Quotes About Agreement

it's so important whenever you come into a new situation to get all the expectations out on the table.

dos personas pueden mirar lo mismo, disentir, y sin embargo estar ambas en lo cierto. No se trata de lógica, sino de psicología.

Anything less than Win/Win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship. The cost of that impact needs to be carefully considered. If you can't reach a true Win/Win, you're very often better off to go for No Deal.

Peter Drucker recommends the use of a "manager's letter" to capture the essence of performance agreements between managers and their employees. Following a deep and thorough discussion of expectations, guidelines and resources to make sure they are in harmony with organizational goals, the employee writes a letter to the manager that summarizes the discussion and indicates when the next performance plan or review discussion will take place.

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One of the fundamental problems in organizations, including families, is that people are not committed to the determinations of other people for their lives. They simply don't buy into them.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

win/win is nice ... and tough. It's twice as tough as win/lose

An agreement means very little in letter without the character and relationship base to sustain it in spirit.

The deposit is to make the expectations clear and explicit in the beginning.

Developing such a Win/Win performance agreement is the central activity of management.

In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological.

first encountered this exercise many years ago at the Harvard Business School. The instructor was using it to demonstrate clearly and eloquently that two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose. That's why Win/Win is the only real alternative in interdependent realities.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality—the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Instead of asking, "Why is there war?" we might ask, "Why is there peace?" We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

God is love, but get it in writing.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.