Shoot The Negative People (Or is that being too negative?)

I’ve walked out of meetings when some train-stopper started saying, “yeah…but!” 

These clowns can kill innovation, cause more problems than they solve, bring a mood of excitement to a screeching halt.

What to do:  Stop them dead in their tracks.  Send them out of the room.  If the deal killer is a client, sit this reactionary bozo down and (as gently as possible, of course) explain that this project will only work if we look at what we CAN do, not at what we CANNOT do.  If that doesn’t work, take the miscreant and shoot him or her.  — jri  

“I have observed problem-solving groups
reduced to absolute silence because they
have allowed themselves to be sucked
into the Negativist world view.  They
sit staring at the floor, baffled by a
negativistic person who has firmly and
repeatedly announced….  ‘It will never
work; don’t you remember, we tried that
last year and nothing happened.’”
 – Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D
     Coping with Difficult People

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