19. Personal experience of change
Select one area of focus to use as a process point throughout the presentation.
Think about an experience of change that you advocated for or participated
in--a change in...
● work structure (staffing change; team change)
● work position (partner engagement manager; division liaison)
● work location (change of office or workplace; being “remote”)
● partner support (coaching model; certification process)
● technology (Surfaces; Sharepoint)
● work process (EAM, design & development, project
management)
● your personal life
20. 10. How am I feeling about change?
We cannot change what we are not
aware of, and once we are aware,
we cannot help but change.
Sheryl Sandberg
Author Lean In
COO Facebook
21. 10. How am I feeling about change?
Accept what’s natural.
Do what’s desirable.
“It’s natural to want that, but
what choice would be most
consistent with my goals &
the person I aspire to be?”
24. 9. What are my needs underlying my feelings?
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis,
and expression of anger is the tragic
expression of an unmet need.
Marshall Rosenberg
Founder Non Violent
Communication
26. 9. What are my needs underlying my feelings?
AUTONOMY
choice
freedom
independence
space
spontaneity
CONNECTION
acceptance
affection
appreciation
belonging
cooperation
communication
closeness
community
companionship
compassion
consideration
consistency
empathy
inclusion
love
mutuality
nurturing
respect
self-respect
safety
security
stability
support
to know/be known
to see/be seen
to understand/
be understood
trust
warmth
HONESTY
authenticity
integrity
presence
PEACE
beauty
communion
ease
equality
harmony
inspiration
order
MEANING
awareness
challenge
clarity
competence
consciousness
contribution
creativity
discovery
efficacy
effectiveness
growth
hope
learning
mourning
participation
purpose
self-expression
stimulation
to matter
understanding
PLAY
joy
humor
27. Reflection: Feelings and Needs
Quickwrite: Thinking about the example of change you selected, what were you
feeling about that change and what needs were underlying that feeling?
28. 8. Where is the puck going?
Lots of companies don’t succeed
over time. What do they do
fundamentally wrong?
They usually miss the future.
Larry Page
Founder, Google
CEO, Alphabet
29. 8. Where is the puck going?
PASSENGER
DRIVER
CASUALT
Y
31. 7. What is my biggest hazard (fear)?
Success breeds complacency.
Complacency breeds failure.
Only the paranoid survive.
Andy Grove
Former CEO, Intel
33. Picasso had a saying -
‘good artists copy, great artists steal’
- we have always been shameless
about stealing great ideas.
6. What is my biggest opportunity?
Steve Jobs
Founder & CEO Apple
34. Reflection: Puck, Hazard, Opportunity
Quickwrite: How was your change fueled by the concept of skating to where the
puck was going, avoiding a hazard, or taking advantage of an opportunity?
35. 5. How can i get smarter about [ ]?
I think most people can learn a lot
more than they think they can.
Elon Musk
Founder & CEO Tesla
36. 5. How can i get smarter about [ ]?
BACKPACKER - Unencumbered, open to new possibilities, ready
to explore new terrain, not stuck in yesterday's best practices.
HUNTER/GATHERER - Seek out experts, return with ideas and
resources to address challenges.
FIREWALKER - Lacking situational confidence, take small,
calculated steps, move fast and seek feedback to stay on track.
PIONEER - Keep things simple, focus on meeting core needs,
improvise and work tirelessly while pushing boundaries.
ROOKIE SMARTS
37. 4. What do I need to put in the rear view mirror?
There’s a finite market for DVD-
by-mail, the growth over the next
10 years will be in streaming.
Reed Hastings
CEO Netflix
38. Reflection: Rookie Smarts and Rear View Mirror
Quickwrite: While navigating your change, what opportunities did you have to
learn like a “rookie” and what did you choose to put into your rear view mirror?
39. 3. What experiences/people have shaped me?
When strongly disagreeing with
another … it can be constructive to
take a minute to understand … what
in their background has led them to
take that position.
Jeff Wiener
CEO LinkedIn
40. 3. What experiences/people have shaped me?
Intellectual
Rational
Interpreted
Experiences
Sociology of
Knowledge
41. 2. What would it take to change my beliefs?
People who are right most of the
time are people who change their
minds often
Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO Amazon.com
42. 2. What would it take to change my beliefs?
What
Compelling vision
Proof of concept
Testimonial
Market validation
Mass market acceptance
Where
My mind
Personal experience
Peers
Competition/Customers
Everywhere
44. “Life is struggle.” I believe that within
that quote lies the most important
lesson in entrepreneurship:
Embrace the struggle.
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby.
I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
1. What do we need to confront?
Ben Horowitz
Investor in Facebook,
Pinterest, Twitter, Skype
45. Reflection: Shaped Beliefs, Change Beliefs, Confront
Quickwrite: How did your beliefs help or hinder you in navigating your change,
and did you choose to examine or change any of your beliefs? What or who did
you have to confront?
46. Final Thoughts ...
The biggest risk is not taking any
risk.
In a world that’s changing really
quickly, the only strategy that is
guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder & CEO, Facebook
Despite having three children, I am not particularly well qualified to talk about parenting, at least according to my mother. I counter that in addition to my 12 years of experience being a parent I have 46 years of experience being treated like a child. Haha the more I tell that joke, the lower my therapy bills are.
The theme for your staff meeting this year is about managing through change. It’s a tough challenge that applies to every leader in the world whether in business, government or even your family.
I don’t know if there is another region in the world that thinks about how to deal with change more than Silicon Valley. But the good news is that Silicon Valley is not just a location, it’s a mindset. Today, I’m hopeful that I can both encourage and advise you on how to develop a Silicon Valley mindset that embraces change and makes the most of it.
While we might think that this idea of constant change is a modern one, in fact, humankind has been feeling this way for milennia…. Quote from Heraclitus 6th century BC.
What is new, however is the rate of change, f of x, is moving towards what feels like infinity.
1910
1930s
1950s
2007
Uber in 2012
VIP Kids
So instead of talking to you like the unqualified expert I thot I would share some of the questions I have pondered and some stories as a Fellow sojourner on the edge of civilization, together we cross primal rubicons of technology usage. Guided by nothing more than reason, intuition and good intentions. Let’s cut ourselves some slack.
Personal experience of change - Ethos
shita-kitae
Way of thinking, how to process
Hazard vs. Opportunity
Self Identification - Validation
Are you feeling trepidation vs excitement.
Are you guiding vs. following as the iceberg is melting
Way of thinking, how to process
Hazard vs. Opportunity
Self Identification - Validation
Are you feeling trepidation vs excitement.
Are you guiding vs. following as the iceberg is melting
Way of thinking, how to process
Hazard vs. Opportunity
Self Identification - Validation
Are you feeling trepidation vs excitement.
Are you guiding vs. following as the iceberg is melting
Way of thinking, how to process
Hazard vs. Opportunity
Universality of needs
What need is being threatened by change
People don’t resist change, they resist pain
Universality of needs
What need is being threatened by change
People don’t resist change, they resist pain
Embrace the inevitable
Funner to shape the inevitable than fight it our get run over by it
Simply Hired - job search opp vs job boards MWW market cap.
Yahoo to Direct to Google to social meda.
Blueberry vs. Sabre Tooth - Flashbulb
Appreciative inquiry - frame as problem or frame as opportunity
Embrace the inevitable
Funner to shape the inevitable than fight it our get run over by it
Simply Hired - job search opp vs job boards MWW market cap.
Yahoo to Direct to Google to social meda.
Blueberry vs. Sabre Tooth - Flashbulb
Appreciative inquiry - frame as problem or frame as opportunity
We are all driven by hazard and opportunity
Are you holding on?
Yahoo search - your strength can be a weakness
Janet Reno - live in fear diminish my life
We are all driven by hazard and opportunity
Stretch yourself. What am I afraid of?
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
“Observing is the big game changer in our company.” - Scott Cook
Blockbuster quote - Neither RedBox nor Netflix are even on the radar screen in terms of competition
We are all driven by hazard and opportunity
Are you holding on?
Yahoo search - your strength can be a weakness
Janet Reno - live in fear diminish my life
We are all driven by hazard and opportunity
Stretch yourself. What am I afraid of?
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Blockbuster quote - Neither RedBox nor Netflix are even on the radar screen in terms of competition
Actually, you don’t often have to be in the prediction game, you have to be in the observation game.
“Observing is the big game changer in our company.” - Scott Cook
What is the big opportunity? Finding personal motivation for change - Hazard vs. Opportunity - Resent, Resist, Regret vs. Embrace
It’s funner to be opportunity oriented
Eric Schmidt concerned about teenager as a competitor to Google
Mark Zuckerberg was teenager at the time.
What is the big opportunity? Finding personal motivation for change - Hazard vs. Opportunity - Resent, Resist, Regret vs. Embrace
It’s funner to be opportunity oriented
Eric Schmidt concerned about teenager as a competitor to Google
Mark Zuckerberg was teenager at the time.
Silicon Valley enough of an outsider
Netflix - Reed Hasting DVD
Troy Pullman - Apple II Product Manager
Change mentality - churn up the road
What is the big opportunity? Finding personal motivation for change - Hazard vs. Opportunity - Resent, Resist, Regret vs. Embrace
It’s funner to be opportunity oriented
Eric Schmidt concerned about teenager as a competitor to Google
Mark Zuckerberg was teenager at the time.
High self awareness
Yahoo’s success with big advertisers vs. google 1,000,000
“Without computer clubs there would probably be no Apple computers.” - Stephen WozniakJobs/Wozniak, Yang/Filo, Page/Brin
Enough of an outsider
NVC Universality of needs Hard to change from inside
Megyn Kelly - “Here’s to using our most generous lens” White Hat/Black Hat
“When strongly disagreeing with another, most of us have a tendency to see things solely through our own world view.”
Visionary, Proof of Concept - Early Adopter, Market Validation Seeing is believing - Doubting Thomas
Crossing the Chasm
“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.” ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly EverythingStigler's law of eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler's law of eponymy". It states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
AirBnB
Visionary, Proof of Concept - Early Adopter, Market Validation Seeing is believing - Doubting Thomas
Crossing the Chasm
“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.” ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly EverythingStigler's law of eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler's law of eponymy". It states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
AirBnB
Visionary, Proof of Concept - Early Adopter, Market Validation Seeing is believing - Doubting Thomas
Crossing the Chasm
“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.” ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly EverythingStigler's law of eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler's law of eponymy". It states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
Courageous Conversations - when you are feeling there is a disconnect, when you are feeling unsettled, use dialog to move you
But after the meeting, Scott’s boss, Sheryl Sandberg, suggested they take a walk together. She talked about the things she’d liked about the presentation and how impressed she was with the success the team was having—yet Scott could feel a "but" coming. "Finally she said, ‘But you said um a lot.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, no big deal. I know, I do that. But who cared if I said um when I had the tiger by the tail?’"
Sandberg pushed forward, asking whether Scott’s ums were the result of nervousness. She even suggested that Google could hire a speaking coach to help. Still, Scott brushed off the concern; it didn’t seem like an important issue. "Finally, Sheryl said, ‘You know, Kim, I can tell I'm not really getting through to you. I'm going to have to be clearer here. When you say um every third word, it makes you sound stupid.’"
What is the big opportunity? Finding personal motivation for change - Hazard vs. Opportunity - Resent, Resist, Regret vs. Embrace
It’s funner to be opportunity oriented
Eric Schmidt concerned about teenager as a competitor to Google
Mark Zuckerberg was teenager at the time.
Core of SV Mindset
Martin Seligman, Chris Petersen
Ready Fire Aim,, Firewalking, Pivot, Playing Chess, Board Games, New Information