Unilever

Unilever used a designer to shake up the status quo: one division had to turn the employees' eating area into an outdoor-picnic environment. The experiment was designed to encourage workers to think out of the box.

Paradigm Crisis as a Catalyst of Outside-the-Box Thinking

Your concepts of business environment, organizational structures and management are based on paradigms. If your organizational structures and management systems are no longer able to perform as effectively as alternative ones based on entirely different paradigms you will at first experience a paradigm crisis... More

 The Buddhist Approach to Life vs. Western Science

"In the Western psychology, there is an assumption that everything must be accounted for within this lifetime," says Dalai Lama of Tibet. "So, when you can't explain what is causing certain behaviors or problems, the tendency is to always attribute it to the unconscious. It's a bit like you've lost something and you decide that the object is in this room. And once you have decided this, then you've already fixed your parameters; you've precluded the possibility of its being outside the room or in another room. So you keep on searching and searching, but you are not finding it, yet you continue to assume that it is still hidden somewhere in the room!"... More