“Se pa ak rara you kenbe zwazo.”
Translation: “You don’t catch birds with a carnival band.”
All of us know the benefits of having more people on your team to share your vision, do the work, and see the goal accomplished. However, any member of a team like this wants to know their voice is also being heard, to develop the outcome everyone is going towards. The easiest way to lose people who would otherwise be on board is by talking too much. Sometimes the best tactic is to shut our mouths and let them come to us.
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Unless otherwise noted, the Haitian Proverb of the Week was found in “Hidden Meanings. Truth and Secret in Haiti’s Creole Proverbs” by Wally R. Turnbull, Copyright 2005 by Light Messages. The comments on the proverb are my own.
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