School with Pay – Five Paradigms to Break

All of us attended school at some point, and after varying stages and levels of formal education, we left, to head out into the big wide world and into adult working life.

Or did we? Is your job still like school, with pay?

If School with Pay describes our mindsets and collective attention, could it be that when it comes to work and the jobs we do, we exited the school building, but didn't really ‘leave’? Could it be that the protocols, behaviours and reactions we experience in our day jobs are simply a replica of behaviours and structures we learned back at school?

In situations with these ways of thinking, your Boss is the Teacher. Their Boss is the Principal. And everyone else is a student, with ...

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