Log Jams

  • The log jams most likely to create disruptions in today’s world are of our own making.
  • We tend to create interference in our lives by not recognizing the moments when our own thinking has been jammed by the logs of judgment.
  • We can create a log jam in our own thinking and relationships.
  • When we worry too much about what other people are or aren’t doing, communication breaks down, and disasters occur.
  • The biggest disasters in history have not been errors in judgment; they have been failures of communication.
  • Bad communication is usually easy to spot. The four horsemen of the communication apocalypse are: 
    1. Criticism
    2. Defensiveness
    3. Stonewalling
    4. Contempt
  • Sometimes communication log jams can pop up when team members are forcing a square peg into a round hole.
  • If the public is not noticeably paying a premium to select us, then no brand value actually exists. This means we’re just rolling the dice with our competition.
  • How people feel about you is entirely up to them. The decision they make is determined by how YOU think.
  • How you think determines the number and difficulty of log jams you encounter.
  • Are there places in the roots of your thinking that are so dense that nothing can flow through?
  • If you want a log jam removed from your river, you are the only one with the power to do it, and your progress depends on that.