A really great weekly column, John. What a great opportunity you had, too. I hope the folks at Mayo, gathered from all over, were duly appreciative.
Can I offer one extension to what you said? (Well, I'm going to, regardless.) You write at the end of your first section: "That doesn’t mean you won’t have really deep differences or that these differences won’t matter. You will and they do. But if those differences do not affect your ability to execute your core mission, they should not be used to exclude people or viewpoints from your organization. That means you will need to find ways of viewing the people who see the world in fundamentally different ways as wrong or mistaken rather than as evil."
I would extend the last sentence to include the possibility that "you might even want to include the possibility that it is you, yourself, who are wrong or mistaken."
A really great weekly column, John. What a great opportunity you had, too. I hope the folks at Mayo, gathered from all over, were duly appreciative.
Can I offer one extension to what you said? (Well, I'm going to, regardless.) You write at the end of your first section: "That doesn’t mean you won’t have really deep differences or that these differences won’t matter. You will and they do. But if those differences do not affect your ability to execute your core mission, they should not be used to exclude people or viewpoints from your organization. That means you will need to find ways of viewing the people who see the world in fundamentally different ways as wrong or mistaken rather than as evil."
I would extend the last sentence to include the possibility that "you might even want to include the possibility that it is you, yourself, who are wrong or mistaken."
Thanks, John!