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Two Interactive Mental Models1 |
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Paradigms
– external to you; shared; a universally accepted model providing
the context for understanding and
decision making in a
particular field
Knowledge
Structures
– internal to you; individual; the way you think and what you
think about. "When new information is compatible with your knowledge
structures it is accepted, when it does not mesh with your
pre-conceived ideas or past experience it receives little
consideration, is distorted or ignored."
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Same Reality,
Different Perceptions
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3 Types of
Managerial Responses
to a
Paradigm Crisis
When Existing
Organizational Structures and Management Systems are No Longer Able to
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Improving
Existing Structures:
to try harder, to do more and do it faster using the same structures
and practices. "But if we always do what we have always done, we
will always get what we have always got – and poor performance
delivered more quickly at greater effort is still poor performance."1
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Denial and frustration
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Radical
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Change: the best
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way out of the problem is to create or adopt a new way of doing things. This
new way will require new patterns of
outside-the-box thinking
and
proactive innovation.
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References:
1.
"Thinking Outside the Comfort Zone", Jerry Sentell
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Motivation123, Jason Gracia |
Paradigm
Crisis
and Paradigm
Shift
"The future ain't
what it used to be." ~ Yogi Berra
Paradigms describe a basis for
anticipation of specific events; they
do not deal with values per se. When an existing paradigm no longer
adequately explains or predicts relevant phenomenon and no replacement has
been a paradigm crisis takes hold.
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4 WHYs of True Success
To adopt a new paradigm you need to
open your mind and start
thinking
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differently,
outside the box.
"The only way a paradigm crisis can be resolved
is by replacing an old, no longer adequate paradigm with a new and different
one that explains and predicts better than the original, a paradigm shift.
Paradigm shifts do not involve simply slight modifications to the existing
model. They instead replace and render the old model obsolete. says
Jerry Sentell."1
Creating
a
Paradigm Shift
Empower yourself to change
the world!
"Throughout history significant paradigm shifts
are almost always
led by
those
at the fringes of a paradigm, not those with
a vested interest (intellectual, financial or otherwise) in maintaining the
current paradigm, regardless of its obvious shortcomings"1
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