I think that a key difference working and teaching in different companies, different cultures and different countries is in the beliefs people have about the nature of truth and in groups there is a tendency for people to agree, formally or informally, on what the nature of truth is.
When working with an open process of creative thinking like Synectics it is a fairly clear understanding that for the dureation of the process there are only personal truths, what is true for one person is not true for another.

Working to find solutions to things more technical opens up a range of options for people to adopt concerning the nature of truth, from continuing with a full, everyone has their own truth, to there is only one final truth, reality itself.

Some problems posed have very open solutions, for example, the best way to market climate change, there is not, perhaps , one truth. But if you are finding solutions to an engineering problem with an existing device then some would suggest they are looking for the one best solution and there will be no better solution than that.

Educators for all curriculum areas are composed of the complete range of truth sayers, those who totally believe there is only one best method through to those who are in the horses for courses frame, or even there are many ways to skin a cat frame.

My experience has been that a company culture can be as conditioning as any ethnicity and that if you want to belong in certain company cultures then you have to adopt the company view on truth, which I guess includes "we are the best in the world" even when that is plainly false!

I would suggest that companies adopt different trainers sometimes because those trainers match the company belief in tha nature of truth itself.
All views welcome.

Graham

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