The lens or the problem?
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The lens or the problem?
Life is a series of problems to be analyzed and addressed. How do we fix our failing schools? How do we reduce violence? These problem-centered questions are usually the wrong ones to ask. They focus on deficits, not gifts. A problem conversation tends to focus on one moment in time—the moment when a student didn’t graduate from high school, the mo... See more
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
A product visionary who imagines the dream solution for customers (customer lens) A pragmatic engineer who wants to build the product ASAP (pragmatic lens) A marketing wiz on a mission to make the business grow, grow, grow (growth lens) A finance expert intent on maximizing profit (money lens)
Jake Knapp • Click: The practical and effective guide to developing successful new ideas quickly, from the New York Times bestselling authors
This is why it is so important to control the biases and lenses we bring to our interactions. When you hear or see something, which interpretation do you jump to? What is your default interpretation of someone else’s intentions?
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
most people who go into business don’t have a model of a business that works, but of work itself, a Technician’s Perspective, which differs from the Entrepreneurial Perspective in the following ways: • The Entrepreneurial Perspective asks the question: “How must the business work?” The Technician’s Perspective asks: “What work has to be done?” • Th
... See moreMichael E. Gerber • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Peter Cundill on the power of perspective:
“I think it may be easier to see solutions if you can distinguish between context and content. If you can place a problem within the framework of the larger universe its dimensions are put into perspective and automatically diminished.”
The way to extraordinary growth and changes often involves a fundamental ontological or ‘lens’ shift in how you see the world. Magicians are wearing not just better, but fundamentally differently shaped lenses to the rest of us.