“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.” KnowsWarStoriesActionSocialCommonBrainKnowledgePracticeKnow HowLearningBloodTheoryConceptsManagementBoxesIntuitionCommon SenseStreamsConsumedPizzaNeatExplicitToppingsWar StoriesBest PracticesOsmosis Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.” PeopleFactsStoriesCultureStrongLosesAbilityLearningTeachingHeroDuesMythContemporaryPlotUnhappinessConstructsLifelongHeroines Author:Guy Claxton