Managing complex situations cannot be dealt with linear thinking. Another sort of thinking is required: non-linear thinking, also called lateral thinking. The thing is, our education is very much oriented towards linear, inductive thinking. We definitely to up our collective game in lateral thinking.
Lateral thinking is tough because it is related to creativity, “thinking out of the box”, and taking leaps and bounds beyond logical induction. This leads to many dead ends, failures and mistakes. But that is required to find a way in the ever-more complex world.
Staying with logical, linear, inductive thinking can only keep us within the same context that we are in. If we are to find disruptive solutions, we definitely need to adopt lateral thinking. When do you start upping your own game?
