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In her book Time to Think Nancy Kline identifies freeing the mind of ‘untrue limiting assumptions, lived as true’ as one of the ten behaviours that generate the finest independent thinking which she calls Ten Components of a Thinking Environment.
How to rethink your way to an open mind – In this article for the FT, Adam Grant shares how to encourage open-mindedness and how better results is linked to regularly re-examining assumptions. (Paywall)
The book Think Again by Adam Grant reveals that we don’t have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It’s an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.
This short animation (15 minutes) summarises the main ideas in the book Think Again by Adam Grant.
The Science of Reasoning with Unreasonable people – Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.
This article touches on assumptions, as well as experimentation, learning and networks: The Systems Thinker – The Inescapable Need to Change Our Organizations: An Interview with Peter Senge – The Systems Thinker and draws on some of the thinking in Peter Senge’s book: The Fifth Discipline – The Art & Practice of the Learning Organisation.
This example from the investors Baillie Gifford is an excellent one in codifying a set of shared beliefs which the business holds.