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Horse Sense for People
Monty Roberts
The man who listens to horses talks to people.'Monty Roberts will make you marvel. The Man Who Listens to Horses will first break, then mend your heart.' New York TimesAlready famous for his way with horses, Monty Roberts now wants to revolutionise the way we communicate with each other. His principles of trust and non-violence, about which he speaks so passionately and lucidly in his public demonstrations, made corporations from all over the world send their managers to watch his work with horses. They saw that Monty's techniques could be applied to business leadership and training.People of all kinds all over the world write and talk to Monty Roberts everywhere, because his passion for understanding, for gentleness, for fairness, reaches all of his audiences. They respond to his ideas of how we can make the world in which we live and work a better place.'The demonstration by Monty Roberts taught us some valuable lessons in peoplemanship. Each of us learned something we could bring back to our daily lives.' Richard H Frank, Chairman, Walt Disney CommunicationsWe can't all meet him, so in response to the almost universal demand to Monty to make his life-changing thinking available to everyone, he wrote this book.
HORSE SENSE
FOR PEOPLE
MONTY ROBERTS
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William Collins
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers as Join-Up: Horse Sense for People in 2000
Copyright © Monty Roberts 2000, 2001
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Version: 2016-02-26
To those thousands of people who have come to me and said “You must give us the human version of the concept of Join-Up.”
CONTENTS
Cover (#u58c0c5ab-a0c5-538c-89e7-4259059c0011)
Title Page (#u5815e658-95d0-515a-ad0d-35148879a767)
Copyright (#ub19844c5-0bcc-5864-8e7e-a73c5db98040)
Dedication (#ubd0a3b5c-bcc7-53d7-a500-7486a0037ab5)
Forewords (#u04ccde01-5263-52c0-9170-0c13f05ea278)
One JOIN-UP: THE JOURNEY (#ue4e04399-6975-534b-b6f5-d99e12c2e6eb)
A STORY: The Mustang Mare (#ulink_886a9de5-ea01-5e5f-8ed9-a54eade21ed6)
How to Achieve Join-Up (#ulink_e4a8c6fe-f233-5c06-ba9d-91405105285c)
Join-Up: The Journey (#ulink_8e2ef303-83cc-5862-90cb-d7e9b713d0a2)
Join-Up in the Workplace (#ulink_c4d9a61d-828e-53ad-9f00-4f12b8fc05ee)
A CORPORATE EXPERIENCE: Paradyne (#ulink_8eb292e0-d557-5bb7-923e-bb355471475f)
A CORPORATE EXPERIENCE: Transit Mix (#ulink_caff84e1-4c2a-551b-bde5-dfbd23ae405c)
Two COMMUNICATION (#u62d3665e-733f-5b12-9dc6-fa9bea209538)
Father and Son (#ulink_ecc92a65-61b5-5254-acd5-1992da2dcd78)
Discovering the Language of Equus (#ulink_1044c92b-cd99-5b89-9f11-56d66d13dc97)
Body Language (#ulink_f6c7a272-4973-52c6-8b69-0a85e1e106c5)
A STORY: Cadillac
A STORY: Reading Each Other (#litres_trial_promo)
The Round Pen (#litres_trial_promo)
Why We Need Join-Up (#litres_trial_promo)
Imprinting Our Young (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Barlet (#litres_trial_promo)
Three AGAINST VIOLENCE (#litres_trial_promo)
The Road to Columbine (#litres_trial_promo)
Violence Through the Generations (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: PB (#litres_trial_promo)
Four TRUST (#litres_trial_promo)
What We Achieve Through Join-Up (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Blushing ET (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Tina (#litres_trial_promo)
A CORPORATE EXPERIENCE: CSX and Tropicana (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Betrayal (#litres_trial_promo)
Five RESPECT (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Brownie (#litres_trial_promo)
Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Learning (#litres_trial_promo)
The Blackboard System (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: The Trouble with Harry (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Where Do I Sign? (#litres_trial_promo)
Six THE GOOD PARENT (#litres_trial_promo)
Infants (#litres_trial_promo)
Spare the Rod (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: The Water Glass (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: There Are No Back Doors in Life (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Margaret’s Chore Chart (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: The Boy with Baggage (#litres_trial_promo)
Seven CHOICE (#litres_trial_promo)
Greg Ward (#litres_trial_promo)
A STORY: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover (#litres_trial_promo)
Crawford Hall (#litres_trial_promo)
The Muckers’ Story (#litres_trial_promo)
Eight CHANGE (#litres_trial_promo)
The Art of Listening (#litres_trial_promo)
Slow Is Fast (#litres_trial_promo)
A CORPORATE EXPERIENCE: Change and the Nature of Leadership (#litres_trial_promo)
Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Monty Roberts’s Ideas to Live By (#litres_trial_promo)
From Horses to Humans (#litres_trial_promo)
CONCLUSION (#litres_trial_promo)
Simplicity
The Power of Gentleness (#litres_trial_promo)
Appendices (#litres_trial_promo)
Corporations That Have Visited Flag Is Up Farms
Blackboards (#litres_trial_promo)
For Further Information (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
FOREWORDS (#ulink_4b6c6d0a-8026-52c7-a32c-09e2c2d7186c)
It took almost my business lifetime to begin to understand the tremendous power that can be leveraged when people’s individualism, creativity and wisdom are unleashed.
In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of enlightened forms of leadership that seek to engage, involve and inspire, as opposed to the long-standing practices of “direct and control.”
Meeting Monty Roberts and absorbing his philosophy was a really magical moment for me—I am inspired by his beliefs and impressed by his actions. He clearly demonstrates that kindness and respect for the horse are superior to the traditional breaking of the animal’s spirit. Monty’s notion that the teacher (or leader) must create an environment in which the student can learn and grow is simple, direct and honest—it fit perfectly with a style of leadership that I have been experimenting with since the early eighties.
Monty Roberts certainly listens to horses but, in my humble opinion, he delivers a powerful message to people and, in particular, people at all levels of leadership. What he achieves with a horse is a metaphor for a style of management—employees will produce exceptional results if they are treated with dignity, respect and honesty.
In the world of organizations and business we make the mistake of putting people in boxes and limiting their abilities and creativity—we need to find a means of changing the way people think about themselves, their jobs and how they work as individuals and in teams. I suggest you couldn’t start anywhere better than this book.
CLIVE WARRILOW
Volkswagen North America
CEO and President
I am not usually to be found kicking up the sawdust of a riding ring, especially if it means taking a long drive to get there. My encounters with horses have been limited to having them step on my feet on hot summer camp mornings nearly forty years ago. As an adult, I look at them as not much more than a one-horse power motorcycle with a mind for unpredictability. I once spent a ludicrous amount of money to ride a horse named “Cheesehead” while I looked, dry-mouthed, down a thousand-foot drop in Yosemite National Park convinced that my mount was more interested in biting the rear end of the horse in front of me than concentrating on his footing. I have never grasped why so many people, including gaggles of little girls, have such a big thing for these creatures of tonnage that can decide to run like a demented rabbit just because a piece of paper blows across the trail.
So again, I wonder why I am standing in sawdust while people with big shiny belt buckles, jeans and pointy boots mill around me. The loudspeakers are playing full orchestral renditions of “Don’t Fence Me In” and “Tumbling Tumble Weeds.” With my nondescript beige pants (khakis?) and T-shirt I must look out of place. I am also too fat to ride horses. I’m surrounded by opposites, hundreds of gangly men and tiny women. Like the horse they appear to love so deeply, they are a different species.
Oddly enough we are all here to see the only other person in the place who doesn’t look like he ever rides a horse, Monty Roberts. I’m here to see a man who deciphered the horse’s natural language, Equus. By demonstrating its application he is spreading the word about how to rid the world of outmoded concepts about the violent domination of horses. I rather suspect he has simply invented a way to convince a horse that it is in its best interest to allow itself to be ridden. Sure, he is kind of a Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey of the horse world, but I would just as soon watch that kind of thing on PBS.
Why am I here? Why has his best-selling book The Man Who Listens to Horses been read by millions of people like me who would just as soon never deal with a horse? The music stops and Monty walks into a circular metal fenced ring. He looks like a London cabby. This is the man who was a child prodigy, a wonder rider. Arguably he knows more about horses than any other person on this earth. His eyes are pale and full of life; yet ironically he is completely color-blind. At sixty-one he has the clarity and cadence of voice of a thirty-year-old. He’s not wearing a cowboy hat. There’s no denim, just a nondescript jacket.
This is the man who listens to horses. For his first act, he takes a horse that has never been ridden. He communicates with it by using a fascinating body language, all the while talking on a wireless to a hushed crowd. The horse moves nervously around the ring while he allows it, he tells us, to go the usual distance it would if a predator were trying to chase it down. Monty freely admits that he is the predator and gently induces a little anxiety that puts the horse into a trotting flight around the ring. Then Monty does his magic.
