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March 10, 2009

How anxious is your organization?

Anxiety is pretty palpable at the moment. There's alot of gossip going around - rumors and innuendo of the impending axe. Folks are just plain distracted. I've been going through my notes tonight and came across a quote from The Anxious Organization which has been useful - "Learning to manage your own behavior in triangles is probably the single most important thing you can learn about handling workplace politics." (p. 106)

Triangles being that humans always triangulate - between a pair someone is always going to go talk, vent, share and continue the conversation. Triangles enable emotional contagions.

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