Concept
Consciously or unconsciously, mindfully or mindlessly, explicitly or implicitly, people value some things and not other things. The chapter on VABEs explains this. What do you stand for? What does your company stand for? Ed Schein,41 Albert Ellis,42 Ellen Langer,43 and Chris Argyris44 among others have described how some VABEs are conscious while many are not. They all made a distinction between what we think we are doing and what we actually do. That is, we may state our values and beliefs and yet behave in different ways reflecting other even opposing values.
So, the question, “What do you stand for?” they would suggest has two answers, what you think you stand for and what your behavior says you stand for. That ...
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