17 Oct 09 Letter to The Times – Business Negatives

You can view here a letter published in The Times 17 October 2009 that I wrote with my very good colleague Stuart McAdam of 365 Coaching.

Whilst it is popular in many circles to accentuate the positive, this approach can have dangerous downsides.  Firstly, we can end up seeing only the future we want to see rather than the rather nastier underlying issues that may pop up to confront us either in the near or longer terms.

The second downside is that looking at negative issues constructively forces us to challenge our underlying assumptions about how the business world operates.  And this process can stimulate, I argue,  some really creative thought.

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