About the "serious attention" - The M19 Newsletter plus

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So now the third wave... no real Easter holidays, spring indeed, but Pentecost not in Rome....

Gradually, however: connecting online as a matter of course, toasting each other with a coffee mug or wine glass, today with Chicago, tomorrow with Singapore.

Serious attention would be our term for this: when we deal with each other in an attentive and listening way, connect us benevolently with each other in cooperation. How precious such moments are becomes even clearer in virtual work: when everyone tells something about themselves at the "check in", when interrelated, creative thinking succeeds, when one asks when someone is conspicuously quiet ...

A good opportunity to once again visit Richard Sennett  to read what he has to say about civilité and writes the "social triangle" of cooperation:  

Earned authority, mutual respect and cooperation during a crisis form the foundation of reliable and trustful joint work.

"The ethnography of the social triangle shows both a connection and a difference with the early history of the civilité, i.e. civilised manners. The connection lies in the fact that civilité then as now means serious attention to other people... modern forms of the civilité  may include occasional outbursts of anger and dispense with the easy friendliness or superficial politeness of teamwork...whether codified or informal, the essence of polite manners lies in ritual. Outwardly directed behaviour is repeated and thus becomes a habit (Sennett, Zusammenarbeit - Was unsere Gesellschaft zusammenhält, Berlin: Hanser 2012 p. 240).

Serious attention also requires courage: courage to take time for cultivating relationships even in digital work, to defend spaces for emotional work against the ever-pressing factual work, tenacity to enforce the rituals necessary for this.

To support you in this attitude, we want to give you some food for thought and handouts with this M19 newsletter issue.  

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From our new video series on the topic of "Leadership and Cooperation", here is the link to "Containment - a helpful approach in leadership". Here we show you how the psychodynamic attitude of containment ("to take in, to hold, to consider, to give resonance") can influence the attitude of civilité and serious attention in tense situations.

This link will take you to the Video

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In our podcast "Insight out" we deal in an episode with the topic of Leadership from a distance and discuss which do's and don'ts virtual working entails, which dynamics should be paid special attention to in the virtual team and how one can create closeness and thus "serious attention" despite the distance.

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