Mastering the theory and practice of how the mind organizes experience into pre-established patterns presents an opportunity for the radical transformation of individuals and business organizations.

The basic principles which govern your mode of learning manage your experience of life and pre-determine your performance. Perception, emotion, language, culture, ideas, and stories are all edited by the governing principles which manage your experience. By understanding the governing ideas which manage your pre-established patterns of thinking, talking and acting you can radically transform your organization’s strategy, communication and performance.

Organizational metamorphosis originates in personal transformation. It originates in understanding deeply how experience is organized and then using this knowledge practically to generate change. In fact learning is about understanding the rules of change.

The Unfrozenmind Quadrant is based on a psychological principle that governs leadership through ideas: that experience is organized into pre-established emotional patterns. And because experience is conditioned, it can be trained.

It follows that an individual potential is determined by the level of training and mastery of the pre-established patterns that organize their experience. Unfrozenmind puts the mind and the skilful use of imagination front and centre in the boardroom. In fact it is the boardroom’s lack of understanding of how the mind works that is, and will be, in all likelihood, the major obstacle to personal and corporate success. Because we operate in a way that fails to recognize how the mind edits and shapes our experience (frozen logic), we actually fail to learn. This mode of “learning not to learn” , learned incapacity, means that state of perpetual deep freeze.

The Unfrozenmind Quadrant is based on the marriage of two concepts: one of Noble Business and the other of personal transformation. Personal transformation relates to a particular discipline/model of learning. Noble Business is not a measurement of productivity but is an indicator of the shift in the marketplace towards an economy based on human meaning. It marks the relationship between your model of learning and the likelihood of creating organic growth/new revenues/new marketplaces borne from unshackled imaginations. Ideas, great ideas which change the world and redefine human experience.

The Unfrozenmind Quadrant used in conjunction with the Lotus-Economy Quadrant describes the movement from a man-machine confusion to self-discovery, to self-investigation… It allows you to place in context the naïve economist view of human beings and social relationships which is perpetuated by the world of business education and their dedication to creating a cadre great at managing numbers.

It can be seen that Training and Consulting and the latest fad, the Creative’s, design orientated MBA’s are redundant forces in the Lotus Economy. Just talk to those guys out there, they are struggling to find a foothold in a world which is switching from humans by numbers to humans by dreams initiatives. MBA design/innovation schools are doomed to failure unless they shift their philosophical premise from the machine organization to organizations that look more like Universities of old. You know the Greek concept, where learning itself is the premise for discovery. For heaven’s sake we have the political elites of France and the United Kingdom who are seeking to remove the study of history, the study of culture from the University curriculum. In our madness we have reduced Higher education to economics.

The Unfrozenmind quadrant reveals the organizational battle between a learning model which seeks to optimize and control human behavior in relation to business performance, and the Unfrozenmind model, which seeks to transform human potential, to celebrate the human journey, to celebrate culture, learning for the sake of human discovery, to change the game. Let’s rock.