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Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership
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Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

by James G.S. Clawson
June 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
488 pages
10h 7m
English
Business Expert Press
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85. You Teach What You Tolerate

Concept

Having dinner one evening with a colleague and his wife, she said, in the midst of the conversation, “You teach what you tolerate.” I was struck by that insight and its truthfulness. When we allow a behavior to continue, we are, in essence, teaching that behavior. Tolerance is reward.

This is true, I believe, for children, students, employees, and executives. When we, whoever we are, permit others to continue doing something, it is likely to persist. The year 2017 was when sexual harassment came to fore in American society.37 It became front page news how much our society had tolerated over the decades in terms of sexual harassment— almost totally men on women.

The issue of tolerance-as-teaching relates ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781637420416