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UNDERSTANDING UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS
The way we respond to different situations depends on how we perceive the world and how we think it works. Living life is not a zero-based decision-making process. It tends most often to be an incremental process where we add and interpret new information to existing meanings and understandings that are rarely reevaluated in the process. If some generally accepted knowledge appears to have led to successful decisions in the past, we tend not to challenge that knowledge even though it may have become invalid over time and in view of changing situations. Over the 35 or so year life of our profession, much around us has changed. With the ever increasing speed and availability of communication resources; exponential growth in information technology; continuous population increases; consolidation of worldwide wealth, capital and resources; dramatic growth of corporate power; dramatic political changes; changing status of nations, growth of the agro industry, and more, no one can reasonably expect that long-held underlying assumptions of how the world works can still be valid or do not warrant scrutiny.
There are many questions to be asked and answered. Some of those are identified here and addressed below.
