understanding: the pathway to better results
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THE PATHWAY TO BETTER RESULTS
UNDERSTANDING
Phillip Thomas
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“EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL YOU GET PUNCHED IN THE FACE.” MIKE TYSON
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WE DON’T UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER
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WE DON’T UNDERSTAND OURSELVES
& OFTEN
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ALAN GREENSPAN American Economist / Former
Federal Reserve Chairman
“I know you think you understand … what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
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PROBLEMS THIS CREATES
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PROBLEMS …PRETTY BIG
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“PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED BY THE SAME LEVEL OF THINKING THAT CREATED THEM.” ALBERT EINSTEIN
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UNDERSTAND WHAT IF WE COULD
EACH OTHER
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THE OTHER PERSON AND WHAT
WANTED
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NOW THAT WOULD BE PRETTY COOL NOT ALBERT EINSTEIN
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THREE CONCEPTS
MENTAL MODELS
LEFT HAND THINKING
LADDER OF INFERENCE
SOME QUICK DEFINITIONS
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MENTAL MODELS
Mental models are images, representations, or schemes of how we perceive and understand the world around us. Like all models, mental models are abstractions of reality. The model is less complex than the real world. No matter how well constructed, all models are wrong in some context or time.
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how do you see the world?
What factors help you choose what to see
…and how to give it meaning
…and how to interpret it
…and how to respond
…and how would your feelings influence it?
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LEFT HAND THINKING
Think of your mind in 2 parts:
• Part 1: what you say this is your right hand column
• Part 2: what you think, but do not say this is your left hand column
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LEFT HAND THINKING
What if each of you could understand what was
in each others
left hand column?
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LEFT HAND THINKING
…communication would be easy …wouldn’t it?
….and sometime, embarrassing! (we won’t deal with that for now!
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LET’S TRY AN EXERCISE
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…in order to understand our left hand column (lhc),
and other people, lhc,
we can use the….
LEFT HAND THINKING
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We live in a world of self-generating beliefs which remain largely untested.
We adopt those beliefs because they are based on conclusions,
which are inferred from what we observe, plus our past experience.
LADDER OF INFERENCE
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Our ability to achieve the results we truly desire is eroded by our feelings that:
– Our beliefs are the truth. – The truth is obvious. – Our beliefs are based on real data. – The data we select are the real data.
LADDER OF INFERENCE
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LADDER OF INFERENCE
The above image is the property of Peter Senge (Taken from the Fifth Discipline)
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Understanding is a creative process and not a prescriptive one.
Communication is like soccer – how you manage the space decides the
effectiveness of the outcome – and space control is a team effort! (with credit to David Brooks)
Closing Thoughts
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“IN ORDER TO CHANGE AN EXISTING PARADIGM YOU DO NOT STRUGGLE TO TRY AND CHANGE THE PROBLEMATIC MODEL. YOU CREATE A NEW MODEL MAKE THE OLD ONE OBSOLETE.”
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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YOU THANK
QUESTIONS?