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Gerald de Jaager. The Million Dollar Parrot: 25 Brief Stories for Big Breakthroughs
Introduction
The Scent on the Floor
What you leave behind can help you or it can hurt you
The Baboon Reflex
Fear makes animals, and people, do unproductive things
The Balance Pole
Hanging on to your tools in the wrong circumstances can have tragic results
The Bolero Challenge
Great results require attention to the accompaniment, not just the melody
The Homunculus
Sensing things wrongly is built into us
Signature Move
What word, phrase, or image sums up your organization?
The Garden Path
Our brains hate being misled
The Louis Armstrong Effect
Your impact on others can change the world
Figure and Ground
Shifting your focus lets you see much more
The Million Dollar Parrot
Everyone overvalues something
Einstein’s Compass
Little things can drive huge breakthroughs
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Organizational incompetence has a theme song
Bird-Brained Logic
Binary thinking can be okay for animals, but it’s generally unwise for humans
Shooting David Petraeus
Leaders often learn from going against the grain
The Mile Run
Some tests measure what doesn’t matter and miss what does
Abwoon D’bwashmaya
The way things are is not the only way they could be
The Insect-Size Buffalo
Too much close-in thinking can warp your sense of perspective
The Hedgehog and the Fox
An ancient classification scheme captures a persistent dilemma
The Puddle
Being comfortable can be the first step toward being gone
The Fly in the Urinal
Maintaining focus can be a simple matter of having the right target
Spencer’s Warbler
There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something
The Twenty-Dollar-Bill Auction
Look before you leap. Then look again
The Stirrup
Next thing you know, the world’s a different place. Will you see it in time?
The Caterpillar
Transformation isn’t always as glorious as it’s made out to be
The Saltshaker
Yes is the answer
Using the Lenses in Your Organization
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Here you will find twenty-five brief stories that can help you think about your world differently. They’re metaphors; they’re thought-starters—we call them new lenses because they enable you to see familiar things in new ways.
The lenses can be temporary ways of turning on your fullest creativity as you do some especially important thinking, or they may create new perspectives that will permanently affect how you view things. They will lead to positive differences in the way you think and act—as a leader, as an innovator, and perhaps as a person.
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that the wet flush of my fear is sharp
as the taste of an iron pipe, midwinter,
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