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Living With Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]
As he walked into class, Max looked around at his students thoughtfully.
"We're now a little over two thirds of the way through this semester, which means that there are only a few classes after this one. I'm going to go ahead and give you your homework assignment for today now so that we don't have interrupt discussion for it later. I've tried to teach you all as much as I can on the subject of difficult women because living with them is important." Max grinned. "In large part because living without them is supremely boring. But in the short time we've had, there's just no way I can teach you everything there is to know on the subject. If there's a specific question or situation that you feel I haven't covered well enough, let me know. There are still a couple of weeks left and I can shift my plans around for the upcoming classes."
Max rolled his shoulder slightly to loosen them up. "And with that out of the way, let's get down to today's business."
"I hope you remember some of the discussions we had back at the beginning of the semester about how to deal with a difficult woman who is in a position of authority. If you need a refresher see me after class. Anyway, it turns out to be almost equally difficult to deal with such women when they are subordinates. Even when you're the one officially in charge, some people think they're the ones who should be because they so obviously know what you should be doing." And just because they were often right about that was no reason to let them take over.
"One of the reasons this situation is difficult is that many of the techniques that you can employ when under the authority of a difficult woman, a difficult woman can employ when under your authority. Subtle resistance, minor delays, careful suggestion and guidance. When you're in a hurry to get something done, all of these can be highly problematic the timely completion of your goals. That will be our topic for this week and the next."
Looking over his students once again, Max nodded to himself. "This week we'll be discussing people and situations in which this is a problem we have to deal with, as well as talking about the solutions we've found to be successful in the past. Next week, I'll suggest a couple of techniques which no one brings up today."
"The dynamics of power and authority are tricky at the best of times. Adding difficult women to the mix takes things from 'tricky' to 'perilous'. The situation is only made trickier by the fact that you usually don't want to simply dismiss them since in addition to difficult, they often tend to be highly competent. So, let's share. Hopefully we'll all learn something."
"We're now a little over two thirds of the way through this semester, which means that there are only a few classes after this one. I'm going to go ahead and give you your homework assignment for today now so that we don't have interrupt discussion for it later. I've tried to teach you all as much as I can on the subject of difficult women because living with them is important." Max grinned. "In large part because living without them is supremely boring. But in the short time we've had, there's just no way I can teach you everything there is to know on the subject. If there's a specific question or situation that you feel I haven't covered well enough, let me know. There are still a couple of weeks left and I can shift my plans around for the upcoming classes."
Max rolled his shoulder slightly to loosen them up. "And with that out of the way, let's get down to today's business."
"I hope you remember some of the discussions we had back at the beginning of the semester about how to deal with a difficult woman who is in a position of authority. If you need a refresher see me after class. Anyway, it turns out to be almost equally difficult to deal with such women when they are subordinates. Even when you're the one officially in charge, some people think they're the ones who should be because they so obviously know what you should be doing." And just because they were often right about that was no reason to let them take over.
"One of the reasons this situation is difficult is that many of the techniques that you can employ when under the authority of a difficult woman, a difficult woman can employ when under your authority. Subtle resistance, minor delays, careful suggestion and guidance. When you're in a hurry to get something done, all of these can be highly problematic the timely completion of your goals. That will be our topic for this week and the next."
Looking over his students once again, Max nodded to himself. "This week we'll be discussing people and situations in which this is a problem we have to deal with, as well as talking about the solutions we've found to be successful in the past. Next week, I'll suggest a couple of techniques which no one brings up today."
"The dynamics of power and authority are tricky at the best of times. Adding difficult women to the mix takes things from 'tricky' to 'perilous'. The situation is only made trickier by the fact that you usually don't want to simply dismiss them since in addition to difficult, they often tend to be highly competent. So, let's share. Hopefully we'll all learn something."
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