The more you try not to think about a problem, the more it gets lodged in your brain. Here's an experiment. Don't picture Rob Campbell in a Tutu, Don't think about it, don't imagine the matching leggings and pretty ballet shoes. Go on.

Rob

That's going to ruin your weekend.

The more you try not to think about chocolate, the more the stuff gets stuck in your mind. 

In other words, there's no point pretending something isn't happening, or everything's okay. It just makes it worse, rather than finding a way to deal with it.

That's what certain agencies I could mention don't seem to get. If there's a rumour, an issue or some bad news, there is absolutely no point not being straight and fair with your staff. It will only stress them out and make things worse.

 

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5 responses to “Suppressing pictures of men in Tutu’s”

  1. Ciaran McCabe Avatar
    Ciaran McCabe

    From an essay by Howard Gossage:
    ‘It is something like an account I once read of a game Tolstoy and his little chums used to play at Yasna Polyana: they would sit around the nursery trying not to think about the Great Bear who sits on top of the North pole. They found this difficult.’

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  2. John Avatar

    Slippers surely.

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  3. Rob @ Cynic Avatar

    Unfortunately for you NP, yours is the only blog I can access behind the Great Firewall of China so I can see this blatant disregard for my gentle state of mind …
    Also, I wear tutu’s regulary so it’s a bad analogy … imagining me in shoes would be much better … but the point is made though I’d love to know which agency you are referring to which required my photo to ram home the point.
    🙂

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  4. northern Avatar

    You know very well which one, th Disruptiion one.
    Have you a good pair of legs then?

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  5. lipozene Avatar

    What a great thought, and thanx for make me see that disgusting image, jajajajajajajajaja, absolutely great post dude!!

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