Empowerment #4: Embrace an "AND" Mentality
"AND" Mentality embraces differing perspectives to blend, bend, and break apart the different ideas to create something more powerful and more empowering than what was there before.
Another history lesson (I always loved history in middle school): If you had challenged car manufacturers in 1979 to increase horsepower while also improving mileage per car, the automobile executives would have looked at you like you had lobsters crawling out of your ears. However, that is exactly what happened.
The car manufacturers in the 1970s operated with an "OR" mentality—customers could have cars with good "fuel mileage OR horsepower" but not both. However, the automobile industry was forced to reframe this mindset when the U.S. government mandated higher vehicle fuel mileage in 1975 and then again in 2007. And instead of going out of business, car manufacturers (or at least some of them—I&apos...
