This presentation describes a USA Patent Pending Business Transformation Process that Dave Patrishkoff has created. This process includes Gamification techniques to maximize engagement levels and minimize the barriers that can be encountered when attempting to drive organizational changes.

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by David J Patrishkoff
© Copyright 2013 – E3 Extreme Enterprise Efficiency® LLC
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USA Patent Pending 61,818,032
for Individuals and Organizations
with Max and Coach commentary

2. The 4-Step LPAT Process:
Transforming Ordinary People and Organizations
Into Extraordinary Ones
Hey Coach, Am I Extraordinary ??
Yes you are Max, in many ways but just not in a LPAT
kind of way… However, we can work on that one.
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3. Competitors are highly
Over-Rated
The biggest threats as well as the
biggest enablers to Success are
internal, not external
YOU are the Key to Success
Somebody talking about me Coach ?
Yes Max. Success is not a spectator sport, it
requires the involvement of everyone.
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4. The LPAT Transformation
Process
• The LPAT Process is based on
research that discovered the 5
Chain Reactions and their 54
elements of risk that caused most
human-made disasters in history.
• These 54 elements of risk are
shown on a unique deck of cards
Cards? This looks like a game.
Yes but it’s a serious game… the game of
success or failure in life and business.
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5. 80% of all Work
is Non-Value
Added Activities
This fact gives rise
to great concerns
as well as great
opportunities
Coach, am I in trouble here? Am
I Non-Value Added ??
Relax Max, they are just blaming
bad processes, not the good
people in the bad processes.
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6. I3 Versus E3
The Battle:
Ordinary (I3)
versus
Extraordinary (E3)
Coach, the E3 guys
look outnumbered
by the I3 guys.
Are you sure that
we should be on
the E3 Team ?
E3 fights for high levels of personal and
business productivity, success, job security,
career opportunities, higher income and
company profits. I3 holds people and
organizations back from true greatness.
I3: Internally Implanted Inefficiencies
E3: Extreme Enterprise Efficiency
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7. Introducing the
patented
Process to enable
Mission Impossible
Transformations
For Individuals and Organizations
LPAT… sounds
interesting but how do
you actually create
Great People and Great
Organizations?
People are not born as great leaders or enlightened
professionals but they are born with potential and
character traits that can be coached to maximize
their chances of great success. The LPAT process
accelerates the path to success.
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The Process of
creating
Enlightened &
Empowered People
that can transform
Ordinary Organizations
into
Extraordinary Ones

8. Step #1 of LPAT:
• Learn how to identify the 54
inefficiencies and 5 Chain Reactions
• Learn how to use the cards to create
chain reaction maps on past
disasters
• Learn how to identify threats
Coach, this could get complicated. I
want to exercise my “Call a Smart
Friend” option. I need my buddy Sax
who is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Max, build up your team, study the
cards, play some card games and
further instructions and training will
come later.
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Hi Coach… I’m Sax.
Max asked me to
join his E3 Team.

9. Step #1 of LPAT
cont’d:
• Learn that simple cause
and effect relationships
do not exist in life or
business
• Learn about complicated
set of good and bad chain
reactions
Guys, I can feel the beginning of a
really complicated headache coming on.
Max, Sax is right. The more experience and
successes you get as a problem solver, you
start to appreciate new challenges because you
build more confidence to solve them quickly.
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Max, relax, I think this will
be fun.

10. Step #1 of
LPAT cont’d:
Learn how to
identify the
Chain Reactions
that created
famous historical
Disasters
Sax, this looks complicated. This must
be music to your Black Belt ears. You guys will get this template. Then you have to
determine which cards apply to the disaster you are
analyzing and write your comments below the cards that
apply to the situation under analysis. The result is what
we call a completed “Chain Reaction Map”.
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Never had to identify
chain reactions before
but the cards and
template will help a lot.

11. Step #2 of LPAT:
• Practice how to counteract the 54
inefficiencies embedded in 5 Chain
Reactions
• Practice creating short, mid and
long term actions to eliminate
inefficiencies and diffuse risky
chain reactions
I can play poker but I never played against so
many people before at the same time.
Yeah, you have 54 opponents in this game. These are
the 54 different things that can go wrong in life and
business. You have to practice how you would resolve
such issues if you ever encountered them.
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Wow… the Lean
techniques I learned only
showed us how to deal
with 8 forms of waste
and inefficiency, not 54.

12. Step #2 of LPAT
cont’d:
• Practice undercover to
better understand the 54
inefficiencies
• Practice how to navigate
the risks and dangers that
surround you
Coach, Sax and I are going undercover now to the I3
Dark Side so we can understand how they operate.
Hey guys, what’s with the silly I3 Helmet
and flags ?
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I3
This could be fun.

13. Step #2 of LPAT
cont’d :
Practice how to be the
“Master of Destruction”
ONLY to better understand
how to combat these forces
of destruction later
WHAT ??? Max, you gotta stay focused here. You are
supposed to investigate and BEAT the Dark Side, not
join it. Your assignment is to save your company from
destruction and be the Hero !
Yup, I would make a pretty cool finger-flicking
Overlord-Dude from the I3 Dark Side.
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I3
Destruction is so
much easier than
actually improving
something !

14. Step #2 of LPAT
cont’d :
Practice to Identify
and Address Self-
Inflicted Enterprise-
Wide Inefficiencies
…that are hiding in plain
sight…
Coach, OK, we are back from our undercover gig
and it was disturbing. I3 was destroying the
place in plain site with no resistance in sight. I
got my camouflage outfit on now to protect my
identity as a transformer.
Glad you guys are back in one piece. When an
organization is inefficient, it seems very normal
and OK to them. They might not always be eager
to change.
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E3
Someone blew
our cover !

15. Step #3 of LPAT:
• Assess the presence of risky
inefficiencies and chain reactions
• Assess the severity level of
dangerous chain reactions
Hey, this looks like a
Dominos game.
This is a scary real-life version of Dominos. Real
hopes and dreams can get crushed here by invisible
inefficiencies that this LPAT method makes visible.
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E3
This looks like an
ambush to me Max.

16. Step #3 of
LPAT cont’d:
Assess the
presence of
13 Undisciplined
Leadership Traits,
which can trigger
destructive chain
reactions
Ok Coach, I took off my camo but I think I
still need my helmet to protect me from
these chain reaction attacks.
The helmet is not a bad idea. We are
looking at the “Ground Zero” Triggers of
destructive Chain Reactions. These 13
bad leadership traits can trigger an
avalanche of downstream frustration
and misery.
E3
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I know that Squeaky
Fiscalfrugal Ace...
He’s dangerous!
Domino Wave #1

17. Step #3 of
LPAT cont’d:
Assess the
presence of
11 elements of a
Chaotic and
unproductive Work
Environment
How many waves of attacks do we have
to endure in this simulated game of life
and business ?
There are a total of 5 attack waves. If these
first 2 waves of attacks are successful, it will
take major efforts to repair the downstream
damage they can create.
E3
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5 Waves ? That
makes us one wave
short of a 6-Pack
Attack.
Domino Wave #2

18. Step #3 of LPAT
cont’d:
Assess the presence of
21 Work Habits that
can destroy
Productivity
21 bad work habits to deal with ???
I think I need more body armor.
Most organizations ignore the first 2 waves of threats and
just try to address these bad work habits to improve their
performance. In reality, that’s like addressing the symptoms
and not the true root causes of bad work habits.
E3
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Looks like a 21
gun salute to
Inefficiency?
Domino Wave #3

19. Step #3 of
LPAT cont’d:
Assess the
presence of
7 Major Attacks
on your Key
Efficiency
Metrics
How hard can it be to manage these 7
areas of efficiency performance?
Efficiency Performance cannot be managed directly…
Efficiency is the result of good, bad and absent
decisions and actions. If the threats in the previous 3
waves were not addressed, low efficiency and low
performance are inevitable here.
E3
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Costs are much easier to manage
than these efficiency metrics.
You just have to cut hours, people
or expenses to make costs go
down. To counter these 7 attacks
on efficiency, you actually have to
do a lot of successful Lean and
Six Sigma improvement projects.
Domino Wave #4

20. Step #3 of LPAT cont’d:
Assess the presence of
Final 2 Flaws that can
Sink Your Ship
Is this the last line of defense,
the last chance to save the ship
and the last possible exit on the
Expressway to destruction ??
If every warning signal and threat is ignored from
previous waves, the destructive momentum will
briefly pause here to check if these 2 flaws are
present or not. If they are present, the chain
reactions will continue to level everything in their
path. This could be “Game Over” for many.
E3
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This sounds like
“Slam, Bam the
Joke’s on you Sam”.
Domino Wave #5

21. Step #4 of LPAT:
Transform from the Ordinary to
the Extraordinary by creating
and acting on aggressive but
realistic action plans
Coach, can you really
transform Sax and I and make
us Transformers of others?
The short answer to both of your questions is “Yes”…
BUT it takes the discipline and commitment to be
successful. Additional training and coaching is required
to learn all of the tools and techniques needed to
transform “Ordinary” into “Extraordinary”.
E3
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22. Icebergs are highly over-rated. History tries to
warn us that 54 silent triggers create Chain
Reactions that have created most human-made
Disasters on record. 54 linked inefficiencies sank
the Titanic. The Iceberg that Titanic hit was just in
the path of a reckless race to break an Atlantic
crossing record with a flawed ship design and sub-
standard rivet materials used to construct the
vessel.
Chain Reactions & History:
An Iceberg did NOT Sink
the Titanic
HOLY SMOKES!! I didn’t
know that about the Titanic
and I saw the movie 3 times ?
Some movies are made to entertain
and not to educate. Scientific
books like “What Really Sank the
Titanic” tell the real story.
E3
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I’m betting that the
Squeaky Fiscalfrugal
Ace had something
to do with this
sinking.

23. Chain Reactions &
History:
The Titanic Chain
Reactions
The Titanic sinking was a
“Perfect Storm” of silently
Interacting chain reactions that
collectively had the power to
sink the ship
Take cover !!… incoming Chain Reactions !
Yeah, this deadly trio cost a lot
of innocent lives.
E3
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Looks like “Three
strikes and you’re
out” to me.

24. Image courtesy of NASA
Rocket booster o-rings are highly overrated.
These 13 risky leadership practices identified
in our deck of cards crashed the Challenger.
The Rogers Commission, appointed by
President Reagan, blamed NASA's flawed
organizational culture and decision-making
processes for the accident.
Chain Reactions & History:
A faulty O-Ring did NOT crash the
Challenger Space Shuttle
That’s a very sad story. Yes and it is a case where Domino
Wave #1 & 2 threats were ignored,
which again cost innocent lives.
E3
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I’m betting again
that the Squeaky
Fiscalfrugal touched
this disaster too.

25. Image courtesy of NASA
Spacecraft Thermal Protection Systems are
highly overrated. They cannot protect the crew
from risky leadership practices identified in our
deck of cards. The Roger’s Commission found
that NASA had many organizational flaws that
led to the disaster and that they had improved
little since the Challenger disaster, 17 years
earlier.
Chain Reactions & History:
Damaged Tiles did NOT crash the
Columbia Space Shuttle
Coach, How could NASA have
made such mistakes?
Sometimes people are very good at
doing the really hard stuff and
very bad at doing the simpler
stuff.
E3
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I just changed my
mind about wanting
to be an astronaut.

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Learn the Patent Pending Process that enables
Personal and Organizational Transformations
USA Patent Pending 61,818,032
Can you really patent
this methodology ?
Yes this is patentable, as long as it’s truly unique
and never been done before. Edutainment is a big
part of the LPAT method, which includes a little
fun with business improvement techniques.
E3
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27. • Visit our website www.BTWarGames.com to purchase the Deck of
Cards
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programs
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Thanks for joining me Sax and thank you
Coach for the overview ! What’s next ?
Get a set of these cards at
BTWarGames.com,
start studying them and get
ready for some serious E3
Transformer training after that.
E3
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I’m in for the E3 long
haul with you Max.
This could be fun !