The operation of a 'productive alliance' under the conditions detailed above requires participants to adopt the business mindset necessary for managing a commodity plantation.
For those who are willing, altering a fear-based mindset requires discerning what fundamentally frightens us, detailing it out and considering the evidence and the bigger picture.
(See a new book by the education researcher and writer Samuel Abrams, "Education and the Commercial Mindset," for the details).
While he has not explained in much detail the status of this mindset nor what it exactly entails, we believe it might be characterized or determined by an 'interpersonal ethos'.
By its choice of phrasing, a headline can influence your mindset as you read so that you later recall details that coincide with what you were expecting.
They are convinced, and have convinced their boss, that getting Japan out of its deflationary funk is less about policy details than perception in particular, about shaking people out of a deflationary mindset.
"Contracts in China allow for things to change," he says, smiling at the legalistic mindset of most foreign investors who get bogged down in procedural detail.
It's about the attention to detail, the level of sensitivity and creativity that is applied and, again, the mindset that demands that nothing less than perfection is good enough.
This mindset can result in shame and an overall unwillingness to divulge the details of rape.
For all the extensive detail it provides, what this report cannot fully convey - especially to a global audience - is the mindset that supported the negligence behind this disaster.
