>...that all my students already know everything I want them to understand,
and that what I'm trying to do is point it out to them. This involves
sort of poking around in their mental attics and basements, finding the
piece of mental furniture that they seemed to have need of, dragging it
down or up, dusting it off, and helping them find some useful place for it
in one of their living rooms.<end quote>
Excellent! Exquisite! Exactly! I am also finding this to be true with our
executives as they struggle with defining their people strategies and
operating principles. They know what needs to be said and how they feel
but they struggle with how that furniture looks with all of the other
"office furniture" they have placed in the living room. What I am finding
is that they just want to re-upholster what is there. How can I make them
see that 10 - 20 years from now they may move to a new condo and need new
modern furniture? (alright, enough with the analogy). They struggle with
finding new paradigms and moving from today's mental models. Any
suggestions?
-- Dave Reed (206)655-3245 M/S 11-04 Internet Address: dpr9989@kgv1.bems.boeing.com