On 8/18/05 7:30 PM, "Jerome Diethelm" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I find that one can easily turn
> well-stated issues around and restate them as goals and that people feel
> validated when they see their concerns translated into intentional work. I
> have been overheard claiming that goals are issues spelled backwards.
I agree. In my view it is an unresolved situation (issues, needs, desires)
that generate the frame of mind in which an intention is pursued. The words
opportunity, possibility, potentiality are simply better indicators of the
complex teleology of intentionality than the more definition seeking word
"problem".
Thanks for posting the URL for your website.
Best,
Chuck
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