“The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping… — Edwin H. Friedman Doubt Copy Share Image
“the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our… — Edwin H. Friedman Life Copy Share Image
“I want to stress that by well-differentiated leader I do not mean an autocrat who tells others what to do or orders… — Edwin H. Friedman Leader Copy Share Image
“In the pages that follow I will show that America’s leadership rut has both a conceptual and an emotional dimension that reinforce… — Edwin H. Friedman Leadership Copy Share Image
“The focus on “need fulfillment” that so often accompanies an emphasis on empathy leaves out the possibility that what another may really… — Edwin H. Friedman Becoming better Copy Share Image
“The more my perspective broadened, the more confirmed I became in my view that contemporary leadership dilemmas have less to do with… — Edwin H. Friedman Leadership Copy Share Image
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does… — Edwin H. Friedman Communication Copy Share Image
“The second attribute of imaginatively gridlocked relationship systems is a continual search for new answers to old questions rather than an effort… — Edwin H. Friedman Relationships Copy Share Image
“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2.… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“I will begin by describing the nature of an emotional regression and showing how in any society, no matter how advanced its… — Edwin H. Friedman American family Copy Share Image
“By the term regression I mean to convey something far more profound than a mere loss of progress. Societal regression is about… — Edwin H. Friedman Evolution Copy Share Image
“Researchers who emphasize the tragic consequences of these events, however, see the effort to focus on the recovery as denial of the… — Edwin H. Friedman Hong kong Copy Share Image
“I have lived and worked in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area for almost four decades. During this period I have watched… — Edwin H. Friedman Civil rights Copy Share Image
“Soon I began to realize that cultural camouflage also obscured the universality of emotional process in institutions. For example, frequently, the leaders… — Edwin H. Friedman Data collection Copy Share Image
“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed… — Edwin H. Friedman Biology Copy Share Image
“Explaining families and institutions in terms of the nature of their parts, I began to think, was like trying to reduce chemistry… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“It was then, after my presentations to thirty-two generals, that I first began to see how similar the approach to leadership problems… — Edwin H. Friedman Leadership Copy Share Image
“Members of highly reactive families, therefore, wind up constantly focused on the latest, most immediate crisis, and they remain almost totally incapable… — Edwin H. Friedman Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Chronic anxiety is systemic; it is deeper and more embracing than community nervousness. Rather than something that resides within the psyche of… — Edwin H. Friedman Anxiety Copy Share Image
“It may be in the ubiquitous phenomenon of terrorism that one can most easily see how universal emotional processes transcend the conventional… — Edwin H. Friedman Science Copy Share Image
“One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“With families, I stopped creating encyclopedias of data about all their issues and began to search instead for the member with the… — Edwin H. Friedman Better way Copy Share Image
“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge… — Edwin H. Friedman Change Copy Share Image
