Crowd Control / Quality Control

I have had anxious friends. Sometimes I make them more anxious, and they stop being my friends. But that is ok. Because I don't want anxious friends.

Test and filter; up or out.

Sometimes I'll organise meetings, and everyone's okay. Sometimes I've been informed that people are anxious before a meeting - in which case, I should probably work harder to remind everyone to expect to be anxious, because if they enter the meeting defensively, there's probably going to be less collateral damage, and the outcomes are likelier to be overperformant.

Oh well. Crowd control. So many ways about it ... what is true for friends, is also true for staff and business partners.