point, but we couldn’t “picture” the […]
Tags: Appearances · Clarity · Humility · Respect · Stories · Trust · Video · Work
Yes-No Questions
May 26th, 2022 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The basic yes-no question is quite easy to answer. It is either “yes” or “no.” Recognizing the question is a bit more difficult, but not impossible. There is a type of question for which the answer is either “yes” or “no.” It is quite easy to answer as there are only two […]
Tags: Analysis · Communication · Conversation · Questions · Trust
Centralized vs. Disbursed
November 18th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We revisit an old tradeoff that moves to a different dimension, but retains the tradeoff. In the early 1990s, (yes, I am that old) we had about a dozen different computing systems in a laboratory. On any given day, one of the dozen would be “down” for repair. Too bad, but we […]
Tags: Alternatives · Analysis · Choose · Decide · Security · Trust
It Works When We Want It To
November 8th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Most systems “work” as we intend when enough people want them to. Those people cooperate with the system and one another. Democracy works because people want it to. There is much freedom in democratic systems. That freedom works because people want it to. People realize the value of the freedom and don’t […]
Tags: Accountability · Agreement · General Systems Thinking · Respect · Trust
Rules We Cannot Enforce
October 14th, 2021 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We make rules. Why? Sometimes it is petty and to serve our ego. Pause and think (two pretty good rules about rules). We make a rule for or over or against the persons we know or our work colleagues. We cannot enforce that rule over all the persons who are supposed to […]
Tags: Adults · Purpose · Respect · Trust · Work
Some Thoughts on Restoring Trust
September 16th, 2021 · No Comments
By Dwayne Phillips Restoring trust in something called a shared reality won’t be easy. Or will it be so simple that it won’t be easy? Here is a suggestion. “We’ve lost a shared reality.” I heard this in a recent presentation. I’m afraid I lost the reference, so I cannot give due credit to the […]