"The definition we impose on a situation often drives us to respond to it
as if our definition were accurate.  Our own reaction influences the
responses of others, which in turn can transform the situation into what we
thought it was in the first place."

W I Thomas, quoted in Jean Lipman-Blumen, Connective Leadership, 1996.  New
York: Oxford, p 132

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