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Summary: The Power of Impossible Thinking Alejandro Fernández Partner Sales Executive [email protected] Transform the Business of your Life and the Life of your Business by Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Colin Crook with Robert Gunther Wharton School Publishing © 2005

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Summary: The Power of Impossible Thinking

Alejandro Fernández

Partner Sales Executive

[email protected]

Transform the Business of your Life and the Life of your Business

by Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Colin Crook with Robert GuntherWharton School Publishing © 2005

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People do not see reality; but each person sees an individual mental model of reality.

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Your mental model is the product of your education, experience and imagination

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People can change their mental models and it is important to develop the ability to do so.

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When mental models are out of alignment with reality, disaster ensues

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Because the world is changing, it is easy for individual mental models to fall out of alignment with reality

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Continuously re-evaluate, experiment and reinvent your mental models

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Do not discard or embrace a mental model prematurely

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Value extremists and radicals. Learn to see the world through their eyes if only as an experiment,

to try a different mental model.

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Key Questions

How much are you trusting in what seems to be?

How your mental models are shaping your sales performance?

Which mental models would you challenge in order to achieve better results?

What kind of experiment can you make to test the limits of your mental models at work?

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