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I prefer 2b: If you feel angry (real anger is not a choice), express it in a passionate but productive way, and stir others into action. Anger can be powerful
by cmars232 18y ago
I prefer 2b: If you feel angry (real anger is not a choice), express it in a passionate but productive way, and stir others into action.
Anger can be powerful and useful when its righteous anger directed appropriately. Think about Jesus driving out money changers.
When it makes you a raving monster that hurls obscenities and nearby objects, well, that's not my style, but I've known big corp VPs that were like that.
- DenisM 18y agoActually there was research on oil rigs team leaders published in Harvard Business Review which demonstrated that by selecting less aggressive team leaders (ones who were less macho but more likely to listen and try to understand) they were able to reduce accidents several times over and improve production. I can dig out the issue for you if you want to read it. I claim that righteous anger only feels good, but is really inferior to constructive if non-sexy working through the issues. Of course limits of the study applicability need to be scrutinized - what applies to people who are already members of one team may not apply to strangers and you may have to yell and stomp your feet :) at the latter to reach the desired effect.