Curiosity as a Critical 21st Century Leadership Practise

The CASE FOR Curiosity as a leadership practise
Elaine Rumboll
University of Cape Town
Graduate School of Business
Cape Town, South Africa

Common (yet ineffective tactic) to deal with information overload
Definition of curiosity and how to create a curious state
How we can apply this to our own leadership
practise

The nervous system is incapable of processing more than 110 bytes of information per second
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The first thing we need for innovation is fascination with wonder, we are taught instead to decide.
Dawna Markova

ATTENTION AUDIT

CURIOSITY IS AN APPRECIATING ASSET

Lack of curiosity is a breeding
ground for stereotyping and
discrimination, inflated confidence, ignorance that can actually lead to poor decision-making, dogmatism and rigidity of thought.
Todd Kashdan (2009)

George Loewenstein
REFERENT WITH MORE INFO THAN YOU POSSESS
Incongruity
Mental Model
curiosity

Developmental Robotics and Artificial Curiosity – Mechanism of Condensation
Jürgen Schmidhuber

How to create a Curious State

KILL THE CRITIC IN YOUR HEAD
http://the-definition.deviantart.com/art/Eye-Story-17716419

Peer Drawing

Go slow
to go fast

Issey Miyake
“ Colour Hunting”
Spring/Summer Collection
Paris, 2009

Answers don’t change the world. Questions do.