ABSTRACT
In Chapter One, we began to describe the way in which attention can be used as an approach to working in groups. However, attention is as vulnerable as any other state of mind to the vagaries of human interaction and emotion. The stories we chose were intended to illustrate two things: first, the nature of attention, and second, the way in which individuals and groups can, at any moment, lose the focus of their attention and allow themselves to be distracted by other things. We now turn to this phenomenon of distraction—when attention becomes misdirected, divided, or lost.
