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    • Withholding relevant information to preserve advantage
    • Anecdotal distraction to attract attention inappropriately
    • Placement of irrelevant information in support of other agendas
    • Commitments made, possibly only for effect, that are readily forgotten
    • Uncritical belief in the meaningful convergence of the process
    • Inability to interrelate relevant perspectives
    • Time pressure on communication of relevant information
    • Misplaced concreteness obscuring subtler insights
    • Pressure of courtesy, protocol and due recognition -- undermining other content
    • Aesthetic attraction or repulsion inappropriately distorting the exchange
    • Remembrance of the past inhibiting emergence of the new
    • Enthusiastic focus on the new inhibiting ability to remember learnings of the past
    • Expectations of future advantage distorting effective engagement in the process
    • Inability to express meaningfully insights from other disciplines, languages, contexts, or modes of communication
    • Devaluation of subtler insights that briefly emerge, thus favouring dominance of the obvious
    • Inability to achieve reciprocity of pace and timing to ensure mutual entrainment in the dialogue process
    • Failure to appreciate significance carried by the symbolism of the moment
    • Frustration at priority accorded to other necessary perspectives
    • Impatience with the priorities of the moment and doubts regarding the opportunities of the occasion
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