Those reading this thread might enjoy the paper entitled,
"Organizational Learning as Cognitive Re-definition: Coercive Persuasion
Revisited" by Edgar H. Schein on the MIT Organizational Learning
Network.
The URL is:
http://learning.mit.edu/res/wp/10010.html
Schein talks about "reframing," which, given what I've read about
unfreezing and refreezing is very similar.
But, as I'm not an expert on either cognitive redefinition or the
unfreezing and refreezing of mental models I can't make any substantial
claims.
--Ben Compton bcompton@geocities.com
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>