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Edwin H Friedman Quotes

Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they

Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

Edwin H Friedman
Moving, Communication, Emotional
Edwin H. Friedman (2013). “Friedman's Fables”, p.13, Guilford Press

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Edwin H Friedman
Leadership, Self, Inspire
Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.151, Church Publishing, Inc.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Edwin H Friedman
People, Understanding, Unmotivated
Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.9, Church Publishing, Inc.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H Friedman
Inspirational, Leadership, Visions Of The Future

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Edwin H Friedman
Loss, Judging, Anxiety
Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, Edward W. Beal (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.201, Church Publishing, Inc.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Edwin H Friedman
Attitude, Real, Speech

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