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This is how tiny changes in words you hear impacts your thinking

Jim Schreier Posted on June 21, 2019 Posted in Facilitation, Implications Wheel, Strategic Exploration Tools

This is an article about “frames” — or perhaps better stated “PARADIGMS!” It has a global perspective on language in politics — but it also supports what we say during Implications Wheel introductions (and training on the “rules”) that “WORDS MATTER!!!” Article Link

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