John Pearson over at Pails in Comparability revealed the primary Mindshift evaluate and I simply needed to share it with you.
To be trustworthy, I used to be nervous. Like anybody who cares about their work, you marvel how others will expertise it.
Let me simply share the highlights with you…
I can’t reward this guide sufficient! Why? Earlier than you host your subsequent same-old/same-old strategic planning activity power assembly—encourage everybody to learn this necessary guide.
Mindshift is subsequent to unimaginable to evaluate adequately—so I’m simply going to bullet-point 20 insights that popped out. (I’ve underlined nearly your entire guide. Oh, my.) And by the best way—the guide’s design, graphics, and attention-getting charts are superb. Mindshift is a pleasure to learn.
1. ALVIN TOFFLER: “The illiterate of the twenty first century won’t be those that can’t learn and write, however those that can’t study, unlearn, and relearn.”
2. PLEASERS: “Organizational psychologist Taska Eurich has studied self-awareness, and she or he’s discovered that there are two varieties of self-awareness: inner and exterior.” The two×2 chart on web page 57 is memorable.
• PLEASERS: Excessive Exterior Consciousness and Low Inner Consciousness
• AWARE: Excessive Exterior Consciousness and Excessive Inner Consciousness
• SEEKERS: Low Exterior Consciousness and Low Inner Consciousness
• INTROSPECTORS: Low Exterior Consciousness and Excessive Inner Consciousness
3. TITANIC! In 1912, Captain Edward John Smith “was captaining a model new ship with a novel design. However he didn’t convey a brand new mindset to the mission. He apparently didn’t open his thoughts to the likelihood that this huge ocean liner, the most important constructed on the time, won’t maneuver as readily as he was used to. Because the treasure hunter Bock Lovett says within the James Cameron blockbuster movie concerning the sinking, Smith had ’26 years of expertise working in opposition to him.’”
4. DISCOMFORT. “Once we have interaction in questioning what we’ve realized from our experiences and interrogating our beliefs, we will really feel unmoored. Both we will determine to just accept that discomfort and sail ahead or we will keep tethered to previous methods and turn into out of date.”
5. BLACKBERRY? “Simply consider all of the leaders in enterprise that did not embrace change: Blackberry, Nokia, Blockbuster, Toys R Us, Borders, Basic Motors…” and extra.
6. AQUINAS. “Italian Christian theologian and thinker St. Thomas Aquinas as soon as warned, ‘Watch out for the person with one guide.’” (Chapter 4, “The Newbie’s Thoughts,” is must-read.)
7. MISTAKES. Stanford Prof Carol Dweck contrasts a “Mounted Mindset” with a “Progress Mindset” and contains these values for a development mindset:
• “Errors assist me study.
• Is that this my finest work?
• Suggestions is efficacious.
• I enhance with apply.
• I received’t quit.”
She provides, “Why waste time proving time and again how nice you’re, when you possibly can be getting higher?”
8. FAILURE. “Legendary basketball coach John Wood as soon as stated that nobody is a failure till they begin blaming others.”
9. BE CURIOUS! View the eighth episode of the primary season of Ted Lasso to study “What Ted Lasso Can Educate Us About Curiosity.” Ted Lasso quotes Walt Whitman, “Be curious, not judgmental.” View the three-minute clip right here. (Hilarious!)
10. HOLY CURIOSITY. “Einstein believed curiosity is one in every of humanity’s finest traits.” He added, “By no means lose a holy curiosity.” (There’s that “curiosity” theme once more that retains popping up in my latest guide opinions.)
11. MID-POINT SUMMARY. Sensible! Midway by means of the guide, Brian Solis summarizes on one web page, in BIG print: “What a journey we’ve been on. Simply have a look at how far we’ve come.” On web page 121, he reminds us of 10 themes he’s coated, together with:
• “Collectively…we’ve realized that the door is opening to a novel financial system, and it’s an period that wants new management.”
• Collectively we’ve… “realized that regardless that executives would possibly assume they do, they don’t all the time have all of the solutions.”
12. SIX STAGES OF MINDSET SHIFTING. Now the enjoyable begins in Chapters 7 to 12: “Obtain, Understand, Weave, Conceive, Imagine, and Obtain.” Should-read!
13. MINDSET LEXICON. 5 phrases: “Trendsight, Trendsighting, Trendscape Canvas, Trendfluence, and Trendspark.” (I imply…how will you not learn this guide together with your group?)
14. SLOW DOWN! Oh, my. How can we tackle these looming tendencies? How can we sleep at night time? Brian Solis has two phrases for us: “Decelerate.” (Now he’s meddling! However it prompted me to play this tune at the start of a gathering I facilitated final week. You guessed it: “Gradual Down,” sung by Chuck Girard.)
15. NO BURDEN. “Early on, as we’re studying not simply the way to observe tendencies but in addition the way to determine them, letting go of the burden of making an attempt to foretell the longer term. That’s not what we’re making an attempt to do right here. We’re exploring the tendencies that may impression our ecosystem. It’s a means of getting good concerning the promise or potential of rising tendencies. It’s additionally spending time fascinated about how these tendencies may unfold and what these adjustments would possibly appear like.”
16. WONDER WALL! Let’s do that! The “Marvel Wall” train on web page 129 is definitely worth the value of the guide! Solis writes, “Making a marvel wall prompts your powers of curiosity. It helps you join the dots between the longer term you envision and the place you’re at present. The method ignites your childlike sense of marvel and helps you contemplate the questions with a newbie’s thoughts and a constructive sense of potentialities.” He contains 20 questions he’s discovered useful. (Assure: You’ll do a “Marvel Wall” at your subsequent strategic planning retreat.)
Listed below are two questions (“Questioning Samples”) that popped off the web page for me:
• “What WSJ or NYT headline would describe our best future state?”
• “If we don’t remodel now, what’s going to our tombstone learn and when?”
There are 18 extra “pattern” questions—examples of questions your group would possibly write on post-it notes after which publish in your Marvel Wall—“the visible reflection of the issues that stoke your curiosity and the issues which you could’t cease fascinated about, which might be burning inside you.”
17. NARRATIVE VS. NUMBERS. The creator writes that the three phases of “weave, conceive, and imagine” will assist to “develop a narrative for change that sparks curiosity, dialog, and collaboration, in the end resulting in motion.” The facility of story is explored—very creatively in these chapters (assume Pixar’s storytelling method)—but with this warning:
Solis mentions Professor Scott Galloway’s analysis, “Information could also be extra truthful, however within the battle between narrative and numbers, more often than not humanity picks narrative.” (Nevertheless, for a barely contrarian, however very useful complementary view, learn my evaluate of Making Numbers Depend, by Chip Heath and Karla Starr.)
18. WIM (What It Means) EXERCISE. I do know you’ll instantly use this planning instrument additionally. “Consider the WIM train as a means of attending to:
• …the what,
• so what,
• and now what…
of each pattern.”
19. SCENARIO PLANNING. Don’t skip the part on “a typical false impression concerning the nature of situation planning.” (Find out about IBM’s 1981 estimate that gross sales of private computer systems would peak at 200,000. “Sadly, they had been a little bit fallacious.” The quantity was 25 million!)
20. MAKE YOUR STORY PERSONAL. In Chapter 10, you’ll examine “Connecting Tendencies to the Human Situation by Making Your Story Private” and tales that enchantment to our deepest feelings: anger, disgust, concern, happiness, unhappiness, and shock. You’ll study from “the world’s best-known and most revered screenwriting lecturer” as referenced in HBR’s article, “Storytelling That Strikes Folks.” (And also you’ll need to get the popcorn and benefit from the basic film, Monsters, Inc.)
The creator notes that “the perfect tales are concerning the human situation all of us share”—and web page 195 features a graphic with 18 themes you possibly can leverage. The task: “Think about the way you would possibly inform a narrative a couple of pattern in a means that reveals how that pattern might help your viewers with these common features of life.”
Reminder: I advised you this guide is subsequent to unimaginable to adequately evaluate. I nonetheless haven’t completed it, so please learn this guide your self. (I would write a second evaluate of this guide down the street—it’s that good and it’s that necessary.)
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