Series A Fundraising Guide (Investing Individuals Improving Our World) by Accion
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2. The most restrictive habit of thought is to test all new information against what you already know. It's the perfect way to stay where you are. Napoleon Hill The Law of Success
11. One brilliant idea can yield a higher return in the new economy than a lifetime of hard work and still we choose the hard-working paradigm from the Industrial Age
12. The problem is not to come up with new ideas but to get the old patterns that are so strongly rooted in us to give up John Manyard Keynes
15. The main thing I want to tell you is not that you must think positively, but you should think in possibilities. Mindset, say the way you look at things by default, is much more important than positive thinking. Most people see problems everywhere, I see opportunities everywhere. Jay Abraham The world's most expensive consultant $ 50.000 per day
16. An entrepreneur in Chicago owned three dry cleaners that made four times more profit than the industry average. He hired Jay for a day to inspire his expansion plans . Jay suggested a paradigm shift : instead of looking how he could open more dry cleaners Jay helped the entrepreneur to license his unique concept to 2000 other dry cleaners at $ 200 per month. This entrepreneur now earns $ 400,000 per month with the same three dry cleaners
17. Information Age Industrial Age Agricultural Age Ideas Age Va l ue Time Many of our mental models originate from the Industrial Age. Object world Digital world World of possibilities
18. . Benoit Mandelbrot Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University Originator of FRACTAL MATHEMATICS [email_address] As the number of connections in the world increase organizations and markets behave more and more like living complex ecosystems . Within such an environment you can not rely anymore on models based on the normal distribution
19. Information Age ‘ netwerk’ Industrial Age -> ‘ machine’ Transformation Age ‘ living ecosystem’ Va l ue Time
21. Fractals are 'self-similar scales’ which you can compare with the orbits of electrons around a nucleus. In order to change tracks, an electron has to make a quantum jump . So ecosystems also make evolutionary quantum leaps.
23. The key to success in the 21st century is 'Creative Collaboration', the fractal combination of three ingredients: ideas, information and relationships. Jay Abraham
24. Fractal thinker From $ 20,000 per year to $ 13,000,000 in less than 1 year by exchanging unsold advertising slots on radio and TV networks against the total profit on the first order ICY HOT. The founders of Icy Hot became rich of the repeat orders. One year later they sold their company for $ 60 million. Two years after their "day with Jay Abraham" they had a capital of $ 60 million…
34. Although you can not be successful without capital, technology, strategy and good quality products or services, culture determines how successful you will be with these resources…
40. A research team from Stanford University has researched the secret of the 1% most extraordinary organizational culture. Their conclusion was that the secret of the most productive cultures exists in the ability to constructively keep communicating when subjects become heavily emotionally charged ...
42. Goleman and colleagues argue in a special issue about breakthrough leadership that for leaders in the ideas age, the management of the organization begins with managing their own emotional state .
43. Harvard Business Review Emotionally unintelligent leaders create toxic organizations that in the short term will score under pressure, "but ultimately always fail”. Wise leaders create a safe and vital culture in which information is shared, where trust reigns, where people are willing to take healthy risks, and where constructive feedback contributes to group learning.
49. Moving around: A slide allows quick access from different floors ... There are also poles available ... they are similar to the ones used in fire stations
50. INNOVATION: Large boards are available just about everywhere because 'ideas don't always come when seated in the office' says one of Google’s managers.
60. “ You would like to know it all very carefully, however my idling, I even myself can’t explain, On the field it just happens .” Johan Cruijff, Het Parool 11 januari 1966
61. Where do my ideas come from? I can not say for sure. They come spontaneously, directly and indirectly .” Ludwig von Beethoven
62. Albert Einstein “ Scientific breakthroughs have little to do with intellect. There is always a leap in consciousness. You can call it intuition. The solution just comes to you and you do not know how or why."
65. Joy, passion Enthusiasm Conciliatory Compassionate Tolerant Anger Apathetic (passive) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Defensive Open If you want to measure the degree of openness of a culture you have to look at the chronic emotional state of the organization
66. The ‘GAP’… De ideal culture (SYNERGIE/FLOW) Most organisation cultures fit here Joy, passion Enthusiasm Conciliatory Compassionate Tolerant Anger Apathetic (passive) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
67. The ‘BRIDGE’ … THIS IS THE BRIDGE: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIALOGUE Joy, passion Enthusiasm Conciliatory Compassionate Tolerant Anger Apathetic (passive) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 De ideal culture (SYNERGIE/FLOW) Most organisation cultures fit here
68. "Dialogue is the way to find and question our implicit standards. Dialogue can therefore be very transformative. " David Bohm
77. Try openness, respect and trust … More you don’t need. Once we respect the inherent principles of a complex ecosystem, growth and prosperity will automatically occur.
