Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do

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What You See Is What You Get

This may come as a surprise to you, but we see with our brains, not our eyes. Almost instantaneously, your brain transforms sensory input into thoughts about what you see. Within a few milliseconds of perceiving something, you make meaning out of it.¹ There will always be more than one way of making meaning out of what you see, even if you are convinced you have a clear perspective on what is happening.

The value of searching for the multiple, and sometimes contradictory, facets of what is happening was driven home by New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On the afternoon of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Mayor Giuliani and Governor George Pataki held a joint news ...