Warren Smith

It's for navigating these daily games that we're engaging in, whether or not we realize it.

When I was at that school, navigating what I just described to you, that was a game that was being played on multiple levels.

And you can anticipate what you're all... And you're trying... It's not necessarily you're trying to win.

You're trying to achieve the ideal outcome and recognize where the best move is on the board that I'm trying to...

figure out, okay, so, and a lot of that is nonverbal.

It's not, so the signals that were being sent to me, for example, that were, no one came up to me and said, we want you to be fired for your, because I disagree, but the body language around J.K.

Rowling, it was, I noticed it.

There's a lot of communication that's nonverbal.

Perhaps even most communication is nonverbal.

And people don't say what they really think at the copy machine, what your colleague really thinks, but they telegraph it.

But once we do enter the verbal, what is the kata that will allow us to navigate this?

So I try and formulate a method that will help with that.

For me, I describe it as a sort of a flaw filter where it's not so much, I come at it as though this is the least bad option I've been able to find.

Can you genuinely offer anything better?

And it's important to recognize the least bad option because, as Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.

There's going to be flaws, and that's a method people take or a strategy people take, just pointing out the flaws.

That doesn't disprove you have a better alternative.

So I'm listening for the alternative.

I imagine kind of this red light bulb that is sitting on the desk, and I'm listening.

I'm just this filter, not really taking a strong position necessarily.