Don’t make strange

Posted on April 11, 2008 by David Zinger

Zengagement: Really Knowing.

Ninety percent of the world’s woe comes from people  not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves ~ Sydney J. Harris.

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David Zinger's 20/20 vision is to foster a 20% global increase in employee engagement by the year 2020. Join him in this quest to enhance engagement for the benefit of all as low levels of engagement are bad for employees, organizations, customers, and the economy.
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3 Responses to Don’t make strange

  1. Michelle Malay Carter says:
    April 11, 2008 at 10:57 am

    David,

    I agree with this. Interestingly, one of the ways to find out who we are is to find out who we are not. Finding out and accepting who we are not is a place many choose not to go (I think) because they equate it with failure. Or because we think the things we are not are the things that count and that makes us feel inadequate.

    I don’t believe we can be anything we want to be although it seems to be a North American staple belief. I realize that belief is supposed to be encouraging, but in practice, I think it leaves people feeling they don’t measure up.

    Hum – interesting subject. Might have to blog about that.

    Regards,

    Michelle

  2. David Zinger says:
    April 12, 2008 at 7:03 am

    Michelle,
    I hope you do blog about that. I have been focusing quite a bit on the power of no and this would fit with what you wrote.
    Thank you.
    David

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