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Hal Macomber points to Jeffrey Cufaude pointing out one of the crucial skills for any form of management or leadership:

Until we can listen to others with whom we might violently disagree with some degree of authentic curiosity, openness, and respect, little is possible.

I have nothing to add to that directly, but right this moment it feels good to be a member of a community of practice whose practitioners are committed, in spite of the difficulties in doing so, to the greatest possible mastery of this particular skill. It's still a somewhat fuzzy karass(*), it doesn't have too many hang-outs yet, but it's there all right.

(*) I use the term with gentle irony, and as a nod to another member of the same community, and one of the recent additions to my blogroll.