Order and chaos aren’t objective realities. They’re perspectives.
👉 What looks like chaos to one person might be perfectly structured to another. A fast-moving startup? Innovative to one, disorganized to another.
Conflict works the same way. A leader sees a rebellious employee, but the employee sees a dysfunctional system.
A team sees an unpredictable boss, but the boss sees themselves as creative and flexible. Neither side is wrong. They just have different vantage points.
👍 As a manager, try to remember that a disruptive person might be a necessary challenge to the status quo, and a team that looks calm and collected might just be burned out.
💡 Perspectives shape reality. Not the other way around.
❔ How do you give yourself reality checks?
References: Watzlawick P. How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication.; 1976.
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