But the reality is that perhaps a person is busy with 15 others things and when someone approaches him with still another he only pretends to listen. As a result no good communication occurs - and no good work. Another consultant concerned about the lack of listening is Wicke Chambers, a partner in Speechworks, a speech and media training firm in Atlanta. She says she and her partners detect problems with listening because they're constantly trying to figure out what makes people want to listen. Part of the problem, she agrees, is due to the super-fast pace of modern life.
People think listening is boring.
There's that old joke about the opposite of talking is not listening, but waiting to talk. That's what a lot of people do. They just wait to talk. Then, in some cases, they just talk and talk and talk. Listening touches everything in the business world-everything.