Do client employees give you truth in interviews?

Initially? Without a trusting relationship between the two of you? When the loss of jobs or apportioning of fault/weakness is the potential outcome? Check out this video interview of Navy Intel specialist and atty, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift

…To me, it’s unfathomable that we are up against the line. You know, again, looking back at WWII, what history’s taught us, what we found is the reliable means of getting intelligence, at least in the context of a war, are using those things that build rapport with the person. That they find out you’re not the ogre they’ve been told, they begin to question the people who are leading them. And eventually, that leads to actionable intelligence and it’s reliable.

Trust and the revealed Truth that comes from it. This is so basic to human nature that it both surprises and doesn't. We want a limbically balanced world where an eye for an eye gives us both visceral satisfaction and useful information. Problem is so many physical laws don't work that way, never mind the seeming counter-intuitions of how our grey matter helmet functions: you want me to *dive* my aircraft to gain speed to recover from a deadly stall that already has me helplessly pointed at the ground? You must be crazy!

The examples of less is more, flow beating force, are often understood by ground practitioners. Dozens of martial arts moves are dependent on leverage allowing the small to take down the overwhelmingly large. Looks impossible, but it works thanks to understanding and skill, and a brake on the useless impulse. In a world that has passed beyond the "boring" inputs of reality to the cartoonish hyperreal, we again see our victimization by our own paleo-brains. Thanks a bunch, Hollywood. Some say "never bring a knife to a gun fight." Those people don't need survivors to provide them with information, nor do they concern themselves with blowback or insurgency (and insurgency is a fine description of what happens also within many organizations burdened with dull leadership.) But, if they're only educable by the fairy tales of film, they should watch a knife used properly by the likes of Britt (James Coburn) in the Magnificent Seven.

I'll be posting much more on this hyperreal thing in the coming weeks.