Consider how scientists, mathematicians, psychologists and meteorologists have had tremendous success when they step outside the stiff boundaries required by linear thinking.
Linear thinking on the solution can doom a startup or an entrepreneur.
Our brains, oriented towards linear thinking, have difficulty adjusting to a world in which innovation and the growth of intangible capital can proceed at exponential rates.
One possibility is that mathematical expertise, a character trait possessed by many investors and typically seen as a desirable feature for that vocation, promotes linear thinking.
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As a result of the conflict with traditional management values, Agile approaches have had a hard time winning widespread acceptance from managers imbued with traditional linear thinking.
Intuition is what disconnects button-downed, linear thinking.
Yet we continue to operate as if we can magically superimpose control, accurate long-range forecasts, accurate budget projections, ever-increasing performance arrows and other products of strictly linear thinking on those complex and interwoven conditions beyond our four walls and that, somehow, it will all work out just as planned.
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Focusing on a single problem and memorizing the prison and its routines are perfect examples of linear or convergent thinking.
The book (for which she received a whopping quarter-million dollar advance) is a whack in the head for anyone stuck in traditional, linear, fixed ways of thinking about career and success.
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Thinking of it as having a linear evolution, she says, is less beneficial, and less accurate.
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