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Talking Past Each Other: Paradigms & Interests

This past week I was invited to speak at the  National Women’s Leadership Summit sponsored by the Louisiana Center for Women and Government.

The conference focused on the issue of energy. Earlier in the week I attended a conference sponsored by the ILR school called, Jobs. Justice. Climate.

After both events it was immediately obvious that it was a challenge to speak across interests, but it was a greater challenge to speak across paradigms.

In The Structure of the Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn he notes that paradigms operate as constraining psychological mechanisms that entangle thoughts and at times can strain creativity….