I was listening couple of days ago an interview with Tony Robbins, where he shared three powerful skills for improvement: Pattern Recognition, Pattern Utilization and Pattern Creation.
I’ll keep the first one to anchor the point I’m focus to bring home. Participating in several forums, business conversations and knowledge sharing spaces. I started to get annoyed with the conflicts, tensions and frictions with people divergent arguments.
After observing my repeated reactions, I started to reflect about what triggers those reactions, questioning whether is a personal reaction or Noise being taking as Signal.
I arrived to the following rationale:
“Most conflicts are not disagreement about reality. It’s disagreement about Timing”.
For me, this was a soft landing to help calm those past urges.
Why is that? Again, incentives matters, life is too short to be wasted. So, short-term results and risk aversion tend to drive us and set the tone when decisions are posed at the table and demand execution.
However, separating in layers and express transparently when the context + collective interests rest on:
- Survival
- Positioning, or
- Franchise
Must help to build bridges between conflicting arguments and push for directed actions towards the collective GOOD.
When embarked in important missions, those connected to personal wellbeing, business management, public service positions. Identifying the time horizons where the Collective are nudged to will generate more collaboration and push in a healthy way towards better outcomes for everybody.
Will you get into collective decision making with your Time Horizons crystal clear?