Prepare your business and life for the biggest 3 disruptors the world has ever known.

1. @nickjankel
THE 3 BIGGEST DISRUPTORS TO
BUSINESS & LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
Royal Bank of Scotland, Jan 2014
www.wecreateworldwide.com

2. We are...
A boutique innovation, strategy & design agency solving
problems that matter through amplifying leadership
breakthroughs
We are also...
A bespoke leadership development consultancy focused
on helping teams and individuals have breakthrough
innovations that create a brilliant world

3. Some of our clients

4. Our services
Sustainable & purposeful innovation
Leadership development
Storytelling for leaders
Purpose definition
Executive & peer coaching
Sustainable innovation coaching & training
Coaching & empowerment training
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Learning & development program & toolkit design
Leadership & empowerment evaluation & metrics
Culture design & micro-interventions

5. Our leadership & empowerment curriculum
Me
Self- Mastery
My team
Leadership
Storytelling
My enterprise
My world
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Change,
Leadership
Leading Innovation
Complexity &
Ethical Influencing
Purpose
Crisis
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Activating
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Networks
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The Enterprise
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Systems
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Transformation
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Business Models
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Mentoring
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& Integrity

6. In-company empowerment,
happiness & wellbeing
programmes for the digital
generations
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7. “My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved
it. But it was filmless photography, so management’s reaction
was, ‘that’s cute — but don’t tell anyone about it.”
Steven Sasson

8. $$$
$$$$$$$$$$
SPENT by kodak (& MUBARAK) to stay at
the top
imagine the number of MBAs,
consultants, processes...
Why did they fail?

9. Ch-ch-ch-chchanges
Turn and face
the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man

10. ADAPT OR
FAIL
law of
requisite
variety

11. #1
understanding of how our
world works (or not) is
changing

12. GROWTH
is good...
for 2 billion people
as long as we don’t count depression,
obesity, heart disease, extreme climate
change etc. etc.

13. if everyone lived like us, we’d need 5+
planets to provide enough resources
Source: Scientific American

14. TRICKLING...?
Nigeria: 56% to 61% with 6% GDP growth in
last 10 years
india: 1/5 to 1/3 in extreme poverty with
9% GDP growth
US: 156% rise in extreme poverty in kids in
us from ‘96-’11
Source: BBC, Harvard University

15. BUSINESS
is the most creative & effective eNGINE
TO solve major problems
more trusted by government: 58% vs. 47%
Source: Edelman Survey

16. PURPOSE
beyond profit
that underpins every investment decision
delivers ‘blended returns’

17. Definition
purpose: bridge between our
genius & the world’s troubles

18. PURPOSE
protects against aging, Alzheimer’s &
business failure
top 3 focus of ceos today
Source: Dana Foundation, IBM Global CEO Study 2012

19. “Entrepreneurs who are
committed to a mission
beyond profits are more
likely to succeed.”
Tarang Shah
Venture Capitalists At Work: How
VCs Identify and Build Billion Dollar
Successes

20. GEN Y
78% look at ethics & values before
deciding which company to work for
Source: Cone Communications Survey

22. changing the
way we
operate
drives
massive
growth
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, 2013

23. even when
driven by
sustainability
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review, 2013

24. #2
understanding of how we
interact & organise is
changing

25. HIERARCHIES
ARE FAILING

26. 70% of global internet users on facebook
youtube reaches more millenials than TV

27. "There will not be any hegemonic power.
Power will shift to networks and coalitions
in a multi-polar world.”
National Intelligence Council
Global Trends Report 2013

28. NETS WORK
Diverse teams more innovative than
groups of similar genii
entrepreneurs with diverse networks 3
x innovative than those without
extent of openeness in our networks
predicts career success
Sources: Martin Ruef, Princeton; The New England Journal of Medicine; University of Chicago

29. TRIBES
HUNTERGATHERERS
MARKETS
HIERARCHIES /
BUREAUCRACIES
NETWORKS

30. NETWORKED BUSINESS
airbnb: 10 millions guests in 5 years
without owning a single hotel brick
zappos: 75% repeat customers, running
as holarchy
zipcar: NOW @ AVIS

32. GIVE TO GET
secret to success (& our first
instincts anyway)
blockbuster toys over 50 years not
focused on competition
collaboration key to evolutionary
fitness
Sources: Overmar & Jeffery; Scientific American; Adam Grant, Wharton

33. #3
understanding of the stories
we can & must tell is changing

34. STORIES
govern our understanding of the
world, ourselves and our business
we learn over 70% of our knowledge
through stories

36. “Whoever tells the best
story wins.”
John Quincy Adams

37. STORIES
OPEN UP SPACE FOR INNOVATION & GIVE
PERMISSION FOR BREAKTHROUGH
we buy into stories, not specs,
creativity not code

38. If breakthrough innovation was easy,
everyone would be doing it... and they
are not.
Why?

39. Bmusic

40. Cubism

41. ASSUMPTIONS
mother of all $%^# Ups

42. “Failures [are] caused by... flawed
executive mindsets that throw off a
company’s perception of reality [and]
delusional attitudes that keep this
inaccurate reality in place”
Sydney Finkelstein, Why Smart Executives Fail

43. “People massively value having
their photos printed.”

44. people do
not let go of
assumptions
easily!
people do not change ways of being /
Not rational,
beliefs / behaviours easily!
selfinterested
maximisers...

45. IRRATIONAL
beliefs driven by
emotions
EMOTIONS DRIVE
SOCIAL CONTAGION
Sources: Antonio D’Amasio, Baba Shiv,
Andrew Newberg, Jonathan Haidt, Fast
Company

46. RIGID
less neural plasticity as age
system favours
predictability over
creativity
reliance on old patterns
Source: Scientific American

47. Innovation
THE BREAKTHROUGH ENGINE
Use the space to write your answers
6
PURPOSE What is your/org purpose? Why do you exist?
6. Breakthrough vision
What vision do you have of
the impact of this proposition?
1. problem What is the problem, in human terms?
1
5
5. Breakthrough
proposition
What ideas or concepts to
solve the problem emerge
from this insight?
2
2. Proposition
What is the current
proposition that results
in this problem?
3
break
through
4
4. Breakthrough
Insight
What are more insightful,
future-positive beliefs?
3. Assumptions
What do we have to
believe to generate and
validate this
proposition?
© 2013 WECREATE WORLDWIDE LTD
breakthrough for a brilliant world
wecreateworldwide.com

48. “People massively value having
their photos printed.”
“People like to share, exchange and remix photos
as a way of having amazing relationships.”

49. BE
BE
right
breakthrough
ASSUMPTIONS
INSIGHTS
out-dated ideas & future-positive business
limiting models
models

50. #1
AGE OF ContributION: GIVE to the
world with purpose so we can
all thrive
#2
AGE OF CONNECTION: JOIN UP THE
DOTS TO FORGE COLLABORATIONS &
RELATIONSHIPS
#3
AGE OF creativity: WEAVE new
narratives that open up
breakthroughs & POSSIBILITIES

51. Breakthrough
nike +
#1
HY
CONTRIBUTE: TO FITNESS,
WELLBEING & POSITIVITY
division is motivating people
rough their Nike+ products
#2
CONSUMER VALUE
and services invites digital
aining experience.
hone app, iPod, SportWatch
ce measures users’ movements
uel points.
NikeFuel points online and
ts.
#3
nt – Fast Company voted Nike
nnovative Company 2013.
+ has created a new market of
ducts and services.
Nike+ plugs into different
ies, like Running and
rive penetration.
ike+ developed
.
CONNECT: PEOPLE WITH
THEIR PEERS & THEMSELVES
FUNCTIONAL
The Nike+ range gives users feedback on their
performance.
EMOTIONAL
Capturing and feeding back user data taps into
the desire for self-improvement.
SOCIAL
The Nike+ community and connectivity turns
activity data into social currency.
CREATE: A NEW BRAND
RESULTS
STORY & NEW POSSIBILITIES
FOR USER TO THRIVE
— Analysts say Nike+ membership growth was important in
driving sales in its running division by up to 30% to
$2.8 billion between 2011-2012. Source
— Nike+ FuelBand reportedly sold out within four hours of
launch. Source
© 2013 WECREATE WORLDWIDE LTD
– Nike developed new
NIKE+ MEMBERSHIP
INCREASES SALES IN
RUNNING DIVISION
BY C.30% TO
$2.8 BILLION
BETWEEN 2011-2012
breakthrough for a brilliant world
wecreateworldwide.com

52. Definition
thrivability: the capacity to
grow vigorously by
accelerating contribution,
connectedness & creativity

53. NICK JANKEL
TH
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THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT CREATIVITY
AND HOW TO BREAK THROUGH ANYTHING
OUT IN MAY 2014

54. You never change things by fighting the
existing reality. To change something,
build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete.’
R. Buckminster Fuller
Question us.
Challenge us.
Have breakthroughs with us.
nick@wecreateworldwide.com
nick@ripeandready.com