Doing Things the "Right" Way by Kathy Paauw.

''You have your way. I have my way.  As for the right way,
 the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.''
 
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Those in charge often fall into the trap of identifying their own agendas and standards, along with a message that "my way is the only right way."  Virtually everybody wakes up in the morning with an unseen assumption that life is about the struggle to survive and get ahead in a world of limited resources.  This limited view squelches innovation and creativity, and it also trains people to focus on what they need to do to please their superiors by doing things the "right" way -- whether that way works for them or not.
In The Art of Possibility, the Zanders share a fundamental practice that is captured in the catch-phrase, "it's all invented." It's all a story you tell -- not just some of it, but all of it.  And every story you tell is founded on a network of hidden assumptions. 
 
Zander explains, "We do not mean that you can just make anything up and have it magically appear. We mean that you can shift the framework to one whose underlying assumptions allow for the conditions you desire. Let your thoughts and actions spring from the new framework and see what happens."  

Here's a great example of the power of shifting your framework and assumptions:  A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying, "Situation hopeless. No one wears shoes." The other writes back triumphantly, "Glorious business opportunity. They have no shoes!"
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