Chapter 5Frameworks and Mindsets
Why is opportunity so hard to see when it is staring you right in the face? There are signals of opportunity everywhere around us, but until we assign meaning and value to them, we act as if they don’t exist.
The poet Goethe said that ‘the hardest thing to see is what’s in front of your eyes,’ and that is because within the world of reality we see according to the frameworks we have constructed in our mind. We design these frameworks in order to clarify the purpose of things in our life, in order to give them meaning, and in order to arrange them in a sequence that we can understand. Organizations are such frameworks, as are relationships we construct within. The framework is designed to allow us to arrange ...
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