Does this prevent us, as project managers, from taking a positive approach about the team and their people or about the project?
What came to prove Rosenthal's Experiment?
I think we are our own greatest judges and some people are the conditioned to eagerly please and impress other people be it teachers or parents. As we grow and mature are own ambitions are desires should be the only thing that truly motivates us and not the ambitions of others that are placed into us. Making the step into independent and educated thinkers for some people is a life long goal where they have developed their own personality independent of the educational institutes and societies that they have grown up in.The Pygmalion effect and associated Rosenthal's experiment could be explained by transference i.e. the coach, parents or teachers own motivation being intertwined with an individual own motivation and confusing an individual.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 22, 2019 12:13 PM
Luis Branco
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Dear Daire
Thanks for your comment
In my interpretation, the idea is not to confuse.
The idea is to make people realize their huge potential
Pygmalion? Well, I can certainly relate to him, as I have kissed a few statues in my time.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 22, 2019 12:08 PM
Luis Branco
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Dear Sante Thanks for your comment
Could you even feel the warm lips of the statues? :-)
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 22, 2019 11:59 AM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Pygmalion? Well, I can certainly relate to him, as I have kissed a few statues in my time.
Dear Sante Thanks for your comment
Could you even feel the warm lips of the statues? :-)
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Dec 22, 2019 12:14 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Unfortunately, cold as ice. No pulse, no feeling. Just like a statue :-)
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 22, 2019 11:05 AM
Replying to Daire Guiney
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I think we are our own greatest judges and some people are the conditioned to eagerly please and impress other people be it teachers or parents. As we grow and mature are own ambitions are desires should be the only thing that truly motivates us and not the ambitions of others that are placed into us. Making the step into independent and educated thinkers for some people is a life long goal where they have developed their own personality independent of the educational institutes and societies that they have grown up in.The Pygmalion effect and associated Rosenthal's experiment could be explained by transference i.e. the coach, parents or teachers own motivation being intertwined with an individual own motivation and confusing an individual.
Dear Daire
Thanks for your comment
In my interpretation, the idea is not to confuse.
The idea is to make people realize their huge potential Saving Changes...
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