Contents
Introduction: The Power of Insight at Work
1. Life Repeats Itself Until We Learn
2. Go with Your "FLOW" for Optimal Experiences
3. Follow Your Energy
4. Lack of Fit Is Not Failure
5. If You Get It Right the First Time, Every Time, You Aren't Risking Enough
6. Tune In to Your Natural Discovery Process
7. Breaks from Expectations Can Lead to Key Learning Events
8. Develop Resilience by Learning to Accommodate Adversity
9. Manhole Covers Are Round-Learn from the Patterns in Everyday Life
10. Provability Is a Weaker Notion Than Truth
11. Laughter Allows One to Suspend Judgment
12. Analogies and Metaphors Unlock Closed Doors
13. Understand the Strength of Your Senses: Line of Sight, Field of Sound
14. Emphasize Your Dominant Sense to Enhance Your Learning
15. Develop Your Creativity, Your Intellect Will Follow
16. The Spirit of Diagnosis Is Discovery
17. Completing Crossword Puzzles Exemplifies Much of What People Find Frustrating In Business
18. Don't Ask the Question If You Can't Live with the Answer
19. Use an Action-Learning Process to Lead Change: Plant, Prune, Graft, and Proliferate
20. The Sweet Spot in Life Is Satisfying What We Want, What They Want, and What We Can Do-All at the Same Time
21. Get Off the Line to Avoid the Think-Act Dilemma
22. Be Both Strategic and Analytic-Those Types of Thought Need Each Other
23. Rules Are Tools (Not to Be Placed in the Hands of Fools)
24. Raisins Soaked in Water Do Not Become Grapes
25. "HeathkitsTM" Are More Valuable Than Solutions
26. Identify and Observe the Naturals-But Don't Listen to Them
27. How to Learn: Your Style Counts
28. Careers Are Jell-O(tm)
29. Don't Play the Blame Game-Accept and Learn from Your Mistakes
30. Accommodate Diversity Through Flexible Simplicity
31. Being Unreasonable May Be the Most Reasonable Approach
32. Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic
33. Foster Continuous Learning by Embracing Waves of Change