{"id":73,"date":"2011-01-19T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/?p=73"},"modified":"2011-01-19T22:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T04:47:12","slug":"mri-or-most-respectful-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/2011\/01\/mri-or-most-respectful-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI or “Most Respectful Interpretation”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every Sunday’s NY Times Business section includes a special feature on leadership and management in the form of an interview with a business executive.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s\u00c2\u00a0called\u00c2\u00a0 “Corner Office<\/a>“\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0and is\u00c2\u00a0written by\u00c2\u00a0Adam Bryant.\u00c2\u00a0 The interviewees are\u00c2\u00a0asked about things like what they look for in a person when hiring, how they approach interviewing job candidates, and how they lead their businesses – from a people perspective.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The column is in a Q and A format, and Mr. Bryant\u00c2\u00a0does a great job of\u00c2\u00a0selecting leaders with different approaches and philosophies.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s one of the first things I read in the paper every week.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This past Sunday<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0the interview was with Robin Domeniconi of the Elle Group.\u00c2\u00a0 She called out a quality she\u00c2\u00a0said she needs in the teams she leads — and described it as “MRI or Most Respectful Interpretation of what someone’s saying to you.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a quality of listening and interaction, a state of mind\u00c2\u00a0that enables a group to function at a high level because no time is spent distracted by questioning each other’s motives. \u00c2\u00a0 MRI is an interesting variation on “assume positive intent” -\u00c2\u00a0 an orientation that\u00c2\u00a0frees you to focus on listening to one another and getting on with the work\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone who is\u00c2\u00a0part of a team effort\u00c2\u00a0knows that teams operate with unique\u00c2\u00a0habits, behaviors, ground rules and values, whether spoken or unspoken.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Team leaders can make work more gratifying, efficient, and productive, or more stressful, ineffective, and deflating, depending\u00c2\u00a0on the interpersonal environment they\u00c2\u00a0strive to create for people who need to work, together<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Thanks, Robin Domeniconi, for giving us a new shorthand – MRI – for thinking about our human interactions in a fresh way.<\/p>\n

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Every Sunday’s NY Times Business section includes a special feature on leadership and management in the form of an interview with a business executive.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s\u00c2\u00a0called\u00c2\u00a0 “Corner Office“\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0and is\u00c2\u00a0written by\u00c2\u00a0Adam Bryant.\u00c2\u00a0 The interviewees are\u00c2\u00a0asked about things like what they look for in a person when hiring, how they approach interviewing job candidates, and how they lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/speaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}