Post on 11-Apr-2015
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Learning disabilities• I am my Position• Trained to be loyal to our
jobs• Little sense of responsibility
for results produced when positions interact
• When results disappointing - assume that someone else messed up
• The enemy is out there• Propensity to find
someone or something outside ourselves to blame when things go wrong
• Fixation on events• Focus on sudden events
& not on gradual processes
• Arms race • Environmental decay
• The parable of the boiled frog
• Maladaptation to gradually building threats to survival
• Internal apparatus geared for sensing threats to sudden changes
• Not to gradual changes
• The delusion of learning from experience
• We learn best from experience but never directly experience consequences of our most important decisions
• Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants
• Living systems have integrity• To understand the most
challenging issues requires seeing the system as a whole
• Blind men & the elephant