Glossary
Analyze – to loosen throughout, to take apart
Arrogance – Overbearing or hauty (from arrogantia, the title in Roman law by which a person owned a slave)
Assume – To take for granted
Cognition – To know together
Cognizance – To be born together
Coherence – To stick together
Communication – The act of becoming one with or one together
Compromise – To promise together
Conversation – To turn together (com = together + vertere = to turn)
Debate – To beat down in order to resolve
Dialogue - Meaning or reality flowing through
Dichotomy – to cut in two
Discretionary effort – the difference in the level of effort one is capable of bringing to an activity or task versus the effort required to simply get by or make do
Discuss – To shake something apart
Emotion – To move out
Express – to press or push outwards
Felt Support – How to Give Felt Support
- Interest
- Openness
- Understanding
Inform – to form within
Information – That which gives form to
Insight – Seeing into
Information –That which gives form
Insight – Seeing into
Know – To be certain of; to apprehend as true
Knowledge – The state of knowing
Listen – To be impressed with words
Necessary – What cannot be turned aside (necesse= don’t yield)
Recognize – To know again re-cognize
Reflect – To bend back the meaning
Respect – To look again
Success Ethic – shifting managers from a Performance Management mindset to a Success Management mindset
Suspend – To hang from or to hang under
Understand – to stand under or “under-stand” someone. Picture two friends in a large crowd several centuries ago. The Queen is passing through town and it's impossible for either friend to see over the crowd. One friend allows the other to get up on his back and asks him to describe what is happening. As he understands (stands under) his friend he sees the events through his friend's eyes. Seeing and feeling another's reality is understanding.
Unify (Unite) – To join together so as to form a whole; to make one; to be merged into one; pulling that which is fragmented together