On 13 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A poorly developed sense of how to deal with other people coupled with > never having realised that people are not machines, do not react like > machines and need to be handled differently. You maintain machines by > focusing on what is wrong with them and changing that. You handle > people by focusing on what they do right and reinforcing that. > > I used to do what Ciaran does, and I used to do it a *lot*. Lucky for > me, one day someone came along with a very big stick and hammered it > through my thick skull that there is a better way.
And thus focused on what you were doing wrong. <grin> Uwe -- If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him, is he still lying? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
