Sep 29, 2014
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SHOW NOTES: In this episode, our topic is, “Why Telling Someone to ‘Think Different’ or to ‘Think Outside The Box’ Always Fails.”
In this show we discuss A
Stone* of Solutions™ including:
1) It fails because you are telling them how to
think.
2) People who think
differently already do so.
3) You can hire them but you cannot transform someone into that
type of person.
4) “Some specimens of consultant-speak are so cliched that they
have long lost any real meaning and have turned into the
conversational equivalent of an "ummmm." The most common of these
may be the hoary exhortation to "think outside the box. […] The
phrase means something like "think creatively" or "be original,"
and its origin is generally attributed to consultants in the 1970s
and 1980s who tried to make clients feel inadequate by drawing nine
dots on a piece of paper and asking them to connect the dots
without lifting their pen, using only four lines:”
-http://www.fastcompany.com/53187/outside-box-inside-story
5) If you thought differently you wouldn’t need others to do
so.
6) If
you tell them how to think differently they will do it (as they are
obedient), yet that would result in “Think Same” instead
of “Think
Different.”
7) Why do you think that they need to “Think
Different”?
8) Were
you told to do so by someone else? If so, doesn’t that illustrate
the absurdity and lack of logic of the
premise?
9) How will they simultaneously “Think Different” (i.e., create
innovative products and services never before imagined) while
continuing to “Think Same” and follow your rules
and [...]
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