1. RIDING THE BLUE TRAIN A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth

• A presentation byKaushik Palbased on the book Riding The Blue Train

By Bart Sayle and Surinder Kumar

2. From Bart Sayle and Surinder Kumar

This book is dedicated to our readers who, as leaders, choose to develop great people and inspire them to Ride the Blue Train .

3. Case Study Wrigley Company

Business Situation

In 2000, sales growth had slowed or dried out

Culture of conservation and risk averse

No room for high spirits, passion, creativity

Lacking unified direction, short on inspiration

Gap between management and employees

Organization not working together

Needed new destination, new future

4. Case Study Wrigley Company

Breakthrough Philosophy

To transform the business, you must transform the people;

To build the business, you must build the people;

To grow the business, you must grow the people.

Breakthrough is a holistic, congruent approach to accelerating personal, professional, and business transformation for growth.

5. Case Study Polaroid Corp

Innovation in Leisurely Stroll

1943, Edwin Land and his daughter Jennifer in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Why not now? asks Jennifer

Could Land do a camera that delivered picturesinstantly

Designed the camera in his mind

Curiosity and open attitude helped him

get around 535 patents

6. Case Study Polaroid Corp

Magical Thinking

Opportunity in Nothing is Impossible

30 yrs to perfect that camera in mind

Breakthrough value of uninhibited thinking

Raising creativity out of a question

Sense of wonder of a child

Imagine the unimaginable for propulsive growth

Give rise to Magical Thinking

7. Power of Magical Thinking

Thinking pattern defines an individual and the organization. Its the cultural mindset.

Magical Thinking

Heroic Thinking

Resigned Thinking

Cynical Thinking

8. The Five Powers

Power #1: Insight

Power #2: Inspiration

Power #3: Intentionality

Power #4: Using Intentional Language

Power #5: Congruence

9. Introducing the BLUE TRAIN

BLUE Trainis an express train that creates momentum.

Creates the future by design rather than letting it happen by default.

Uses propulsive energy of insight, inspiration and intentionality.

Charges everyone with sense of mission, direction and liberating power of personal accountability.

Sets Trajectory for explosive, sustained growth.

Ensures platform of growth than in the past or bybusiness as usual.

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