The journey metaphor is a tired cliche yet it reflects the prevailing mindset among corporate management.
Even as this epidemic grew, the prevailing mindset was that these established approaches just needed to be applied more widely and with better execution rather than fundamentally rethought.
"If that is the prevailing mindset of people and this [incident with Jones] prompts them to understand Islam from a pure source, then they will be enlightened.
What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset?
There was an understory there (or at least I hoped there was) about having to rise to the occasion of love, about having to, salmon-like, swim against the current of one's prevailing mindset — anyway, that's what I felt was the heart of the story, but one of the means of getting there was a lot of invented products and commercials.
Agile entails an mindset that is explicitly different from the prevailing mindset of bureacracy and efficiency.
Instead they were implementing BPR within the prevailing mindset of efficiency and using BPR as a pretext to reduce head count.
In addition, customer transactions on private sites are collected, analyzed, shared and sometimes sold with a prevailing mindset that data ownership is at the organizational level.
The prevailing mindset of the development community is "We know what people need, we know how to deliver it, and we are here to give it to them". Experience has demonstrated that this is simply not true.
The prevailing mindset, as the old saying goes, was: "Don't confuse me with the facts".
Successful community-led development programs provide skilled facilitators who are able to transform the prevailing mindset of dependency and resignation, build community institutions, and help communities navigate the complexities of budget preparation, project management, transparency and accountability.
