<p dir="ltr">Well said Michael, thanks!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Hans</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 2, 2014 2:26 AM, "Michael Collinson" <<a href="mailto:mike@ayeltd.biz">mike@ayeltd.biz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Rule 1: Have Fun!<br>
<br>
The OSM project depends on folks participating because we want to
and because, measured in our own terms, we have fun. Whoever we are.
Whatever we do.<br>
<br>
Crowdsourcing depends on as many people as possible being involved
and engaged. For us, that means women and men, professors and school
children, folks from literally every country in the world,
non-native and native English speakers. All are on this list.
Repeat: All are on this list. We welcome you. We hope you will
stay and read ... and may be get into posting too. We are not doing
a very good job at that, are we?<br>
<br>
So, "Steve's better map" thread. Let's end it. Rational, courteous
presentation and discussion of visions is of vital importance,
particularly on this international list. So, if there are positive
things you want to pick up as specific new threads, please go ahead
... but be guided by my advice below.<br>
<br>
Lastly, and I know at least one of the principal players has signed
up for this. A truly great free MOOC course is starting again
tomorrow, 3rd November. If you want to be more effective in forming
opinion in OpenStreetMap to the point that things actually happen,
sign up. At minimum, focus on watching the first and last videos in
the course. The course is much more general than the title
suggests.<br>
<br>
<b>Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence</b><b><br>
</b><b><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/lead-ei" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/course/lead-ei</a></b>
(English with <span>English, Chinese (Simplified), Russian,
Turkish, Ukrainian subtitles).</span><br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<br>
<b>Mike's personal checklist for dealing with "stormy weather"</b> <br>
<br>
I have evolved this after many years on this list and our occasional
"storms". I am aiming this at the active Thinkers within our
community whose input I respect and encourage:<br>
<br>
o Think of your whole audience (above) and how to engage them. Most
of your audience will never actually reply to you. [Although every
now and again you will get a really nice offlist message. They
always make my day.]<br>
<br>
o Engage positively, the academic buzz-word is "Positive Attractors"
... watch the first course videos. After all, you want to persuade
people that You Are Right. That, whether you like it or not, is
done emotionally as well as logically. <br>
<br>
o When there is a "storm". Post less (or may be not at all), not
more. I am a native English-speaker and scan-reader (= I can read
very quickly), but not even I can keep up with the current thread,
so I miss interesting and thought-provoking things ... so what
about everyone else? Wait a day, structure what you want to say
strategically over two or three well placed mailings. (If you
follow the totality of *all* my postings to all lists over the last
two weeks, you will see I am doing exactly this. And I will win
eventually!)<br>
<br>
o Separate personalities from their arguments. If you want say You
Are Wrong, it is perfectly possible to say this without direct
personal attack. Yep, some people will violate this and upset you,
just ignore it.<br>
<br>
o Separate people's character from their ideas. ... Oh, I have
already said that. :-)<br>
<br>
o Lastly. A positive argument, crisis, storm, whatever, has two
phases. The first can be unpleasant if we are not all 100%
emotionally and socially very intelligent, which alas we are not.
"Airing dirty washing" (English idiom = talking publicly about
things that were previously private). Violent disagreements.
Healthy, but highly adversarial debate. And so on. It is only
positive if there is a second closure phase, that involves calm
reflection, consensus-seeking, taking other people's views into
account ... and deciding on a course of action that you may not be
100% happy with, but a large number of people are ... And we
actually do something! It really annoys how little we consciously
move on to the that ultra-important phase 2!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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