Entrained thinking is a conditioned response that occurs when people are blinded to new ways of thinking by the perspectives they acquired through past experience, training, and success.
Credit: Dave Snowden & Mary Boone, A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making, Harvard Business Review, 2007
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