This document summarizes a webinar on developing habits to thrive in disruptive times. The webinar focused on 5 key habits: 1) having audacity and bold ideas, 2) questioning everything, 3) disrupting yourself before others do, 4) embracing failure and iteration, and 5) becoming a triage master. The speaker argued that disruptive times require turning disruptions into strategic advantages through courage and different thinking. He encouraged participants to unleash their disruptive courage.

1. Think Epic, Be Epic: A How-to Guide
for Disruptive Times
Speaker:
Bill Jensen
Author
Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic
Moderator:
Max Mihelich
Associate Editor
Workforce magazine
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6. Think Epic, Be Epic: A How-to Guide
for Disruptive Times
Max Mihelich
Associate Editor
Workforce magazine
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7. Think Epic, Be Epic: A How-to Guide
for Disruptive Times
Bill Jensen
Author
Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic
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8. Think Epic, Be Epic
Unleashing
Everyone’s Courage
Bill Jensen
CEO, The Jensen Group

9. Why are you here?
Age of personal
disruption
1. Smarter, not harder
2. Culture of innovation

10. Master Class on Disruption:
Think Epic, Be Epic
100 Disruptive
Heroes

11. Webinar Goal
Ahas

12. Challenge for us all…
The people who will
succeed in this era
are those who figure out
how to benefit from,
or take advantage of,
continuous disorder
and disruption

13. Polling
Disruptive Change and You
3 Qs

15. Two books simplified…
• 7 Character Traits
• 25 Successful Habits
•
5 Habits

16. 1. Audacity Matters
“When you think nothing
can be done —
that’s bullshit.
You have to have
the courage to take the leap
of faith. The amount of possibilities is infinite.”

17. 1. Audacity Matters
Get aggressive about
your ideas. Now!
Incrementalism
during disruptive times
is a
risky career/biz strategy

18. 1. Audacity Matters
Radical Disruptors and
Good Corp. Citizens Agree
1. Simple, bold ideas matter
2. Create conversation space
3. Piloting mitigates risks

19. 2. Question Everything
“How would you design a
healthcare
system if there
was no such thing
as doctors? Or if we weren’t so
tied to chemical solutions?”

20. 2. Question Everything
Many of our systems,
structures, rules are
STILL holdovers from
Industrial Age
• Ability to question everything =
Ability to question your own assumptions
• Respect the people, question everything else

21. 2. Question Everything
Find your core set of Q’s
Practice, practice, practice
• “How do you define success?”
• “What if…”
(…there were no rules for this?)
(…we piloted this?)
(…we crowdsourced the solution?)
• “Why…?”
(up to 5 times!)

22. 3. Disrupt Yourself
“You have to learn to kill what
you’re most
proud of.
That’s very hard
because you’re emotionally
attached to it. But you have to.”

23. 3. Disrupt Yourself
Do unto you before
others do it for you!
• Disrupting yourself is not risk-free
• Disrupting yourself restructures risk
• You get to define the risk you will take:
• how it will benefit you if things go well
• how it will affect you if things go poorly

24. 3. Disrupt Yourself
Know thyself. Deeply.
“I realized that being a
professor wasn’t
the choice that
would make me
happy.”

25. 4. Make a Mess
“Nobody is smart enough to
know what will work and
what won’t.
We try, we fail,
then adapt.
You have to embrace failure.”

26. 4. Make a Mess
Learn to:
Iterate, Iterate, Iterate!

27. 4. Make a Mess
Assign yourself
“Failure Projects”
One project
per quarter
in which you
intentionally
push yourself or the project
beyond a safe and predictable zone.

28. 5. Be a Triage Master
TRIAGE The ability to
assess any situation,
rapidly prioritize
what needs to be done,
who needs to be involved —
effectively, rapidly
communicating it all.

29. 5. Be a Triage Master
“This is hard work. We need
to change how
we educate
our workforce.
To be semi-autonomous AND
do quality assessments.”

30. 5. Be a Triage Master
The one SKILL
that rules them all

31. 5. Be a Triage Master
IFTF 2020 Work Skills
10 Core Skills
• Sense-Making
• Cognitive Management
• Adaptive Thinking

32. SUMMARY
Be a Disruptive Hero
Disruptive times demand
your ability
to turn disruptions
into strategic
advantages.
Different goggles…
Courage to use them

33. SUMMARY
Be a Disruptive Hero
HABIT 1
Audacity Matters
HABIT 2
Question Everything
HABIT 3
Disrupt Yourself
HABIT 4
Make a Mess
HABIT 5
Be a Triage Master

34. What Are You Thinking?
Feeling?
Ahas?

35. “For anyone who
wants to affect
positive change
in the world.”
“Brilliant.
Exhilarating.
Moves you to action.”

36. Bill’s punchline...
It’s time to unleash the
disruptive courage
within you.
Will you?
FROM Disruptive Dilemma
TO Disruptive Ability

37. Bill Jensen
President/CEO
The Jensen Group
1.973.539.5070
bill@simplerwork.com

38. Q&A
Bill Jensen
Author
Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic
• Please take this time to submit your
Questions.
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