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23. “If I had not been in prison I would not
have been able to achieve the most
difficult task in life, and that is changing
yourself... Prison itself is a tremendous
education in the need for patience and
perseverance. It is above all a test of
one's commitment.”
NELSON MANDELA
24. ‘Switched on’ leaders are
delusional or visionary.
Either way, they see
things no-one else can
see and act on it with
conviction to change
things for good.
25. LEADERSHIP?
OUR SELF, OUR PEERS, OUR ORGS, THE
SYSTEM
INTO, THROUGH AND OUT OF CHANGE /
CHAOS
SUCH THAT EVERYONE THRIVES
26. EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE
WORLD, BUT NO ONE THINKS OF
CHANGING HIMSELF.
LEO TOLSTOY
40. YOU TAKE THE BLUE PILL, THE STORY ENDS,
YOU WAKE UP IN YOUR BED AND BELIEVE
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BELIEVE. YOU
TAKE THE RED PILL, YOU STAY IN
WONDERLAND, AND I SHOW YOU HOW
DEEP THE RABBIT HOLE GOES.
MORPHEUS
45. FERTILE
MEDICI FLORENCE vs. PAPAL ROME
DEMOCRATIC ENGLAND VS. TSARIST RUSSIA
SILICON VALLEY vs. SAUDI ARABIA
INNOCENTIVE vs. OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLASSICS
DEPT.
69. WHY
DO MOST OF US FIND CHANGE, CHAOS &
INNOVATION SO CHALLENGING?
70. “Chaos’ is a frightening word, but you will have
to get used to it if you desire or hold leadership
positions in today’s organizations... stability is
no longer the prevalent condition of our age. All
that seems simple and comforting is certain to
give way to complex and nerve-wracking
substitutes... It won’t be easy. Decades of
deeply ingrained procedures, traditions,
attitudes, and cultural biases about managing
change must be jettisoned. In their place, new
perspectives and frameworks must be
embraced.”
DARYL R. CONNOR, LEADING AT THE EDGE OF
CHAOS
80. SURVIVAL LEADERSHIP
Closed hand
Fist / palm off
OFF
REACT
=
Closed mind = RETREAT
OFF Assume solutions REPEAT
Closed heart
Fearful / judgmental
OFF
81. “Nothing will stop you
being creative so effectively
as the fear of making a
mistake.”
JOHN CLEESE
98. ADAPTED CYNEFIN MODEL
Complex (Chaos) Complicated (Order)
Known causes and effects
Understandable root causes Use good practice
Use emergent practice (harness principles) Focus on co-operation
Focus on collaboration
SENSE. EXPLORE. RESPOND SENSE. ANALYZE. RESPOND
Disorder
Chaotic (Chamos) Simple (Control)
Predictable causes and effects
Unknowable causes / effects
Use best-practice
Use new practice
Focus on co-ordination
Focus on co-creation
EXPLORE. SENSE. RESPOND SENSE. CATEGORIZE. RESPOND
104. “The key to success is figuring
out where is the edge? And how
do I stay the right distance from
the edge?”
RAY DALIO, FOUNDER, BRIDGEWATER (LARGEST
AND MOST SUCCESSFUL HEDGE FUND IN THE
WORLD)
107. “I have not failed 700 times. I have
not failed once. I have succeeded in
proving that those 700 ways will not
work. When I have eliminated the
ways that will not work, I will find the
way that will work.”
THOMAS EDISON, NEW YORK TIMES 1847
108. SHARE A PAINFUL TIME YOU FAILED AND
THE EXPERIENCE OF IT
WHAT DID YOU LEARN SUCCESSFULLY?
109. COACHING
IS KEY TO LEARNING (FROM EACH FALL) AND
AVOIDING FALLS OTHERS HAVE LEARNT FROM
STAYING OPEN / COACHABLE
110. “Come to the edge, he said. They
said: We are afraid. Come to the
edge, he said. They came. He
pushed them and they flew. “
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
115. WHERE ARE YOUR WEAKNESSES?
WHAT ARE SPECIFIC THINGS YOU CAN DO
TO MITIGATE AGAINST THEM?
116. Change is the fuel for all
creative leadership.
The edge of chaos is the
best (only?) place we
can truly thrive.
Together, everything is
possible.
117. “The important thing is
this: to be able at any
moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we
could become.”
CHARLES DUBOIS
126. CHALLENGE
1. ATTRACT ENOUGH SUPPORT BEFORE THE
TIME YOU CHOOSE (FEEL FORCED) TO QUIT
2. MAKE SENSE OF YOUR JOURNEY &
YOURSELF SO THAT OTHERS CAN TOO
127. 5 MINUTES TO TELL SOMEONE YOUR
PROJECT / IDEA / PASSION SO THAT THEY
WANT TO GET INVOLVED
138. “When you’re conversing with
coworkers, customers, or
investors, the richness and
meaning of your story is what
people really buy. Everybody
thinks it’s the return on investment
that you’re selling...but it’s really
the story about ROI that an
investor takes away.”
TOM DUREL FORMER CIO/SVP, BLUE CROSS BLUE
SHIELD, FORMER CEO, OCEANIA
139. STORY
IS THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM OF IMPACT
FOR ALL LEADERS & CHANGE-AGENTS
151. “We have this thing over here,
in the left side, that we've
called the interpreter.... that
makes sense out of these
modules that are constantly
bombarding us with
information, with actual
behaviors, with felt states,
with everything. We've got to
tell a story about what's going
on.”
MICHAEL GAZZANIGA
158. “The problem of how to make all this
wisdom understandable, transmissible,
persuasive, enforceable - in a word, of
how to make it stick - was faced and a
solution found. Storytelling was the
solution - storytelling is something
brains do, naturally and implicitly. . . it
should be no surprise that it pervades
the entire fabric of human societies and
cultures.”
ANTONIO DAMASIO
162. “Human minds yield
helplessly to the suction of
story. No matter how hard we
concentrate, no matter how
deep we dig in our heels, we
just can’t resist the gravity of
alternate worlds.”
JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL
163.
164. “It is easy to forget how
mysterious and mighty stories
are. They do their work in
silence, invisibility. They work
with all the internal materials
of the mind and self. They
become part of you while
changing you... they are
altering your world.”
BEN OKRI
166. “And God said: Let man
have dominion of the fish
of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air. and over
the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every
creeping thing that
creepeth over the earth.”
GENESIS 1, 26
193. “A good story, well told,
makes you realise you were
yearning for something you
had no name for, something
you didn’t even know you
wanted.”
F.S. MICHAELS
201. HE
WAS ILL FOR A LONG TIME, IN CONSTANT
AGONY AND WANTED IT TO END. HE
APPEALED TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF
HUMAN RIGHTS TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE
EUTHANASIA & THEN HE DIED
231. “When anyone asks me how I can best
describe my experience in nearly forty
years at sea, I merely say, uneventful... in all
my experience, I have never been in any
accident... or any sort worth speaking
about. I have seen but one vessel in
distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a
wreck and never have been wrecked nor
was I ever in any predicament that
threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”
E. J. SMITH
CAPTAIN, RMS TITANIC IN 1907
238. “Sudden bursts of insight — the Aha!
or Eureka! moment — come when
brain activity abruptly shifts its focus.
The almost ecstatic sense that makes
us cry "I see!" appears to come when
the brain is able to shunt aside
immediate or familiar visual inputs.”
MARK JUNG-BEEMAN'S LAB, NORTHWESTERN,
EDGE.ORG
239. “It turns out that the ability to
stop oneself from thinking
something is central to creativity.”
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
240. GREAT TRUTH
INNOVATION IS ABOUT LETTING GO OF THE
OLD WAYS (IDEAS, ASSUMPTIONS,
BEHAVIOURS) THAT BLOCK INNATE
CREATIVITY & COLLABORATION
271. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
273. “However, if you are on a moral crusade, you
will destroy everything in your wake. And who
can deny that the history of the 20th century
bears out this view, with Nazi and Communist
ideologies causing such havoc? After all, Hitler
was an idealist, too. So Confucius — who was
not, admittedly, part of the Zen tradition,
though he influenced it — puts the greatest
value not on absolute good, but on ‘human-
heartedness’, or jen. If you are human-hearted,
you are unlikely to want to do any great ill, even
without a great moral vision to guide you.”
TIM LOTT
274. “The fundamental nature of the world is not
something you can get too precise about. The
basis of one’s life and thought must always
remain undefined. Some ideas — such as the
Tao, the ‘way of things’ — come to us, we can’t
just go out and get them. They are mysterious
and unknown.
This kind of thinking is anathema to the modern
scientist who thinks that everything can be
known and finally will be known. But [Alan]
Watts argued, it is impossible to appreciate the
universe unless you know when to stop
investigating. Truth is not to be found by
picking everything to pieces like a spoilt child.”
TIM LOTT
284. “If you’re going to have
a story, have a big story,
or none at all.”
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
285. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CREATE WITH
YOUR BOON?
WHY?
286. “Those who do not have
power over their story —
the power to retell it,
rethink it, deconstruct it,
joke about it, and change it
as times change -
truly are powerless, because
they cannot think new
thoughts.”
SALMAN RUSHDIE
287.
288. “What I think is that a good life is
one hero journey after another. Over
and over again, you are called to the
realm of adventure, you are called to
new horizons. Each time, there is the
same problem: do I dare? And then
if you do dare, the dangers are
there, and the help also, and the
fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s
always the possibility of fiasco.
But there’s also the possibility of
bliss.”
Joseph Campbell
289. ARCHETYPE TASK TRANSFORMATION
SURVIVE
ORPHAN FROM VICTIM...
DIFFICULTY
WANDERER FIND YOURSELF FROM SAMENESS...
PROVE YOUR FROM LOW
WARRIOR
WORTH ESTEEM...
SHOW FROM
ALTRUIST
GENEROSITY SELFISHNESS...
ACHIEVE
INNOCENT FROM PUSH...
FLOURISHING
TRANSFORM THE
MAGICIAN FROM ME...
WORLD
290. WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR JOURNEY TO BE
LIKE IN THE NEXT 8 MONTHS?
WHY?
297. “Be patient toward
everything unresolved in
your heart and try to
love the questions
themselves... the point is
to live everything... live
the questions now.”
RAINER MARIA RILKE
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