Excerpt from Indirect Work — Carol Sanford’s Latest Book Once upon a time, I used to take client groups I was working with to visit projects that I had helped establish. I wanted to inspire them and give them a sense of what was possible. Then one day I realized that what I was doing was having the exact opposite of its intended effect. When I walked onto these sites, I could see all kinds of things that were invisible to my tour participants. I could see people thinking creatively on their feet, open to new insights and information unfolding in present time. I could see processes and product offerings that were systemic enough in their implications to transform industries. I could see managers and workers interacting nonhierarchically toward shared purposes. All of this was visible to me because of the new mind I was using to interpret the phenomena in front of me, but it was always mostly invisible to the people on my tours, who were working from their old minds, chained in Socrates’ cave. What they saw simply served to reinforce what they already “knew” to be true.
We Are Blind To What We Don’t Believe
We Are Blind To What We Don’t Believe
We Are Blind To What We Don’t Believe
Excerpt from Indirect Work — Carol Sanford’s Latest Book Once upon a time, I used to take client groups I was working with to visit projects that I had helped establish. I wanted to inspire them and give them a sense of what was possible. Then one day I realized that what I was doing was having the exact opposite of its intended effect. When I walked onto these sites, I could see all kinds of things that were invisible to my tour participants. I could see people thinking creatively on their feet, open to new insights and information unfolding in present time. I could see processes and product offerings that were systemic enough in their implications to transform industries. I could see managers and workers interacting nonhierarchically toward shared purposes. All of this was visible to me because of the new mind I was using to interpret the phenomena in front of me, but it was always mostly invisible to the people on my tours, who were working from their old minds, chained in Socrates’ cave. What they saw simply served to reinforce what they already “knew” to be true.