The other day, I overheard a man at the train station on his smartphone saying, \u201cTheir expectation management really stinks.\u201d He seemed to be a coach of some kind who was trying to establish a new way of working together in a company. And he seemed exhausted. I googled \u201cexpectation management.\u201d There really is such a thing: a guided process that navigates participants through the expectations and misunderstandings between individuals or groups. But somehow, it sounded very technical to my ears\u2014very efficient and practical. As if our longings and desires, our traumas and fears\u2014everything that makes us complicated, lovable people, everything that is part of social life\u2014were something to be constrained and directed. As if we could invoke a method that made everything human manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what kind of work is this \u201cexpectation management\u201d\u2014not just for this man but also for the participants who engage in such a process? It\u2019s evidence of a willingness to talk to each other about the differences between us. But it could also be the expression of a common will, beyond the differences. Or would that actually be the first step? Or perhaps the last one to start with? Alpha and Omega. Techn\u00e8<\/em> (ancient Greek: craft, skill, art) is the way to get there. So it’s up to me to manage my own expectations in social interaction, to rein myself in: to be aware of them, to communicate them, and also to adapt or change them if necessary. It sounds simple, but it takes courage. Whether it is called \u201cexpectation management\u201d or \u201cliving in the love of doing and letting live in the understanding of the will of others,\u201d is probably not so important. What is important is the person who has decided to take this risk out of freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska The other day, I overheard a man at the train station on his smartphone saying, \u201cTheir expectation management really stinks.\u201d He seemed to be a coach of some kind who was trying to establish a new way of working together in a company. And he seemed exhausted. I googled \u201cexpectation management.\u201d There really is such a thing: a guided process that navigates participants through the expectations and misunderstandings between individuals or groups. But somehow, it sounded very technical to my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":62661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8845],"tags":[11602,11610,8819],"class_list":["post-62979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-social","tag-ausgabe-3-4-2025-en","tag-english-issue-6-2025","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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