BOOK REVIEWS What's "Possibility"? How do you live a life of possibility? What's possible when you live a life of possibility? How do you learn to live a life of possibility? Should these questions be of importance to you, then these are what you can turn to: (a) the book The Art of Possibility-Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander (Harvard Business School Press, 2000) and (b) two video-based training programs (Leadership: An Art of Possibility and Attitude: Radiating Possibility). I have read the book several times and have conducted six programs using the videos and their respective leader's guides. Based on my own experience of practicing what the Zanders teach in these, and listening to reports of those who I have trained, I am convinced of the enormous difference the book and the videos can make to your life! The Book Let me begin with giving you a glimpse of two different worlds that the Zanders base their thoughts on-the world of measurement and the universe of possibility. The dominant paradigm of our everyday world is characterized by assessments, standards, grades, comparisons, competition, win-lose, and so on. The Zanders call this the "world of measurement." Regarding this world, they say, "All the manifestations of the world of measurement-the winning and losing, the gaining of acceptance and the threatened rejection, the raised hopes and the dash into despair-all are based on a single assumption that is hidden from our awareness (italics added). The assumption is that life is about staying alive and making it through-surviving (italics in the original) in a world of scarcity and peril. Even when life is at its best in the measurement world, this assumption is the backdrop for the play, and… it keeps the universe of possibility out of view." (p. 18) In this world, we impose constraints on our lives, we live within boxes, and "…virtually everybody, whether living in the lap of luxury or in diminished circumstances, wakes up in the morning with the unseen assumption that life is about struggle to survive and get ahead in a world of limited resources." (p.19
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