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Bank Execs Stacked Supermarket Shelves For Perspective
- Snowden describes placing bank execs in supermarkets and supermarket staff training bank tellers to force perspective shifts without mandated reflection.
- The experiential swap created irreversible viewpoint changes that led to different behaviours without needing confessional debriefs.
Preserve Good Practice While Fixing The Theory
- Many useful coaching methods work despite flawed theory behind them; improving the underlying science lets you scale and adapt them.
- Snowden compares pre-Newton intuition about gravity to coaching methods: keep what works but refine why it works.
Use Shared Dirty Work To Build Trust Not Facilitated Confession
- Do design experiential, messy group activities that create shared narratives rather than forcing articulated reflections.
- Snowden's team retreats (climbing, horse riding, canoeing) produced stories and trust that translated into workplace behavior without structured facilitation.