“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
“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
“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 Principles Of Life 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 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
“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
“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
“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 Creativity 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 American society 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 Leadership 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 Different level 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
