the older generation.(^) It’s sort of a tie between on the one hand having a mentor from whom you
can learn from a distance on some of these issues, and being in a situation
like a project that I described when you learn it on the ground and in your
gut.
R4 assigned tremend^ ous meaning to his EI learning through project failure, and
that failure is a reality that can be constructively leveraged for reacting to the future
demands of everyday life and work.
(Failure involved) learning those hard lessons. Self-liberating that after an
experience like that, there’s a wide range of possible outcomes in any
situation. One, you can fail. Knowing that, for me was liberating in the
sense that stakes in any given situati– you think you’ve realized the degree to which there are heavy on ... Getting in touch with that reality allows
you, it allows you to confirm the complexity of leading people in a way
that to me is satisfying. That to me is the reality. When you can relate to
reality you have a better chance of actually succeeding with people, with
projects, in life.
Participant R8. Participant R8 is a male retired from the Federal government
and who now works as a lawyer in the private sector. He recalled certain products with
which he was involved and made the connection to that product’s use in everyday life.
R8 described specific incidents that helped shape his EI – ranging from telling a story,
managing a workplace health scare, using coaching services, improving organizational
performance, and a home improvement project. Storytelling evoked vivid memories of
his EI maturation.
And I put together this presentation that went on, probably went on
forever. And I didn’t know what works, so I tried a lot of different things.
At the time, I was reading a lot of Dr. Seuss to my daughter who was 4.
(about a turtle who wants to be king ... Now I told the story because I was So I shared at the all hands meeting that) I read Yertle the Turtle, a story
being made the head of a large organization. I wanted to say that, as I’m
at the top, I don’t want to lose touch with the people at the ground level.
That’s what I was trying to say. Nobody got it. What they got instead was