“Explaining families and institutions in terms of the nature of their parts, I began to think, was like trying to reduce chemistry to physics. Other forces come into play when one studies “molecules” rather than “atoms,” even though molecules consist… — 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 the social science construction of reality. According to the latter, families are different from nations, profit-making corporations are different from nonprofit corporations, medical institutions are different from school systems, one nation’s infrastructure is different from another’s,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
