Personal Transformation as the means to creating a Culture of Innovation

1. INNOVATION
starts with “i”
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2. INNOVATION
means:
to bring in
something new

3. INNOVATION
requires a field to
move into

4. Most of us are too full of ideas
and notions, and our
organizations are full of
guidelines (written and
unwritten) about “how things
are done (around here).”

5. There is rarely room for
innovation to occur, to take
hold inside of us, and
surely not within our
organizations.

6. If your cup is full, you
must empty it.

7. Hence, the first step in allowing for
innovation to occur is to create space, a
field for it to flow into

8. Innovation is not a thing.

9. Innovation starts
with “i”
– with the
individual.

10. Each individual is responsible for
innovation and for creating a
culture of innovation.
Each individual holds a field that
will allow for certain ideas and
behaviors to emerge – or not.

11. You can change your actions to bring about new results. But
that will only get you so far.
Some results will be out of reach until you shift who “i” is as
an observer – in turn making available new actions.
To bring in something new, the observer has to shift.

12. Transformation starts
with a letting go of who
“i” currently is, for who
“i” could become.

13. Change is gradual and
continuous. To get from point A
to point F, change will move
through B, C, D, E .
Transformation jumps, is
discrete.
Transformation will force us to
cease to exist in point A before
(hopefully) appearing anew in
point F.

14. Transformation is
akin to a
death experience

15. Transformation is a
requirement if we
wish to keep up with
the exponential
changes occurring
around us.
“An analysis of the history of
technology shows that technological
change is exponential, contrary to
the common-sense ‘intuitive linear’
view. So we won’t experience 100
years of progress in the 21st century
— it will be more like 20,000 years
of progress…” – Ray Kurzweil

16. By allowing ourselves to die and be
born anew, by creating openness
for innovation in ourselves – we
create openness for innovation in
that which we consider “other”.

17. The etymological roots of leadership hint towards
this: it’s meaning was to go forth, to cross a
threshold, but also to die.

18. Experience occurs as a
result of an
interference pattern
between “i” and “I”
inside ourselves, and
between “i” and
“other” or “i” and
“Other” outside of
ourselves.
“I” “Other”
“other”“i”
Ordinary
World
Extra-
ordinary
World
Internal External
Ordinary Self
Highest Potential
Reality
Numinous

19. Innovation happens in the individual first.
And then in relation between two
individuals, and then between more than
two individuals – at which point it is
beginning to become part of a culture of
innovation within the larger context, e.g.
within an organization.

20. We cannot force innovation. We
can immerse ourselves in a
subject matter, and then allow
ourselves to let go of who we
think we are, let go of “i” and
seek to connect with “I”, our
highest potential.
By means of doing so, we
expand the field we are capable
capable of holding, and allow
for something new to enter, for
a “Eureka” moment to occur.

21. We then need to find the “others”,
those also having made or willing to
make the jump. When we do, we can
begin to create a stronger and
stronger field inside of our
organization, and eventually hit
critical mass, changing “how we do
things around here”, and creating a
wholly new culture, a culture of
innovation.

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