Jim Tamm is a former judge and an expert in building collaborative workplace environments, with 40 years of experience in the field of alliance building and conflict resolution. As a Senior Administrative Law Judge for the State of California for 25 years, Jim mediated more than 1,000 employment disputes. https://www.radicalcollaboration.com/home/jim-tamm/ ## Notes - [[Cultivate collaboration - Don't be so defensive]] ## Quotes - [[Defensiveness does not protect us from other people. It defends us from the fears we don't want to feel.]] - [[If you reduce your defensiveness, you increase your ability to solve problems]] - [[It's like putting whip cream on dog poop]] - [[Manage your own defensiveness]] - [[Our defensiveness helps us hide our fears from ourselves]] - [[The defensiveness of our congress probably costs as much as our defense budget at the Pentagon]] - [[The worst time to be figuring out how to deal with your defensiveness is when you're defensive]] - [[These are good people doing their imperfect best to improve the world the best way they know how]] - [[We don't have defenses, they have us. They own us.]] - [[When we get defensive, our thinking becomes rigid, our IQ drops about 20 points, and we simply become stupid]] - [[You can't compete externally if you can't first collaborate internally]]