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In a biotechnology firm, colleagues and I found that those that were seen as civil were twice as likely to be viewed as leaders, and they performed significantly better.
In other words, being civil isn't just about motivating others.
If you're civil, you're more likely to be seen as a leader.
We'll get people to give more and function at their best if we're civil.
What I know from my research is that when we have more civil environments, we're more productive, creative, helpful, happy and healthy.
That year, the country was coming out of civil war.
The reality is that civil society, journalists and activists are coming under attack from extremist groups on the one hand, and, in many countries, also from their own governments.
Meanwhile, extremists are literally killing off civil society in some countries.
Flimsy civil misdemeanors.
Our cyber civil rights are at stake.
This is known as civil inattention.
Well, in the course of studying these and a bunch of other success stories, like the way Rwanda pulled itself back together after civil war or Brazil has reduced inequality, or South Korea has kept its economy growing faster and for longer than any other country on Earth, I've noticed a few common threads.
Anna was born in 1083, shortly after her father seized control of the Roman Empire following a decade of brutal civil wars and revolts.
It's a civil rights problem.
And so if we do nothing to address the digital security divide, if we do nothing to ensure that everyone in our society gets the same benefits of encryption and is equally able to protect themselves from surveillance by the state, not only will the poor and vulnerable be exposed to surveillance, but future civil rights movements may be crushed before they ever reach their full potential.
I've done it with civil rights groups.
Right now, I'm working at a civil rights organization in DC, called Equal Justice Under Law.
I come from a family of civil rights advocates, and I had spent my career until that point working with low-income children and families.
When we first saw telephones come in, people were worried it would destroy all civil conversation.
People often lament that digital communication makes us less civil, but this is one advantage that online conversations have over in-person ones.
But misidentifying a suspected criminal is no laughing matter, nor is breaching civil liberties.
DB: Yeah, I guess I would say I don't think we can teach each other to be civil, and give us sermons on civility.
They're civil servants.
After Yale and a law degree from Columbia, Clyde spent the next 30 years as one of America's top civil rights lawyers.
Most physicists of the time would have scoffed at the idea that this minor civil servant could have much to contribute to science.
So, "How can I be civil to someone who is set out to destroy everything I stand for?
It's used to silence civil rights protesters in the 20th century.
Because to be merely civil is to meet a low bar grudgingly, and that, again, makes sense, because civility is a virtue that's meant to help us disagree, and as Hobbes told us all those centuries ago, disagreeable means unpleasant for a reason.
Similarly, being civil can't be the same as being nice, because being nice means not telling people what you really think about them or their wrong, wrong views.
No, being civil means speaking your mind, but to your opponent's face, not behind her back.
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