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Thought Leadership
This document discusses expanding your mind for the modern world through leadership and non-linear thinking. It emphasizes that people are not logical and consistency can be a conundrum. It encourages questioning assumptions and challenging yourself through lifelong learning, as well as taking control of your own thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. The overall message is about expanding your thinking beyond linear patterns through self-leadership.
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Thought Leadership
- 1. Thought EXPANDING YOUR MIND FORA MODERN WORLD LEADERSHIP andrewbryant author | speaker | coach 1
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- 4. the ability to influence yourself, toachieve your objectives. 4
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- 7. The Consistency Conundrum 1+1 =2, 2+1 = 3, 3+1 = 4 7
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- 10. "Not just infectionbut Contagion" 10
- 11. 5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233 11 “But it workedin the past!”
- 12. Non-Linear Thinking Human thoughtcharacterized by expansion in multiple directions, rather than in one direction, and based on the concept that there are multiple starting points from which one can apply logic to problem.. 12
- 13. I see lifealmost like one university education that I never had – every day I’m learning something new. Richard Branson “ MY BIGGEST MOTIVATION. JUST TO KEEP CHALLENGING MYSELF.” 13
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- 18. ARE YOU THE DRIVEROR PASSENGER? 18 18
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- 21. It Starts witha Question 21
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Thought leader is a term first coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Business Review and founding Editor-in-Chief of Strategy + Business magazine, where he first coined the term.It has since evolved into a catch phrase describing someone who is supposed to have progressive and innovative ideas.
- #3 Why are you here?Adults need to know why to learning anything. Kids ask Why all the time.Adults Why goes unconscious.We are going to explore how you can expand your mind.
- #4 Dad’s hardware story?Do you want to be right or rich?Do you, like me, sometimes think you have the right answer which may prevent you serving your customer or seeing new possibilities.
- #5 I started my career as a physiotherapist, in England in theEarly 80’s, And then started working with Elite athletes and even 1st division soccer teams. I realized at that time, as did other, that success was more than physical it was mental.Here is the definition from the book I wrote with Dr Ana Kazan
- #6 Find as many associations as you can. Cat are like are fridge because…There are multiple right answers.Gen Y and earlier adoption of technology is about seeing the connections.
- #7 …they are psychological.Fun with the size of your brain.An explanation about how brains are primarily build for safety and to be risk averse but in the right conditions are capable of extra-ordinary jumps.
- #8 We build mental maps which create filters to our understanding. Explain how we see what we expect to see.
- #9 But M&Ms lost out to Reese's Pieces when Mars Candy didn't grasp why it should be featured in the movie E.T because they didn’t make the connection
- #10 Philips Electronics ignored their own engineer, Tony Fadell, when he pitched them a music player tied to a content delivery system.Steve Jobs did make the connection and the rest his history.
- #11 MalcolmGladwell showed how things can change really rapidly in his book the tipping point.And we are here today to look at how video or telepresence can be a contagion
- #12 People and Organizations that stick with any process because “it worked in the past” puts themselves at risk of future failure. Nokia missed the smart phone and kodak missed digital cameras.To be a thought leader we need to get change from Arithmetic thinking to Geometric – just like nature.0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610
- #13 Non-linear thinking, a relatively new term, that explains the kind of thought leadership we now need.
- #14 Having shared the stage with Sir Richard, he is a geometric thinker who dares to dream with Virgin Space.
- #15 So how do we make decisions?We need to cut into the problem.
- #16 First we must own our thoughts and feelings.(Andrew shows non-ownership by ‘acquiring jewelry from the audience.They say “mine” to get it back.
- #17 We must defend our thoughts by saying “No” to make room for “yes”
- #18 You have to get off your butt which is your consistent habits and inner dialogue.(address risk of making a decision and the risk of not making a decision)
- #19 When you choose you put yourself in the driver seat of your career
- #20 Say “yes” to being a thought leader and going faster than the competition.
- #21 TED did and today, TED is the most-watched lecutre series on EarthFounded in 1984, TED's presentations went largely unnoticed for 22 years.In 2006 and early 2007, TED organizers made the right decision to begin posting videos online.TED videos became an instant sensation. It has now had a billion views.
- #22 “Where can I get a good hamburger on the road?”
- #23 Consider the possibility that everythingwe know today about our worldemerged because people were curious. Are you running what if scenarios like Einstein?