Leading Innovation

leading INNOVATION

t r a n s f o r m y o u r t e a m t h r o u g h u n c e r t a i n t i m e s

CSP

…and yet a true creator is necessity, which is the mother of our

invention.

Plato The Republic, Book II 369 BC

Rate of Change (adapted from MegaTrends by John Naisbitt)

Data

Time

1970

19801983

1986

2000

Doubles in 10 years

Doubles every 5.5 years

Doubles every 20 months

3-6 week window

2014 Doubles every 36 hours

Rate of Change

Transforming during crisisMake a world of difference in uncertainty

DON’T DEFER DEVELOPMENT

dissipative structuresPrigogene, 1977

DISSIPATIVE “POP”

Creativity happens in the strictest

boundaries.

inspired from Peter Diamandis

CEO & Chairman

ChaosROI

Time

Chaos

ChaosOrder Life is Good

Order

Kiss of Death

Maximum growth occurs at the border

of chaos and order

Order

S-curve of change

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have.

But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves.”

Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher, 600 BC-531 BC

what’s old is new again ...

Authenticity

Being pResent

Common sense

ESSENCE of Leadership

Authenticity

Being pResent

Common sense

nspiring

ESSENCE of Leadership

Authenticity

Being pResentCommon sense

nspiRing

LeadershipESSENCE

© Yvonne Sum 2008

Purpose

WHY

Define Current Situation PAIN or CHALLENGE

Compelling Future COMMON VISION

Create a Vision

The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.

Peter Diamandis CEO & Chairman

If you want to build a ship, don’t summon people to buy wood, prepare tools,

distribute jobs and organise the work … … teach people the yearning for the wide,

boundless ocean Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Author of The Little Prince

stoRy selling Inspire with full technicolour,

soundtrack, emotions......

tribal insights for leadersLead a Movement

Tell a Story to those who want to listen

Connect a TribeMake change

Family basic unit of a tRibe

The future is not a place that we are going.

It is a place we are making.

John Schaar Futurist

exciting otheRs in youR tRibe

managing leadeRship energy

THINK DO GET

THINK

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking…” Albert Einstein

NOW FUTURE

Disaster

Mental Rehearsal

NOW FUTURE

Success

Mental Rehearsal

DO

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have.

But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves.”

Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher, 600 BC-531 BC

what’s old is new again ...

THE 7 ‘R’S OF LEADERSHIP ACTIONPRINCIPLES OF LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

Review/Reflect Rules

Re-Organise

Role Modelling

Respect

Routine

Running It

The 7R’s

of Leadership

LearningPARTNERSHIPS =

LeadershipESSENCE

LeadershipACTIONS

+ + GREAT Leadership

© Yvonne Sum 2008

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Pass onI

Authenticity

Being pResentCommon sense

nspiRing

LeadershipESSENCE

PURPOSE + PASSION

GET

READ RIGHT RE-WRITE

challenge the status quo

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,

the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law Baseball Pitcher1950-1967

Disney’s Creative Cycle

...thinks ‘big picture’ and orientates into the longer term

The Dreamer

... acts as if the dream is possible and orientates into a short-term time frame

The Realist

... considers both long & short-term issues, searching for potential sources of problems in both past and future

The Critic

Rational Emotive Therapy Ref EllisThe Observer

Creative intelligence as a Leader

!What context will you use your creative intelligence with your team?

Where are all the Leaders? Gareth Jones

the ResouRces

Are there any ...

Questions? Comments?

Insights?