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The Pervasiveness of Alternative-Focused Thinking

In his 2010 book, Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson recommends ways to increase creative turbulence

The single most important skill and most undervalued capacity for exercising adaptive leadership is diagnosis. In

This transforms Abela’s decision machine into more of an inspirational guide.

Insights transform how we see; we look for different things in keeping with our new story.

That leads to the fourth suspect. Can contradictions lead to insights?

The recommendation to filter out irrelevant data sounds good as long as we know in advance which data are relevant.

Excessive management controls, however, get in the way of insights because they impose costs—time and effort—for making changes. Performance depends on keeping the arrows in balance.