{"id":1173,"date":"2012-09-26T13:09:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facilitativeleadership.wordpress.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:26:29","slug":"facilitators-vs-dictators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgrush.com\/blog\/facilitators-vs-dictators\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitators vs. Dictators: Facilitators are More Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comparing facilitators vs dictators we surprisingly discover that the term \u2018facilitator\u2019 becomes more popular. As measured by frequency of use, the trend for facilitator rises since 1995. The message is clear. If you want to be more popular, be a facilitator and not a dictator!<\/h2>\n

For example, in the chart and results below, we compared the occurrences of the terms \u2018war\u2019 and \u2018peace.\u2019\u00a0 As you can tell, the use of both terms are declining. The term \u2018war\u2019 remains largely prevalent and the term \u2019peace\u2019 experienced a slight rise during the Viet-Nam conflict era, the 70\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Simply turn your browser to\u00a0http:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\u00a0and insert commas to separate phrases or terms and compare their occurrence in published\u00a0English\u00a0language books over the past 200 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Facilitators vs. Dictators<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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