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interbiznet presents the Bugler |
| September 11, 2002 |
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Principles
Read John Sumser's article in the Electronic Recruiting News today.
Functioning
I have spent
many years working with people on improving their functioning in the various
relationship systems of which they are a part. Over the past year, I have watched even
more closely my own functioning and how it has been affected by the events in
2001. I live in a ZIP Code where not only many lives were lost and damaged
in the attacks, but where opening the mail took on a whole new meaning, as did
attempting sleep with the windows open and hearing the sounds of F-16s making their
rounds into the wee hours of the morning. So, I took to opening the mail
outside, away from my children, and to closing the windows at night so I could
get rest.
I spoke at great length with a woman, whose adolescence was interrupted by
World War II, about how my stomach jumped when I heard planes overhead, and how
that took a couple months to calm down and cycle out. She told me it took her a couple years,
after being resettled in this country, to overcome the knee-jerk response to
duck when she heard planes out of fear of bombs exploding nearby. I have found
that those, who are aware of and can manage (read: not inflict on others) their
"stuff," can have a very calming effect on others. I have found that those
individuals, who are cut off from important relationships in their nuclear and extended families and with their self,
have felt the tragedy
(through the lens of cutoff) most acutely by feelings of overwhelming aloneness and isolation and
unmanageable stress. I have found that those, who are meaningfully connected,
demonstrate incredible resiliency.
People are complex, we are saddled with an evolutionary history and with a multi-generational
family history that forms the genetic and behavioral paths in our lives, yet we have the potential
and power to change our outputs and outcomes. Each of us functions at a different level
under different circumstances. There are no hard and fast rules—other than that people do not behave
out of thin air, but rather react to something that has shifted in their network. A challenge to us
in the people business is to find a way of thinking about individual functioning (our own included) as just that.
One behalf of the staff, I would like to take this opportunity to honor the memory of those lost on September 11, 2001, and the good work of those who help in the ongoing cleanup and recovery efforts.
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