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Do You See Constellations Where Others See Stars – The Kaleidoscoping Art
Excerpt from the Fourth Emerald Key: Radical growth – the Learn-ability leverage Kaleidoscoping is the practice and capacity to recognize relationships and patterns. You practice active inquiry that seeks to understand the core principles that are the basis of all systems. Kaleidoscoping is the ability to compare and correlate seemingly unrelated fields and apply concepts from one to the other. For example, using the terminology...
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Why I Disagree With Marshal Goldsmith
I agree with 93% of what Marshal Goldsmith tells us in his “Advice for the young that transcends age” in BusinessWeek. I agree that in an era of uncertainty, we all need to think like entrepreneurs. Second I agree that it is tough out there, and it’s only going to get tougher. Third I agree that you better forget about security. And fourth I agree...
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The Three Decision Points
Every important decision has to be made three times. If you act on an important decision without a complete journey through the three yeses, your decision and action may not be as intact and strong as it can be. Let’s take the buying of your house for example. First you had the instinctive ‘yes, I like this house’, on your first visit. This first decision...
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Being Attractive To New Insight – A Consultant Journal
If you are to make yourself attractive to new learning and insight you have to dare to step into unknown situations, and to do that you must: 1. be fascinated with life and living. 2. be comfortable in not knowing. 3. love learning, truth and growth more than you love your ego. 4. be excited about new possibilities more than you love your need for...
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Decision Making – What’s Better?
What’s better than making decisions? What is more fun, more powerful and more creative than getting up in the morning and thinking that what you’ve got to do today is to make decisions? Making decisions is great but even more fun, more energizing and more creative is to have the mindset that today you don’t need to make decisions – that today your endeavor is...
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“Change Is An Endeavor, It’s A Real Enterprise”
Here are a few quotes from a Harvard Business Review conversation with Twyla Tharp. These sweat beads of wisdom go beyond art. She captures the essentials of any dedicated endeavor. “…everyone can be creative, but you have to prepare for it with routine. There’s no other way around it. It’s an absolute mistake to think that art is not practical—or that business cannot be creative....
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The Greatest Pragmatism In The World
The greatest pragmatism in the world is to have a dream you work toward realizing. To say, “I don’t dream. I deal in reality.” is to negate your power and to deny your ability to transform reality. Your ability to work and to realize your purpose and dream is the most real thing in the world. It is reality. Put differently, without idealism, a “realistic”...
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Innovation Workshop With Columbus
After returning from discovering America Columbus was honored in a series of celebrations. At one such party he was criticized by a gentleman who said: “What’s the big deal, anyone sailing west could have found America”. Columbus went and fetched a cooked egg and challenged all those present to balance the egg on its sharp end. One after the other they tried but they all...
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New Champions – The Story of Emerging Markets
The lessons of newly emerging champions in the global economy from a Davos CEO forum: • You have to have a mission. A mission of creating a better world for your children. • Make impossible things happen. • Be bold and persevere. • Be a bridge. • Rethink cultural biases. • Rethink where talent is – create talent. • Empower women. • Rethink where innovation...
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Innovation Requires “Whole-Brain” Not Just “Right-Brain”
The Economist writes intriguingly about Evan Williams the founder of Blogger and Twitter: “Williams accidentally stumbled upon three insights. First, that genuinely new ideas are, well, accidentally stumbled upon rather than sought out; second, that new ideas are by definition hard to explain to others, because words can express only what is already known; and third, that good ideas seem obvious in retrospect.” The Economist...
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