Eddy 2013年7月10日
好吧，我同意，这是一件典型的法国人会做的事 … 但是第一，我没有具备那么多法国人的特质；第二，我这样做总是有好的动机的（当然）！我试着带回一些有借鉴意义的评论，并且，和大多数法国人不同，我想为工作团队带来一些积极的改变，而不是抵制所有的变化。还不相信？
好吧，我真的很喜欢不久前我在我的课程答辩过程中和我们受人尊敬的院长（Lyn Glanz）所进行的一场精彩的对话。在过去两年半的时间里这个课程对我来说确实是有点（好吧，是非常）挑战性，或许是由于这个MBA课程某种边际效应的增加 … 我确实学会了批判性思考和推动产生变化；这些让原来的Eddy（‘Eddy-bang-bang’- 一个长故事，情节全部真实）变得更有力量。所以在我们愉快的对话中，Lyn院长看起来对我的表现很满意，甚至还有一些欣赏。你可能想要问为什么了吧？
好吧，还是这个问题：如果你不说、不宣布、不提出备用选择，你将如何计划改变一些事情（尤其如果改变这些事情并不是为了自己的利益）？她说许多人仍然保持沉默，而不会表现出来其实他们在关注这些。所以，当我抱怨的时候，我在乎。真的！否则的话，我为什么要把我自己放在这些时常会痛苦的情境中？并且现在我又更加理解了我的另一个受挫的地方：人们为什么在他们应该站出来的时候选择沉默？顺便提一下，我需要在这里澄清其实我是一个非常乐观的人。真的。我可能会对一些不公平的事情、一些不切实际的方案以及当人们不从他们的错误中汲取经验的时候感到生气，但是我是一个乐观的人 … 并且，很多时候我们可以更乐观！
你现在在你的脑海中有没有看到一个玻璃杯？那个“还有半杯水 — 只剩半杯水 ”的玻璃杯，对吧？所以不要仅仅相信你听到的，一个非常乐观的人在看到“只剩半杯水”的杯子时也很乐观，我就可以做到！再说一遍，还可以更乐观地看待这个问题，我可以为你提供出多种选择，让杯子里面的水增加。明白了吧？
还不明白！那我们来简短地回顾一件相似的历史事件吧。在法国和阿尔及利亚（Algeria）战争（1954-62）期间，一些阿尔及利亚人决定和法国合作，可能他们不应该这么做。这些人被称作“Beni-oui-oui”；“Ben”（意为“某人的儿子”，是传统的阿拉伯人名字中的第一部分），以及“oui-oui”（你确定你理解这个单词的意思吗？）… “yes-yes”，你理解我讲这个故事的意图了吗？简单讲述这个长故事，被称为“Beni-oui-oui”的这部分人最后不得不逃离他们的祖国，居住在一个和法国相似的地方，但是这个地方却不是他们的领土（并且他们当然也不再被承认是法国人了）。你认为他们之后还有机会同法国军队合作吗？无论怎样双方都无法再和谐共处了，对吧？这是一个好的结局吗？对谁来说都不是一个好的结局。
现在你还认为如果一个人因为动机强大而不受欢迎或者成为焦点还是一件不好的事情吗？我们为什么会有“吹口哨的人”？因为这些人会吹响口哨，亮出黄牌或红牌并宣称：“刚才的行为无效”、“停止打闹”、“再看一遍”…与此同时，越来越多的人转过身，思考“为什么要这样”，然后得到了他们想要的人生。看到不同的影响了吗（或者，没有看到后者的变化）？在任何系统中，人类或者机械，社会或者政府，都需要一个循环的、可回馈的系统。这样的系统可以帮助双方调整其行为并提高产出。是的，我就是在履行那个“循环”的功能！
因此，你要总结些什么呢？下次你觉得你需要吹响口哨的时候会发生什么呢？你也是在履行那个“循环”的功能。回馈系统会帮助团队中的每一个人学习、发展并远离可能会出现的恶性循环。当然，这个过程的实现需要每个人走出自己的舒适区，啊！但是然后你就可以让每个人都进入一个良性循环了 — 一个好的多的情形，不是吗？
… 现在我要向某些人或某些事情“吹响口哨”了！
Eddy
阿尔及利亚战争（Algerian War）相关资料：
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Algerian_War.html
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I don’t moan, I challenge the status-quo!
by Eddy 10 July 2013
Alright, I do agree, it’s kind of a French thing to do … but 1/ I’m not that French and 2/ I always have good motives to do so (of course)! I try to bring constructive criticism and, unlike most French, it is about bringing positive changes for the team and not about resisting to all changes. Still not convinced?
Well, I really enjoyed a fabulous conversation with our esteemed Dean (Lyn Glanz) during the defense of my project not so long ago. I have indeed been a little (ok, a lot) challenging in the past 2 and half years, and maybe increasingly as a certain side-effect from our MBA … you do learn to be critical and produce change; which happens to be powering the old ‘Eddy-bang-bang’ (a long story, all true). So in our lovely conversation, Lyn seemed to have coped rather well with me, and even appreciated it. Why, you may start to wonder?
Well, again, how do you plan to change anything (especially if it is not working for you) if you don’t say a thing, if you don’t flag it up and offer an alternative? She said that many people still remain silent and thus do not show they care. So when I moan, I care. True! Otherwise, why would I put myself in these sometimes miserable circumstances? And I now understand better another frustration of mine: why people don’t speak up when they should? By the way, I need to clarify here that I am a very happy man indeed. Truly. I might be born angry with unfairness, unpractical solutions and people not learning from their mistakes (wuuh, one of my pet peeves!) yet I am happy … only, we could always be happier!!
Do I see a glass in your mind now? The ‘half-full’, ‘half-empty’ glass, right? So don’t believe what you hear, one can be very optimistic while still looking at a ‘half-empty’ glass. I can! Again, it can always be fuller and I can draw many options for you to fill it up a little more. See?
No? So let’s go for a short historical parallel, shall we? During the war between France and Algeria (1954-62), some Algerians decided to cooperate with the French, and maybe a little more than they should have done. They were named ‘Beni-oui-oui’; ‘Ben’ (or ‘son of’, traditional first part of Arabic names), and ‘oui-oui’ (surely you get this one?) … ‘yes-yes’. Do you see me coming? To cut a long story short, ‘Beni-oui-oui’s’ ultimately had to flee their home country and live in another that was familiar (France) but not their own (and they have certainly not been considered as French, ever). Do you think they had a chance at being constructively critical with the French army then? Not really compatible anyway, is it? Was it a happy ending? For nobody.
Now, do you still believe that anyone with a drive strong enough to be unpopular and focus is still a bad thing? Why are we called ‘whistleblowers’? Because someone has to blow the whistle, pull out a yellow or red card and say: ‘this is not working’, ‘stop the jokes here and now’, ‘let’s relook at this’ … At the same time, many more would have turned around, thinking ‘why should I’, and got on with their lives. See the differing impact (or lack of, for the latter)? As with any systems, human or mechanical, societal or governmental, there is a need for a loop, a feedback system. This helps to both regulate the ongoing action and improve the output. Yes, I am the ‘loop’!
Therefore, what would you conclude? What happens next time you believe you need to blow that whistle? You just become that loop too, the feedback system that will help everyone in your group to learn, develop and grow out of a possible vicious circle. Of course, the process needs to see everyone going out of their comfort zone, ouch! But then you enable everyone to move into a virtuous circle; a much nicer place to be, don’t you think?
… now I’ll go and moan at someone or something else!!
Eddy
*Reference to the Algerian War:
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Algerian_War.html
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