by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I have observed people change their mind from one extreme to another. Is there a name for this behavior?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have observed something about people and I am searching for a name for this behavior. I have observed this across decades, organizations, and areas of endeavor. Here is how it goes:<\/p>\n Consultant: Let’s try something new – it is called Practice A.<\/p>\n Affected Persons: No, no, no! Practice A is too much of a bother.<\/p>\n Consultant: Let’s try Practice A. I think you will see that it isn’t too much of a bother.<\/p>\n time passes<\/p>\n Affected Persons: While doing Practice A, I think we should also do sub-practice a, sub-practice b, sub-practice c…and sub-practice z as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I hope the above summarizes the behavior. Affected persons don’t want to try a new practice. Once, however, they are into the new practice, they want to do another dozen things inside it. They have flip flopped from one extreme to another concerning a practice.<\/p>\n I don’t understand this behavior, but there are many human behaviors that I don’t understand.<\/p>\n Regardless, I would like to know what you call this behavior. Surely someone has a name for it – something better than “flip flopping to extremes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I have observed people change their mind from one extreme to another. Is there a name for this behavior? I have observed something about people and I am searching for a name for this behavior. I have observed this across decades, organizations, and areas of endeavor. Here is how it goes: Consultant: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17,48,6,10],"tags":[154,139,170,129,133],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-culture","category-general-systems-thinking","category-observation","category-people","tag-communication","tag-culture","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-observation","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}