Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership

Chapter 9. Conscious Process Thinking

Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up. If we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However, when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives (i.e., in his world-view), then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks. Rather, one has to view the world in terms ...