“Chronic anxiety is systemic; it is deeper and more embracing than community nervousness. Rather than something that resides within the psyche of each one, it is something that can envelope, if not actually connect, people. It is a regressive emotional… — Edwin H. Friedman 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 categories of… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“The more my perspective broadened, the more confirmed I became in my view that contemporary leadership dilemmas have less to do with the specificity… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“I will begin by describing the nature of an emotional regression and showing how in any society, no matter how advanced its state of… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“By the term regression I mean to convey something far more profound than a mere loss of progress. Societal regression is about the perversion… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“The focus on “need fulfillment” that so often accompanies an emphasis on empathy leaves out the possibility that what another may really “need” (in… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge of what… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“It was then, after my presentations to thirty-two generals, that I first began to see how similar the approach to leadership problems was throughout… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“Those five characteristics are: 1. Reactivity: the vicious cycle of intense reactions of each member to events and to one another. 2. Herding: a… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“Chronic anxiety is systemic; it is deeper and more embracing than community nervousness. Rather than something that resides within the psyche of each one,… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our own selves… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed immune systems… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“The second attribute of imaginatively gridlocked relationship systems is a continual search for new answers to old questions rather than an effort to reframe… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
“I want to stress that by well-differentiated leader I do not mean an autocrat who tells others what to do or orders them around,… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share
