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Mindset
Deep Patterns: double justifications
The need for self-justification is one of our deepest individual and collectively shared beliefs. It calls upon a higher instance: a judge to whom we have to justify ourselves. In our individual lives, that role is often given to our parents. Casting a wider arch …
Collective Leadership
Shifting the Meaning of Leadership Roles: Thinking Leadership from the Employee Perspective – 1. How does the meaning come to be shifted? The Western world has some specific cultural patterns. One of these calls out to us already from the Story of Creation …
Collective Mindset & the Dynamics of Social Systems
Group dynamics are at the root of all work with social systems. There is a myriad of methods to use in trainings and workshops in order to cover these dynamics. They are effective as long as the issues at hand remain in the foreground and in everybody’s joint focus....
Simply not good enough: The perpetual message of insufficiency
When Arnold Gehlen described humans as insufficient creatures, he furnished this label with a positive interpretation. The human ability to design our life world grows out of the physical insufficiency of humankind, essentially establishing a dominance within it and...
Mindset: Limits and Opportunities
The concept of mindset and tenets has proved useful in the coaching context. It effectively supports cognitive flexibility and brings coachees into contact with a wider range of tools to actively meet the challenges delivered in their life and work settings. It is...
Some Thoughts about Mindset: a trending term
How we see the world, and what we know about it, is shaped by what has gone before: it is conditional. The notion that our perception and understanding creates an image of the world has long been doubted. At least since the time of Kant, we have known that perception...
Mindset – our basic thesis
Basic Thesis Each person acts from an individual mindset [as part of the personality]. Human communities act from a collective mindset [as part of culture]. What is a Mindset? A mindset comprises personal or collective dominant attitudes and thought patterns, as well...