I’m amazed at the
position I find myself
in today
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IA Summit ’09:
My first public solo presentation
IA Summit ’08:
My first IA Summit
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IA Summit Closing Plenaries:
2005 - Andrew Dillon
2006 - Peter Merholz
2007 - Rashmi Sinha
2008 - Andrew Hinton
2009 - Jesse James Garrett
2010 - Whitney Hess
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IA Summit Closing Plenaries:
2005 - Andrew Dillon
2006 - Peter Merholz
2007 - Rashmi Sinha
2008 - Andrew Hinton
2009 - Jesse James Garrett
2010 - Whitney Hess WTF!
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I don’t need you
to tell me
how green I am
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Synchronicity
brought me here
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Who I Am Who I Want to Be
{ My pursuit of happiness
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gapingvoid.com
ﬔe Tribe
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You are not alone
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Egos: few
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“If I have seen further it
is by standing upon the
shoulders of giants.”
– Isaac Newton
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Who is your mentor?
Who calls you their mentor?
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“Knowing where one belongs
can transform an ordinary person
– hardworking and competent
but otherwise mediocre –
into an outstanding performer.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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Love
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Do what you love
in the service of people
who love what you do
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Is this your job or your
passion?
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Why do you care?
Why are you here?
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Work
vs.
Life’s work
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ﬔis isn’t a job,
it’s a calling
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ﬔisIsIndexed.com
Our
Common
Mission
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We help people
enhance their own lives
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ﬔe Butterfly Effect
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We want to
change the world
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If you wanna be somebody,
if you wanna go somewhere,
you better wake up
and pay attention
– Sister Act 2
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ﬔisIsIndexed.com
Wake-Up
Call
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It’s not about you
(or us)
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We design systems
that enable more
successful behaviors,
but we don’t make them.
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“Like so many brilliant people,
[we] believe that
ideas move mountains.
But bulldozers move mountains
– ideas show where the
bulldozers should go.”
– Hugh MacLeod
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It’s time to focus our energy
outside of the UX tribe,
to become recognized leaders
to makers & management
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How do we gain
influence?
Over our companies,
colleagues and clients
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“ﬔe price of greatness is
responsibility.”
– Winston Churchill
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Source unknown
What’s
Holding Us
Back?
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We heroize the tools
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A fancy tool is just
a pillar to hide behind
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We limit ourselves
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We accommodate out of guilt.
We attack out of anger.
We avoid out of fear.
– William Ury
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We’re afraid to be wrong
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You screw up every day
and everyone
already knows it.
But do you admit it?
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Celebrate
Fear
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Fear is growth
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Love hurts
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Live in pursuit of the OSM
(Oh Shit Moment)
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Fail magnificently
(Love demands that you do)
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“Not doing it –
when you know full well
you had the opportunity –
that hurts far more than
any failure.”
– Hugh MacLeod
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True leaders inspire
others to lead
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Our
Legacy
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Some say they have
20 years’ experience,
when all they really have is
one year’s experience,
repeated 20 times.
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Can your company
succeed without you?
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Can your company
succeed without you?
(No? Are you proud of that?)
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What is our legacy?
(Is it outside this room?)
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Let’s not be a footnote in
a technology textbook
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Our legacy rests on all of
our shoulders
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ﬔank you.
Whitney Hess
whitney@whitneyhess.com
http://whitneyhess.com
@whitneyhess
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ﬔe Radical Leap by Steve Farber
ﬔe Radical Edge by Steve Farber
ﬔe Power of a Positive No by William Ury
Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod
Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
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