The advice here is social because it can be applied to social situations. However a person can be seen as a community of voices, which do not always have perfect communication with each other. You can also apply social advice to your personal management.
Keep people interested in what you're saying - Be interested in what they're saying. Establish that you care about their perspective and what they have to say.
- Leave your statements open-ended; make observations without bringing them to what could be interpreted as accusations.
- Don't threaten your listener's worldview. Start out from the assumption that both you and your audience can be right, once the misunderstandings are cleared up.
Appealing to people with requestsEstablish a trust relationship with people. If you can anticipate needing lots of help from people, find smaller ways to interact with them beforehand so you have time to gain their trust and they have time to get to know you.
Get used to estimating people's value systems (Spiral Dynamics) and appeal to those values when making your case to people.
Rule designUse rigid rules the way you would use a cast on a broken arm. Carefully shape a rule and put it in place to limit your actions during some growth process or healing process; but recognize that eventually your subconscious will have learned and understood the rule and it will be time to remove it. Leave rules in place just long enough so that your entire being becomes accustomed to its presence; take it off sooner and you will not fully understand its importance; leave it on too long and it will limit your actions, when your judgment could guide you just as well.
The danger of groupsThere is a danger in identifying with a group. If you attach more strongly with the group than you attach with the individuals that make it up, you risk losing those individual friendships if you lose your relationship with the group.
Some decentralization is vital to innovation"Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new." - Pardon Kynes, DUNE. Kynes approach: set up multiple small research groups, create avenues for frequent cross-pollination, give each group some autonomy and let them loose. If your institutional structure is too highly centralized, there's no room for innovation or exploration.
IndividualityAn effective leader must manage the "level of individuals" in his group. If the level of individuality is too high, turbulence will hinder central direction. Yet if the level of individuality is too low, the lack of "free thinkers" will set the scene for a "mob mentality" to take over in the event of turbulence (among other drawbacks).
This is somewhat analogous to the need to balance centralization and decentralization. * This concern may be reduced when individuals have largely reached Teal self-identity, but that's just a hunch.
Draw people in through "lottery" where every entry winsService businesses might find this tip useful: offer a sign-up for a free week of service & will contact winners - but make everyone a winner. That way they sign up without feeling like they are committing to anything, and they are pleasantly surprised when they win.
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