Learning disabilities• I am my Position• Trained to be loyal to our

jobs• Little sense of responsibility

for results produced when positions interact

• When results disappointing - assume that someone else messed up

• The enemy is out there• Propensity to find

someone or something outside ourselves to blame when things go wrong

• Fixation on events• Focus on sudden events

& not on gradual processes

• Arms race • Environmental decay

• The parable of the boiled frog

• Maladaptation to gradually building threats to survival

• Internal apparatus geared for sensing threats to sudden changes

• Not to gradual changes

• The delusion of learning from experience

• We learn best from experience but never directly experience consequences of our most important decisions

• Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants

• Living systems have integrity• To understand the most

challenging issues requires seeing the system as a whole

• Blind men & the elephant