They are helpful when they make it easier to understand new information, but they can also limit our viewpoint. They can blind us to new opportunities, or new ways of doing business. Barker also says that today's success can be the seed of tomorrow's failure. Obsolete behavioral and procedural models are often more troublesome than competitors. When we limit our mental horizons with preconceptions and prejudices, we automatically limit our opportunities.
History offers several lessons, and most modern examples involve businesses.
This book will show frequent examples of how Harris' Mountaintop plant discarded or overcame self-limiting paradigms. Buster A couple of thousand years ago, the Persian Empire was physically far stronger than Macedonia. This is why people in Asia Minor still speak the name Iskander with reverent awe. Alexander the Great's biography shows that he repeatedly overcame and ignored paradigms to achieve results. For example, there was a prophecy that whoever undid the Gordian Knot would rule Asia.