Question: The Torah describes Moses as being tongue-tied. What does this mean? How can a leader be tongue-tied?

Answer: Moses could not communicate with people in the language that they understood, because he was several steps above them.

Question: Do you think a leader needs to study public speaking?

Answer: If this is a real leader, then not necessarily. He needs to be understood by those people who own the art of public speaking to carry his ideas to the masses.

I remember once my teacher and I were at a wedding as guests of honor. A man came up to us to consult with Rabash about a small speech at this wedding.

My teacher said one or two phrases, and he exclaimed: “That’s it, this is enough for me for half an hour.” That is, you give a person a small clue, and from it he can already develop his thought further and make big speeches that capture people.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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Question: Some psychologists believe that there are conflicting personalities. Do you agree with this?

Answer: I think that this is, in general, not bad. The higher I rise, the more my views and personal feelings can become extremely opposite to views and personal feelings of others.

Moreover, this gives me more opportunities to correctly evaluate the opinion of another and understand how one can combine with such an absolutely opposite opinion. Indeed, it is based upon opposites that I comprehend the next, higher stage of my development.

In principle, if a goal and its achievement are important to me, then this can cause a conflict. And if the goal is not important, then disagreements will not arise.

For example, the absence of conflict in the family indicates that the spouses are indifferent to each other, they are not interested in the general connection. There is even a proverb: “The falling out of lovers is the renewal of love.” That is, quarrels are a guarantee of future closer contact. This is an important indicator of a relationship.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/16/20

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Remark: A leader, in principle, can be informal, for example, in the classroom, in the yard, in a football team.

My Comment: This happens when a certain group of people, who perceive a particular person as the highest, becomes attached to him and worships him.

Remark: There are many courses on how to become a leader. But it turns out that a person does not have a chance to become a leader because they are made by nature.

My Comment: There are people who seem to become leaders on their own because they really strive for this, but in general, I do not believe that this is possible. If we talk about real leaders, then there must be some kind of higher predestination.

Question: Should a leader be recognized by the majority?

Answer: He must be recognized by a certain mass of people who consider him above all others.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are the necessary skills for 21st century students and future leaders?“

Future leaders will need to know how to unite people above their differences and divisions. Of course, this does not mean using force against people’s will, as it has been done in the past. Instead, we will need leaders who will seek to unite absolutely everyone.

The primal importance of unifying all people is tough to understand, since we currently live in “us versus them” scenarios. However, with further development, we will need to reach new heights of understanding how nature works inside and outside us, and by doing so, realize how to rise above human nature and enter into positive connection with others.

Our positive connection with each other will harmonize us with nature’s perfectly connected and altruistic quality, and by achieving balance with nature, we will experience a whole new kind of life—happiness, health, confidence, and safety, the likes of which we currently cannot imagine.

Future leaders will have to be equipped with knowledge, wisdom and experience in rising above their egoistic nature in order to positively connect with others, as well as the ability to guide others to do the same.

They must perceive and sense nature’s altruistic and integral nature, its purpose and value, understand the process humanity is undergoing, and the moment in human development that we have reached: that the time has come for us humans to balance with nature by uniting above our differences and divisions.

Future leaders should be experienced in the paths that can guide people to unite above their divisive drives, and know how to draw the necessary strength to aide the process of connection with others above the cunning human ego.

Other than basic survival needs, human nature is egoistic, a desire to enjoy at the expense of others, while on the contrary, the surrounding nature is altruistic, operating to bind everything and everyone together. Therefore, in our connections, we will need to invert our nature from egoistic to altruistic, and by doing so, we will resemble the interconnectedness and interdependence of the surrounding nature.

Future leaders will thus need to be able to guide people to undergo the transformation from egoistic to altruistic, hateful to loving, and divisive to positively connected. Moreover, since they will rise above the human ego in positive connection with others, and project altruism, concern, consideration, and responsibility toward others, then they would also become concerned about the whole of humanity, not only their own country, region, city, or other grouping that they lead directly. By caring that humanity as a whole unites above its differences and divisions, and placing their own direct area of responsibility within the wider envelope of humanity’s perfect connection—like how cells and organs function within their host organisms—then the world will be on course to discovering the perfection that stems from our entering into balance with nature.

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Question: What does it mean to resolve a conflict?

Answer: To resolve a conflict means rising to the next level of our development with its help, not in order to soften the conflict, but to use it rationally.

Question: Is it bad if I just keep silent in an attempt to avoid conflict?

Answer: But this will not solve the problem. So, what is the point in having it?

Question: They say that the proof that a conflict has been resolved is when both sides are satisfied. Is this is an indicator?

Answer: No. This is not right. It is not known to what extent both sides understand if they are satisfied or it seems to each side that it has defeated the other.

Conflict resolution is when they join together in their common solution and no one thinks that this solution is better or worse for him.

Question: That is, the indicator is not the satisfaction of the two sides but rising above the conflict?

Answer: It is the satisfaction of both sides with an ascent to a common new point where they are absolutely clearly connected together in the middle line.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/16/20

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Question: What is not worth wasting your time on?

Answer: On unnecessary things.

Question: Can I learn how to manage my time?

Answer: Yes, if you systematically assess possibilities correctly.

Question: Wouldn’t it take too much time to learn time management?

Answer: No. This goes in parallel.

Question: Do I need to set aside time for thoughts, to sit, to meditate? Or is it inseparably linked to actions?

Answer: Things like meditation are foreign to me. I can sit over Kabbalistic sources. But just sitting and meditating, I do not understand it. There must be a direction that is given to the animal body in order for it to begin to rise above itself.

Question: People in love measure time one way, prison inmates in another. In youth, time passes slowly, in old age it just leaps. Why?

Answer: This is a sensation. There is no such thing as time. It manifests itself only in our feelings, like this whole world in general.

Question: The most beautiful woman under the brush of time turns into an old woman. Why does time destroy beauty?

Answer: This is subjective. It depends on what kind of beauty you are looking at. If you live near people for a long time, you do not notice how they age. Although, of course, all this is natural. The problem is that we give certain standards to external, physical beauty and do not connect it with internal beauty.

Question: What is time? How would you define it?

Answer: Time is the inner feeling of each of us.

Question: It is said that happy people do not look at the clock. Why does time fly at an unprecedented speed for happy people?

Answer: Because when they get pleasure, they forget that time is transitory. If a person enjoys, he does not notice how time passes.

Question: Is it true that time kills love?

Answer: Time kills everything! Absolutely everything! If we do not renew our impressions, they disappear.

Question: Do you think that time changes people? Even if a person is not engaged in self-realization?

Answer: Yes, of course. The time factor itself changes a person. This is called changing Reshimot (spiritual information data).

Question: When did time appear, and is there a place where it does not exist?

Answer: Time does not exist at all, except that we feel it.

Question: Is there time without a person?

Answer: No, without a person nothing exists. Everything that exists is what a person perceives.

Question: Is time an absolute or relative value?

Answer: It is absolutely relative. That is, only relative.

Question: Is it possible to teleport in time?

Answer: Since time as such does not exist and it is only purely our perception of the universe, life, and ourselves, then teleportation does not exist.

Question: Does time have secrets?

Answer: I do not understand this question. What do time’s secrets mean? If there is no time as such and it is purely a subjective feeling of a person, then the solution of this subjectivity is the disclosure of the secrets.

Question: Is it possible to stop time?

Answer: No problem. If you rise above time, then you will stop it for yourself.

Question: Is time man’s helper or his enemy?

Answer: It depends on how you look at it. If you start measuring yourself relative to the time, then it is a helper.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/2/20

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Question: Sometimes we postpone making a decision. Can this also be called a solution?

Answer: Sometimes this is the best solution.

Question: What can prevent us from making the right decision?

Answer: Lack of necessary data when you clearly know what is missing.

Question: What advice can you give to a person who made a wrong decision and now regrets it?

Answer: Not to regret it. Regretting the past is not understanding that there is a leader above you who programs all this and looks ahead.

Question: Do you think that if the decision was already made it cannot be a wrong one?

Answer: In this case, you should think that you are not in the position of the leader, but rather in the position of a manager or even a performer. Then you will not have any problems.

Remark: Still, there is such a concept as a wrong decision.

My Comment: There is nothing wrong. You tried your best without looking ahead and faithfully solving a problem. Yet, you got what you got and you should say, “The Creator finishes instead of me.”
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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Question: There are different methods for making a decision. One of them is using the force of habit. It is said that in order to make a decision our brain uses a huge amount of energy. Therefore, if every time you decide where to have dinner and what exactly to eat, then it is best to acquire some kind of habit and that’s it. And then you will go and take what you have already decided in advance.

Another method is the applying algorithms: “if … then.” For example, if my subordinate is two minutes late, then I will do that.

There is a timing method, when within three minutes I have to solve a problem; the “brainstorming” method, when everyone’s opinion is listened to under certain conditions, and some method of collective decision making is applied like voting.

What methods for making decisions do you use in your life?

Answer: I prefer to throw the idea into the group, for them to discuss it until they make a single common decision. And although this decision may not coincide with my initial decision, I agree with it if it doesn’t contradict my opinion completely.

Question: The choice of a solution depends on the influence of various factors. There are personal assessments of the leader, there is a decision-making environment (that is, the group of people), and there are some cultural, temporal or informational differences.

What do you think is the main principle in decision making?

Answer: I think that everything should be solved in the team where the task is set. The goal they should reach is set by the leader. And the team is managed by the manager.

There are three levels: the leader, the manager, the team. Everyone must fulfill their function. The leader gives a clear direction for the future. The manager gathers the team and discusses with them how they are going to determine the way to solve the problem set by the leader. For this the manager manages the team to choose general and particular ways for the solution.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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Round Table and a Game

Question: We use different games in the practice of round tables: for warm-up, for getting acquainted with each other, for connecting, for role-playing, etc. What do we get from the games?

Answer: The game makes it easy to tune into some fragment of communication between us. It does not oblige one to anything. It easily comes and goes, relaxes, and brings people together. This, of course, is not a condition for making decisions.

Question: The basis of all of the games is competition. Do you recommend that people not compete with each other?

Answer: You need to compete, but first of all with yourself, then with others. For what? In order to maximize my personal and, as I believe, objective opinion.

Question: Where should the energy be directed? Usually during a game or competition, the energy of one is directed against the other.

Answer: No, it should be only to the common benefit; otherwise, it is not a round table.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 7/9/20

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Question: Who can influence your opinion when making a decision?

Answer: About what? I’m not deciding anything. The Creator solves higher-order problems for me and my students solve lower-order problems.

I ask my students what topic is better to discuss, I ask them to select materials for me for each lesson, etc. And already based on these materials, I begin to explain and confuse them, so that they themselves carry out certain clarifications.

Question: So there are people who can influence your decision?

Answer: This is not a decision. I go with a team that wants to move forward, and according to my request, on my assignment, they select material for their advancement. I think this is correct.
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From KabTV’s “Management Skills” 6/11/20

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