John Furey (Mindtime.com) talks about human engagement and adoption patterns, through several characteristics, including past, present, and future-oriented ones. They explain why some companies are successful with innovation and why others fail. See more in John's book "It's All About Time - How Companies Innovate and Why some Do It Better" - http://amzn.to/1dOhS9r 2nd Austrian Innovation Day - Palo Alto, September 4th, 2013

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Understand People
®

2. “The
world
as
we
have
created
it
is
a
process
of
our
thinking.
It
cannot
be
changed
without
changing
our
thinking.”
Albert
Einstein
To
do
this
we
must
first
understand
our
thinking

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While
each
of
our
brains
is
wired
differently,
all
engage
based
on
three
fundamental
priori9es:
• Certainty
(Past—what
do
I
know?)
• Possibility
(Future—what’s
possible?)
• Probability
(Present—how
do
I
make
it
happen?)
The
MindTime
theory
of
mind
(in
essence)

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PROBABILITY
PRESENT
THINKING
POSSIBILITY
FUTURE
THINKING
CERTAINTY
PAST
THINKING
Analyze
Contemplate
Evaluate
Inves9gate
Judge
Reflect
Ruminate
Understand
Act
Complete
Control
Execute
Implement
Integrate
Monitor
Organize
Brainstorm
Change
Design
Dream
Explore
Imagine
Innovate
Inspire
Credibility
Detail
Evidence
Informa9on
Insight
Knowledge
Certainty
Prudence
Reliability
Balance
Commitment
Consensus
Harmony
Probability
Order
Per9nence
Predictability
Produc9vity
Ambiguity
Hope
Ideas
Ingenuity
Intui9on
Opportunity
Op9ons
Possibility
Risk
Cau9ous
Independent
Informed
Obsessive
Selec9ve
Skep9cal
Conscien9ous
Efficient
Methodical
Prac9cal
Realis9c
Reliable
Chao9c
Enthusias9c
Impulsive
Inven9ve
Open-­‐ended
Op9mis9c
Verbs
Nouns
AdjecKves

5. Order Balance
Harmony
Completion
Results
Stabilty
Continuity
Future
Thinking
Past
Thinking
Present
Thinking
Process
Ideas
Imagination
Vision
Truth
Evidence
Authenticity Care
Trust
Validation
Proof
Reflection
Caution
Possibility
Originality
Innovation
Opportunity
Flexibilty
Change
Hope
Organization
The World of Thinking™
PossibilityCertainty
Probability
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Meta cognition. The patterns of human thought

6. Construal Level Theory (CLT)
Certainty
Probability
Possibility
ABSTRACTABSTRACT
MANIFEST

7. Construal Level Theory (CLT)
Certainty
Probability
Possibility
ABSTRACTABSTRACT
MANIFEST
Making it a process
The data The idea

8. WorldView
Positive ActivationNegative Activation
Certainty
Probability
Possibility

9. WorldView
Positive ActivationNegative Activation
Certainty
Probability
Possibility
What problem does
it solve?
Build a brave new
world

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Capturing patterns of human thought
A simple 1-minute on-line
assessment, with high
reliability
Gives a specific result for
each individual
Which can be represented as
a data point (GPS coordinate)
in the MindTime Framework™
To read more about your
thinking style click here
487/398/532

11. The patterns of human engagement
Social or group awareness and
practice. Provide and use
support from community,
regular check-ins.
Try to reduce risk, keep
things private. Informed
and knowledgable. Take
measured approaches.
Clinical, skeptical.
Follow proven methods to
goals. Succeeds once
engaged. Take measured
approaches.
Self-directed, need proof and
evidence, change quietly, do not want
undue attention. Open, on invitation,
to advice from the right people who
have authority.
Rise to challenge, motivated by
opportunity, must be fun and
novel.
Will find the prevailing norm
around them and join. Will mix
challenge with approach
methodology and an informed
discernment.
Goal oriented, work towards
imagined (or visualized) desired
state. Want recognition.
Competitive.Certainty
Possibility
Probability
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The patterns of adoption
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Early majority; process oriented
resist unnecessary change
Late adopters and skeptics;
scientists and academics
Late majority; keepers of the
systems, no room for imagination
Late majority; hard to convince but
curious investigators
Visionaries, innovators and
enthusiasts
Early majority; opinion leaders and
influencers
Early adopters;
entrepreneurs and angel
investors
Probability
Certainty
Possibility

14. Innovators +
Enthusiasts
Innovators +
Enthusiasts
Past Future
Early Adopters +
Visionaries
Early Adopters +
Visionaries
Early Majority+
Pragmatists
Late majority+
Conservatives
Early Majority+
Pragmatists
Late majority+
Conservatives
Skeptics+
Laggards
Skeptics+
Laggards
Early Majority+
Culturals
Present
Certainty
Probability
Possibility

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION
ANTI WISE

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION
WISE

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Probability
EXECUTION
Possibility
IDEAS
Certainty
VALIDATION

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®

24. The MindTime® Map
Future Perspective
POSSIBILITY
Past Persepctive
CERTAINTY
Present Perspective
PROBABILITY
Conscien9ousness
Extraversion
Introversion
Neuro9cism
Agreeableness
Openness
PAST THINKING
.43**
– .11**
– .13**
.01
.03
FUTURE THINKING PRESENT THINKING
Neuroticism
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Openness
Conscientiousness
– .11
.37**
.00
.37**
.04
.12**
.07
.09*
– .10**
.65**
Correlation coefficients between scores on the TimeStyle Profile
& scores on the Big 5 Personality Traits 1
1 Costa and McCrae’s (1992) NEO-FFI
N = 819
*p < .05; p < .001
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The science