Re: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

Hi Kay, Ron, Dossy, et. al.,

No offense intended here.  I have a couple of real questions for you.

1) What is it you hope to learn / gain from participating in this
business-side discussion?

2) What is it you think you can contribute to this discussion, remembering
that it's intended to be a place for business-side folks to discuss the
business-side implications of XP to figure out how to best "argue" our case
for the wider adoption of XP practices?

Your answers will help me a great deal in moderating this list.

Best regards,
Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kay A. Pentecost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 6:26 PM
Subject: RE: [XC] Summing up and moving on (I hope)


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Walton [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:32 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [XC] Summing up and moving on (I hope)
> >
>
> >
> > Passion drives us to develop the hypotheses, collect the
> > evidence, etc. that
> > we will apply in our decision making processes.  Passion does not
> > drive the
> > decision making.  At least, as I've said, not in the business
environments
> > I've worked in and am interested in discussing here.
>
> Daniel Goleman tells this story in Working With Emotional Intelligence:
>
> A brilliant and successful lawyer had a brain operation to remove a tumor.
> The surgeon accidentally cut the connection to the amydala, the center or
> emotion (passion).  There were puzzling results.  The lawyer had no
> cognitive defects, yet he "became inept at work, lost his job,  and was
> unable to keep another.He ended up out of work; his wife left him; he lost
> his house."
>
> The neurologist discovered that sin the lawyer had "no feelings about his
> thoughts, and so no preferences."
>
> Goleman goes on to say:
>
> <quote>
> The notion that there is "pure thought," rationality devoid of feeling, is
a
> fiction, an illusion based on inattention to the subtle moods that follow
us
> through the day.  We have feelings about everything we do, think about,
> imagine, remember.  Thought and feeling are inextricably woven together.
> </quote>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Kay
>
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