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The Socialized Mind – an Example

In the last posting I talked of the way children are socialized when  they are young. This also happens in business, with even more pernicious results. Let me share a story with you.

Many years ago, I was consulting to a large Asian conglomerate – name withheld to protect the guilty. One of the responsibility areas of my specific client contact was international recruitment. My client contact spent a lot of time – and company money – traveling the world talking to young nationals who were on the verge of graduating. His purpose was to entice these national graduates – from the best business schools in Europe and America – to return to their homeland and work for this company.

That is fair and fine.

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In the previous postings, we explored the authors’ concept of levels of mental complexity. This was a new concept to me, and it probably is to you too, so we should explore it a bit further, because it is important to understand it since the rest of the book is based on it.

The following table explains the concept in a bit more detail:

The Three Adult Plateaus Described

So what does all that mean?

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In the previous posting we introduced one of the key foundation ideas of the book Immunity to Change, which was the concept of the three levels of mental complexity. The concept needs further exploration.

The bulk of the population are on or around the second plateau, the self-authoring mind, the characteristics of which are:

Moving through the Levels

The thinking at level 1 is very concrete – very black and white. As one moves to levels 2 and 3, the landscape becomes much greyer.

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Immunity to Change is a meaty book, as befits the results of the 25 years of practical experience of the authors. But note the word ‘practical’. Although the authors are academics, they have clearly spent a long time in the real world and they have come up with a very interesting approach which has the potential to bring about some serious changes in thinking in managerial and HR circles.

They introduce two new concepts very early in the book, an it is important that these are understood before you can get the most out of the bulk of the book.

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