The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business

CONTENTS......Page 38
(AN ASIDE) IS THIS ANY WAY TO START A BOOK?......Page 24
ENDNOTES......Page 26
HIJACKING OUR MINDS......Page 46
Mental Models......Page 47
What We See Is What We Think......Page 51
The Importance of Mental Models......Page 53
Thinking the Impossible......Page 55
ENDNOTES......Page 57
PART 1 RECOGNIZE THE POWER AND LIMITS OF MENTAL MODELS......Page 58
CHAPTER 1 OUR MODELS DEFINE OUR WORLD......Page 60
THE PARALLEL UNIVERSES IN OUR MINDS......Page 65
WHERE \"MODELS\" COME FROM......Page 68
AVOIDING OBSOLESCENCE......Page 73
THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODELS......Page 75
ENDNOTES......Page 77
CHAPTER 2 RUNNING THE MIRACLE MILE......Page 78
THE POWER OF MODELS......Page 83
PERILS OF MODELS......Page 85
THE HUMAN SPIRIT IS INDOMITABLE......Page 89
ENDNOTES......Page 91
PART 2 KEEPING YOUR MODELS RELEVANT......Page 94
CHAPTER 3 SHOULD YOU CHANGE HORSES?......Page 96
KNOWING WHEN TO SWITCH HORSES......Page 103
OFF TO THE RACES......Page 112
ENDNOTES......Page 113
CHAPTER 4 PARADIGM SHIFTS ARE A TWO-WAY STREET......Page 114
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW......Page 116
THE SEQUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS......Page 120
SOMETIMES WE GO ONLY ONE WAY......Page 122
THE PARADIGM SWING: LIVING IN ST. PETERSBURG......Page 124
PARADIGMS WHOSE TIME HAS NOT YET COME......Page 126
SEEING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS......Page 128
ENDNOTES......Page 131
CHAPTER 5 SEEING A NEW WAY OF SEEING......Page 134
HOW TO SEE DIFFERENTLY......Page 137
NEW MAPS......Page 147
ENDNOTES......Page 148
CHAPTER 6 SIFT FOR SENSE FROM STREAMS OF COMPLEXITY......Page 150
THROWING A DROWNING MAN ANOTHER MEGABYTE OF DATA......Page 155
IT\'S ALL ABOUT CONTEXT......Page 158
THE PROCESS OF ZOOMING IN AND ZOOMING OUT......Page 162
EXTREME THINKING: SIMULTANEOUS ZOOMING IN AND OUT......Page 172
AN APPLICATION: DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?......Page 173
ZOOMING......Page 174
ENDNOTES......Page 176
CHAPTER 7 ENGAGE IN R&D OF THE MIND......Page 178
THE NEED FOR EXPERIMENTS......Page 180
CONDUCTING COGNITIVE R&D......Page 182
INTO THE LABORATORY......Page 189
LIFE AS A LABORATORY: CONTINUOUS ADAPTIVE EXPERIMENTATION......Page 193
ENDNOTES......Page 194
PART 3 TRANSFORM YOUR WORLD......Page 196
CHAPTER 8 DISMANTLE THE OLD ORDER......Page 198
PERSISTENCE OF MODELS......Page 200
CHANGING MODELS: REVOLUTION OR EVOLUTION......Page 202
SMOOTHING THE WAY TO A NEW ORDER......Page 204
CASTLES IN THE AIR......Page 210
ENDNOTES......Page 212
CHAPTER 9 FIND COMMON GROUND TO BRIDGE ADAPTIVE DISCONNECTS......Page 214
ADAPTIVE DISCONNECTS......Page 216
THE NEED FOR UNLEARNING......Page 218
ADDRESSING ADAPTIVE DISCONNECTS......Page 219
ADAPTING THE WORLD......Page 226
ENDNOTE......Page 227
PART 4 ACT QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY......Page 228
CHAPTER 10 DEVELOP THE INTUITION TO ACT QUICKLY......Page 230
WHAT IS INTUITION?......Page 232
THE POWER OF CREATIVE LEAPS......Page 234
DANGERS OF INTUITION......Page 235
DEVELOPING YOUR CAPACITY FOR INTUITION......Page 238
MODELS IN ACTION......Page 243
ENDNOTES......Page 244
HOWARD SCHULTZ......Page 246
OPRAH WINFREY......Page 251
ANDY GROVE......Page 256
CONCLUSIONS......Page 261
ENDNOTES......Page 264
CHAPTER 12 CHALLENGING YOUR OWN THINKING: PERSONAL, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY......Page 266
HEALTHY THINKING: MAKING SENSE IN PERSONAL LIFE......Page 267
DOT-COM: MAKING SENSE IN BUSINESS......Page 273
TERRORISM AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: MAKING SENSE IN SOCIETY......Page 283
ENDNOTES......Page 290
CONCLUSION: WHAT YOU THINK IS WHAT YOU DO......Page 292
Beyond Possibility......Page 294
APPENDIX: THE NEUROSCIENCE BEHIND MENTAL MODELS......Page 296
CORE CONCEPTS......Page 298
EXPLICATIONS......Page 305
ENDNOTES......Page 311
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 314
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 318
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