http://blogs.holstgroup.co.uk/greenhat_thinking/2009/07/02/perception/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://blogs.holstgroup.co.uk/greenhat_thinking/2009/07/02/perception/comment-page-1/#comment-1688 Mark Abrahams Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:31:43 +0000 http://blogs.holstgroup.co.uk/greenhat_thinking/?p=655#comment-1688 In agreeing with the essence of De Bono's blog I suggest that FEAR plays as big a part in misdirecting religiously bent perceptions. This is not new. Anyone with half of an intact brain, especially anyone who has experienced fear at the hands of others, knows that our modern day failures have been caused or brought about by fear. So, over the ages, threat has been promoted by politicians and religious leaders alike – to ends which may not necessarily benefit the populous. Have recent events changed that fact? Even in world of education, POWER remains the major threat to vital change. How we educate our leaders is therefore the key. Again, we need applied Ghandi thinking. In Iran, if we are to learn best what needs to be learned, we must observe the power of the voice of the people. They’ve done it before, with the Shar ...and we’ve done it with Obama – for that was surely the result of international pressure of the mass voice – reaching in to a badly informed, self interested, previously poorly informed USA. The positives of Iraq? That! If we are to arrive at a mutually acceptable vantage, a perception we can all share and agree to follow, like a plane endlessly adjusting its direction on a planned journey in which the perspective constantly changes, then we, in the creative thinking industries’, need a louder voice, accurate data on which to reinforce our view of the perspective...then movement, as a supportive and supported front, towards the drop off point. Simply, we need to fly our ships so that they no longer keep returning to port, so continuing on our better guided voyage of discovery and application. That way lies the real change we seek. In agreeing with the essence of De Bono’s blog I suggest that FEAR plays as big a part in misdirecting religiously bent perceptions.
This is not new.
Anyone with half of an intact brain, especially anyone who has experienced fear at the hands of others, knows that our modern day failures have been caused or brought about by fear.
So, over the ages, threat has been promoted by politicians and religious leaders alike – to ends which may not necessarily benefit the populous. Have recent events changed that fact?
Even in world of education, POWER remains the major threat to vital change.
How we educate our leaders is therefore the key. Again, we need applied Ghandi thinking.
In Iran, if we are to learn best what needs to be learned, we must observe the power of the voice of the people. They’ve done it before, with the Shar …and we’ve done it with Obama – for that was surely the result of international pressure of the mass voice – reaching in to a badly informed, self interested, previously poorly informed USA. The positives of Iraq? That!
If we are to arrive at a mutually acceptable vantage, a perception we can all share and agree to follow, like a plane endlessly adjusting its direction on a planned journey in which the perspective constantly changes, then we, in the creative thinking industries’, need a louder voice, accurate data on which to reinforce our view of the perspective…then movement, as a supportive and supported front, towards the drop off point.
Simply, we need to fly our ships so that they no longer keep returning to port, so continuing on our better guided voyage of discovery and application. That way lies the real change we seek.

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