DavidAgain comments on Positive Thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DavidAgain 08 March 2011 08:32:44PM 1 point [-]

Yep: especially because it's all to easy to approach one in an artificial way: we can easily create a cargo cult of either, trying to look 'truthy' or doing the sort of things that harmonious people do but in a massively counter-productive way.

One HR person I know springs to mind: she tries very hard to follow all the rules on how to make people feel valued and work together, but it doesn't come at all naturally, and the results feels like you're being turned into a box to be ticked. Much worse in practice than someone just not caring about harmony at all.