Creating the future, Leaders as Emanators and Illuminators

1. Creating the future:
Leaders as Emanators and Illuminators
Professor Gilly Salmon
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
(Education Innovation)
Gillysalmon.com
Perth
February 2016

2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv_cC243vQ
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Futures Observatory in action

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Does it Work?
Carpe Diem studio in action
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8. Melinda Gates
“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone
gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction.
Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less
fortunate person, just as you were helped.”
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10. Being a feminine leader…the Salmon version!
• Vision
• Open Communication
• Empathy and emotional intelligence
• Team Building-ness
• Persuasiveness
• Humility
• Ability and willingness to Learn
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11. When life gives you lemons…
Ask for more.
Get started.
Become a lemon advocate.
Sell lemons at a lower price than the
market.
Collaborate and co-operate with worldwide
lemon traders.
Build a company which sells lemons.
Become an international lemon selling
brand.
Keep asking for more lemons.
Distribute them to others.
Invest in Higher Education.
Start the Lemon University.
Make lemonade
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12. “Never doubt the power of a small group of
people to change the world. Nothing else
ever has”.
Margaret Mead
Thanks for listening
“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead
troublemakers.“
Mignon McLaughlin
No budgets or humans were harmed in the making of this presentation
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“If you don’t like change,
you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
Eric Shinsek
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13. Sources & References
Collective intelligence: Number of women in group linked to effectiveness in solving difficult problems
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100930143339.htm
Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alexander Pentland, Nada Hashmi, and Thomas W. Malone. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor
in the Performance of Human Groups. Science, September 30, 2010 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193147
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100930143339.htm
hbr.org/2013/08/research-male-leaders-should-think-more-like-women
www.inc.com/magazine/201306/leigh-buchanan/what-leaders-need-to-know.html
www.linkedin.com/pulse/feminine-leadership-isnt-just-women-amel-murphy-msc-mcipd
www.huffingtonpost.com/advertising-week/just-dance-embracing-dive_b_8961580.html. The Huffington post- led by a highly innovative women.
www.huffingtonpost.com/caroline-dowdhiggins/why-organizations-thrive-with-feminine-leadership_b_5442231.html Ketchum interpreted
http://rfkcenter.org/what-we-do/speak-truth-power/ Speak truth to power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Prior%27s_Award ‘Grand Prior’s award’ from St John Ambulance.
Duke of Edinburgh Award http://www.dofe.org/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtiybw6LYls Jobs that have gone, jobs that will go, jobs that we should be educating our future
students for. …see from around 20 minutes into the talk.
www.ceda.com.au/research-and-policy/policy-priorities/workforce
great report on jobs in the future in Australia www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-variations-of-the-when-life-gives-you-lemons-quote
http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2012/05/mothers-technology-10-women-who-invented-and-innovated-tech
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