Engagement behaviors indicate interest, receptivity, or agreement while disengagement behaviors signal boredom, anger, or defensiveness.
Mobius, president of Templeton's Emerging Markets Fund, looks back without a hint of defensiveness.
So foreign criticism, which in some countries might arouse defensiveness, is in fact welcomed.
She warns, however, that the most natural reaction is defensiveness, which often makes the defender appear weak.
It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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Some have shown too much defensiveness, and have not shown enough focus on digging into and addressing the problems.
People who fear failure in speaking are defensive, and that defensiveness shows up in a variety of ways, all bad.
The defensiveness and simplistic distinction, charity versus making money, are quite astonishing.
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We respond (positively or negatively) to dilated pupils that signal attraction, increased blink rates caused by stress, and darting eyes that underscore discomfort or defensiveness.
The result is both a greater willingness to accept change and a prickly defensiveness on the part of those whose attitudes have changed the least.
Defensiveness however, seems to have done little to help Jardines prosper, especially in the booming markets just across the border where it has relatively little investment.
Defensiveness: Once decisions have been made, plan sponsors conclude they know all they need to know and that is the attitude they project to the outside world.
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As smart as this well known firm is, its inability to listen without defensiveness put a few more nails in the coffin of that already weak relationship.
Commentators have marveled at his mischaracterization of the gold standard and his defensiveness at the suggestion that loose Fed monetary policy of the early and mid-2000s played a role in causing the housing bubble and thus the Great Recession.
He famously delayed apologizing for the iPhone 4 antenna by deploying defensiveness, scorn and even blame -- resulting in the enduring "You're holding it wrong" meme, a testimony of Apple hubris if there ever was one.
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Defensiveness is the absolutely worst strategy.
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