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

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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.

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

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

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Edwin Friedman

Edwin Friedman

Born: 1932
Died: 1996 (aged 64)
Bio: Edwin Howard Friedman was an ordained Jewish Rabbi, family therapist, and leadership consultant. He was born in New York City and worked for more than 35 years in the Washington DC area where he founded the Bethesda Jewish Congregation.
Known for:
  1. A Failure of Nerve
  2. Friedman's fables (1990)
  3. The Myth of the Shiksa and Other Essays

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