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Showing posts with label relationships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relationships. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2011

What adjective do you describe yourself by in your relationships?

Better yet, what adjective would others describe you by in your relationships? Quiet, cerebral, strong-willed, critical, conceptual, dynamic, joyful, loving?

Increase your odds of having the right relationships by taking an “adjective” test. With someone else, list each name in the relationship on a piece of paper and next to each name, write 3 descriptive words that come to mind. Then describe yourself. It might be a fun exercise.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Does the law of diminishing returns apply to relationship?

This economic law states that we will get less and less extra output when we add additional doses of an input while holding other inputs fixed.

The answer to this question really depends on the environment that exists. Nothing exists in an environment that doesn't support it. A high-trust environment supports relationships and, therefore, employer-employee relationships do not have diminishing returns in a high-trust environment. Conversely, low-trust environments will have diminishing returns with any relationship.