How many times did you found yourself in a situation where you needed to think outside the box, outside those limits that we set to our mind? And how many times after someone else (a more inspired one) shows all these possibilities that you didn’t see, you feel like how was it possible not to get, because it was right there, barely impossible to not see. Well, it’s all about how the situation occurs to us, how able we are to use all the power of language in order to improve our performance in life and organizations.
According to the authors there are certain rules that will change once for good your life and your company’s performance if followed. They show facts in many cases which support their ideas about the laws that will help leaders rewrite the future, a better new one.
The first law: “How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them”
To look at the situation under other lights, maybe brighter one so it can let you see clearer and further. In order to cross the boundaries that we carry from the past is necessary to redefine how we see things, and how we interpret them (when relating to our stories, beliefs or convictions), because there is more under what we see and what we hear.
The second law: “How situations occur arises in language”
Positive changes in our language and communication can change our lives and change our worlds. Our words and the meanings we attach to those words create attitudes, drive social policies and laws, influence our feelings and our decisions, affects people and more. The authors also explain that we humans deal with a phenomenon of the "communicate the unsaid but communicated."
The third law: “Future-based language transforms how situations occur to people”
Here it shows that language can be used in two different ways. One way is the descriptive one, when using language to represent things as they are or have been. Future-based language on the other way (or generative language) does not describe how a situation occurs, it transforms how it occurs. It has the power to create new futures, to create new visions. A power to motivate and make you discover new possibilities of the new future by leaving the default future which you were writing based on your past.
It's critical to remember that language defines our experience. So to be able to learn a new language there are stages you have to pass.
1. Seeing your "Terministic Screen" in action. Here is where you realize what’s inside the box, the common thinking and discover the new out there.
2. Building a New Terministic Screen. Think about the moment you get surprised by a change, and it gives you a new point of view, get to that point before it surprises you. (The example given by the authors is think about Galileo, the sun rising and setting, which lead to discover that the world was rotating)
3. You'll see New Opportunities for elevated performance everywhere. In this faze it’s possible to notice that you are looking to old situation in a new perspective.
By opening your mind to the ideas that Zeffron and Logan describe in this book you can find that starting from redefining the past problems and speaking a generative language it will be surprising how really you can rewrite your future.
Zaffron and Logan’s approach to leadership is to turn conversations upside down and dig beyond the words that are said to get to what’s really going on. What these guys do is go into organizations and help people to see the elephant that’s in the room and then describe the elephant, what it means to everyone and what they can do to deal with the elephant.
YanıtlaSil