Afterword

I hope that this book has got you thinking—or, more accurately, rethinking. You will probably have experienced the sting of these dominant models failing you—not all fourteen but probably more than a few. I hope I have convinced you that you should stop blaming yourself for having applied the model poorly. Chances are that it wasn’t your fault—it was the model’s fault.

I don’t expect you to completely adopt the alternative model that I have presented in each chapter based on my argument. But I do hope that you give the alternative model a try. That is how you will move ahead and learn. You won’t learn by continuing to reapply the flawed model and experience its ineffectiveness; you will simply reconfirm that it doesn’t deliver. It’s ...

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