Jason fried Download MP3       Innovation is ok – but I’d rather hear useful Like the world simple, so over used that that they don’t mean anything anymore Why grow – S – we were taught to be about growth, no way we want to be stagnate J – when people think about growth a lot they think right over the right size Big shouldn’t be a goal in and of itself Being content is great… Things are fundamentally very simple Been in business 11 years , 20 people, hire when it hurts not before„ hire late New office – Biggest problem in work – interruptions An environment that it silent, with a couple sound proof rooms Entrepreneur – it’s a long word It excludes people, they don’t think of themselves as entrepreneur, so use starter Entrepreneur has all this baggage over the years Cooking – the best way to get our word out is by sharing it, like chefs do Give out ideas…. Sm helps but you have to have something to say Have to know what you stand for People just care about the basics, the simplest thing that works for them Most of it comes down for solving simple problems we have everyday Why do people use pen and paper everyday? – because they’re easy Do less than the competition, underdo them,… stay in happy place and do less, trying to not be out-lessed People starting out want the simplest thing You’re a contrarian – via saul Put a moritorium on any talks – tired of speaking and I want to get back to work I love the process of building Buildt theatre in his office, 37 seats             saul The challenge we face – get beyond conversation and create meaningful networks   Jacob colker 74% of americans don’t volunteer, 60 hour week, stress Too busy #1 reason 24 million hours playing solitaire, 388 mill hours using fb, 2 bill videos on youtube , every single day Empire state – we could build 55 every single day 7 mill hours of labo Trillion hours of Re imagine volunteerism Crowdsourcing has a huge potential for social impact Sparked.org Using skills based engagement Haiti – uploading photos of missing persons Also fotos of 100000 people help sort through photos Where we’re headed Interested to us – but as far as useful – really hard for those with the skill set to get involved 1)    Post a challenge 2)    Volunteers answers your questions   Skilled employees from best companies Real business value 92% pick one company over another about how they feel abou them Seti institute Scientists speak in science speak, so seti posted a challenge, Helped dial down 2 pages of science speak First aid corps – graphic designers took 5 min, saved first aids hundreds of dollars Jackson, mesi warrior in kenya Well in my village, routed to san fran who had 3rd world water expertise, listed 20-30 miles away Posted challenge all the way in sanfran, taking him back 20 miles away – from 5 minutes Zak the yak – Focus on skills based engagement Free for non-profits  

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Innovation is ok – but I’d rather hear useful

Like the world simple, so over used that that they don’t mean anything anymore

Why grow –

S – we were taught to be about growth, no way we want to be stagnate

J – when people think about growth a lot they think right over the right size

Big shouldn’t be a goal in and of itself

Being content is great…

Things are fundamentally very simple

Been in business 11 years , 20 people, hire when it hurts not before„ hire late

New office –

Biggest problem in work – interruptions

An environment that it silent, with a couple sound proof rooms

Entrepreneur – it’s a long word

It excludes people, they don’t think of themselves as entrepreneur, so use starter

Entrepreneur has all this baggage over the years

Cooking – the best way to get our word out is by sharing it, like chefs do

Give out ideas….

Sm helps but you have to have something to say

Have to know what you stand for

People just care about the basics, the simplest thing that works for them

Most of it comes down for solving simple problems we have everyday

Why do people use pen and paper everyday? – because they’re easy

Do less than the competition, underdo them,… stay in happy place and do less, trying to not be out-lessed

People starting out want the simplest thing

You’re a contrarian – via saul

Put a moritorium on any talks – tired of speaking and I want to get back to work

I love the process of building

Buildt theatre in his office, 37 seats

 

 

 

 

 

 

saul

The challenge we face – get beyond conversation and create meaningful networks

 

Jacob colker

74% of americans don’t volunteer, 60 hour week, stress

Too busy #1 reason

24 million hours playing solitaire, 388 mill hours using fb, 2 bill videos on youtube , every single day

Empire state – we could build 55 every single day

7 mill hours of labo

Trillion hours of

Re imagine volunteerism

Crowdsourcing has a huge potential for social impact

Sparked.org

Using skills based engagement

Haiti – uploading photos of missing persons

Also fotos of

100000 people help sort through photos

Where we’re headed

Interested to us – but as far as useful – really hard for those with the skill set to get involved

1)    Post a challenge

2)    Volunteers answers your questions

 

Skilled employees from best companies

Real business value 92% pick one company over another about how they feel abou them

Seti institute

Scientists speak in science speak, so seti posted a challenge,

Helped dial down 2 pages of science speak

First aid corps – graphic designers took 5 min, saved first aids hundreds of dollars

Jackson, mesi warrior in kenya

Well in my village, routed to san fran who had 3rd world water expertise, listed 20-30 miles away

Posted challenge all the way in sanfran, taking him back 20 miles away – from 5 minutes

Zak the yak –

Focus on skills based engagement

Free for non-profits

 

1 year ago 

Jacob Colker Download MP3       Writes movies Hollywood way – teaches coorporate executives how to present In hollywood we tell our stories through pictures David putnam – road into hollywood on this fat horse called change Gave people chances to do what they really wanted to do And we had no money so it was really impossible 1)    Business 2)    Manage and ego 3)    Tell stories   Teach them – it’s all about them.. How do you get the sale – they like you, if they like you, because work is going to be dinner and on the phone, etc So the most important thing to do is be yourself Talk to people when you’re doing presentations like you talk to family Be interesting by caring what you talk about Talk in pictures People don’t make decisions in their head they make them in their gut… Memorable Repeatable Actionable Only goal – pull down the barriers between self and the people you’re talking to       Session 4:     Overlap – toronto group – has designers, mba’s michael runs it… Ontario college of art and design,  

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Writes movies

Hollywood way – teaches coorporate executives how to present

In hollywood we tell our stories through pictures

David putnam – road into hollywood on this fat horse called change

Gave people chances to do what they really wanted to do

And we had no money so it was really impossible

1)    Business

2)    Manage and ego

3)    Tell stories

 

Teach them – it’s all about them..

How do you get the sale – they like you, if they like you, because work is going to be dinner and on the phone, etc

So the most important thing to do is be yourself

Talk to people when you’re doing presentations like you talk to family

Be interesting by caring what you talk about

Talk in pictures

People don’t make decisions in their head they make them in their gut…

Memorable

Repeatable

Actionable

Only goal – pull down the barriers between self and the people you’re talking to

 

 

 

Session 4:

 

 

Overlap – toronto group – has designers, mba’s michael runs it…

Ontario college of art and design,

 

1 year ago 

Fabien Cousteau Download MP3       Trump bif in 1 aspect Water connects every one of us Water is a phenomenal thing The one and only oasis in space 134 award winning awards -  jacque He would take me to place and say … let’s go see.. that infusion of curiosity.. Unearth some of the misteries of the world He also said, go and explore your own things to make sure this is what you want Once you stick your head under water, it’s hard to not keep going down 200000 people get certified every year Oceans don’t represent 72% of our planet – if we talk about living space, over 99% We’ve explored less than 5% of our oceans Be voyers if you will People have taken jaws a bit too seriously Great white shark Sharks are the flag bearers to the health of our oceans 220 some odd species, most are vegeterian There are 100’s of millions of sharks in the same places people swim Media has you think that happens every day Losing betweern 100 to 200 million sharks everywhere It’s all about the adventure Humpback wale – mammalian reflex – when water hits our face we calm down and are able to go deeper Ocean obsorbs up to 65% of our carbon emissions We have lost over 50% of our world fish stocks People protect what they love – jacques yves cousteau Tell stories It’s all about hope, if it was all logic, all would be lost Planting trees, why don’t we plant fish Plant a fish program Start seeing our oceans as a bank account 3 simple things we can do 1)    Seafood watch card – download and use this 2)    Stop carelessly dumping things down our drain, we are starting to eat our own garbage 3)    Be proactive, get informed, talk to your tribe, use sm, talk to your family, your businesses Casandra lin – that’s exactly why we need to do these things If we can empower them to take advantage of the things we have squandered At the end of the day , we’re all fish out o f water

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Trump bif in 1 aspect

Water connects every one of us

Water is a phenomenal thing

The one and only oasis in space

134 award winning awards -  jacque

He would take me to place and say … let’s go see.. that infusion of curiosity..

Unearth some of the misteries of the world

He also said, go and explore your own things to make sure this is what you want

Once you stick your head under water, it’s hard to not keep going down

200000 people get certified every year

Oceans don’t represent 72% of our planet – if we talk about living space, over 99%

We’ve explored less than 5% of our oceans

Be voyers if you will

People have taken jaws a bit too seriously

Great white shark

Sharks are the flag bearers to the health of our oceans

220 some odd species, most are vegeterian

There are 100’s of millions of sharks in the same places people swim

Media has you think that happens every day

Losing betweern 100 to 200 million sharks everywhere

It’s all about the adventure

Humpback wale – mammalian reflex – when water hits our face we calm down and are able to go deeper

Ocean obsorbs up to 65% of our carbon emissions

We have lost over 50% of our world fish stocks

People protect what they love – jacques yves cousteau

Tell stories

It’s all about hope, if it was all logic, all would be lost

Planting trees, why don’t we plant fish

Plant a fish program

Start seeing our oceans as a bank account

3 simple things we can do

1)    Seafood watch card – download and use this

2)    Stop carelessly dumping things down our drain, we are starting to eat our own garbage

3)    Be proactive, get informed, talk to your tribe, use sm, talk to your family, your businesses

Casandra lin – that’s exactly why we need to do these things

If we can empower them to take advantage of the things we have squandered

At the end of the day , we’re all fish out o f water

1 year ago 

Ntiedo Etuk Download MP3       n-t educational video games 2.0 version oregon trail Computer engineer Math tutor in big bro big sisters What is the one big problem that if I could solve what make the biggest impact Engagement 90% of instruction still relies on textbook 61% find school boring Countries with highest boredome factor lowest achievement Kids play and fail, play longer and fail, completely self-motivated Ideas that sit behind the solution: 1)    How much culture invluences ed Personal freedoms that we take for granted, but what comes with that is the freedom to not take their ed seriously (coasting) japan, korea, india, us – haven’t found that unique thing that makes our kids want to get involved 2)    How much engagement and relevance inflluence His science teacher created quiz kids Drill and kill – that turned him on to science, Tricked me, got me engaged in studying by connecting it to something I love to do (really? Why trick?) I really like you but we never have any fun We don’t present critical info in a way they can get it(why do we decide it’s critical info) 3)    We don’t lack resources but resourcefulness Lack of an innovation twist It’s amazing how people can ignore you One innovation for ed – better teachers Charter schools are great, don’t know how to scale them 4 mill teachers to 53 mill kids, what percentage of 4 mill? Doesn’t scale   Postulate a solution If you have something wher e you need something scalable Imagine a world Next 10 yrs, billion virtual world users Ave age of game players 33 years old Every student wakes up and they’re part of a video game, you can’t hide You have to help the members of your team, find your friends , pick your curriculum, adaptive softward, move around, compete, collect points, System where kids want to help each other Points for help each other Start to have a movement, except completely driven by students Inmates are about to take over the asylum

Ntiedo Etuk

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n-t

educational video games

2.0 version oregon trail

Computer engineer

Math tutor in big bro big sisters

What is the one big problem that if I could solve what make the biggest impact

Engagement

90% of instruction still relies on textbook

61% find school boring

Countries with highest boredome factor lowest achievement

Kids play and fail, play longer and fail, completely self-motivated

Ideas that sit behind the solution:

1)    How much culture invluences ed

Personal freedoms that we take for granted, but what comes with that is the freedom to not take their ed seriously (coasting) japan, korea, india, us – haven’t found that unique thing that makes our kids want to get involved

2)    How much engagement and relevance inflluence

His science teacher created quiz kids

Drill and kill – that turned him on to science,

Tricked me, got me engaged in studying by connecting it to something I love to do (really? Why trick?)

I really like you but we never have any fun

We don’t present critical info in a way they can get it(why do we decide it’s critical info)

3)    We don’t lack resources but resourcefulness

Lack of an innovation twist

It’s amazing how people can ignore you

One innovation for ed – better teachers

Charter schools are great, don’t know how to scale them

4 mill teachers to 53 mill kids, what percentage of 4 mill? Doesn’t scale

 

Postulate a solution

If you have something wher e you need something scalable

Imagine a world

Next 10 yrs, billion virtual world users

Ave age of game players 33 years old

Every student wakes up and they’re part of a video game, you can’t hide

You have to help the members of your team, find your friends , pick your curriculum, adaptive softward, move around, compete, collect points,

System where kids want to help each other

Points for help each other

Start to have a movement, except completely driven by students

Inmates are about to take over the asylum

1 year ago 

Jana Sue Memel       Important to start from what actually scales The challenge isn’t that people don’t desire to get people water. It’s because it’s costs a ton The way finance works. Individual action is necessary but insufficient Critical because we spend a ton of our money on hearts and minds Wht we need you to do is look at the cobenefits Coal is 2nd largest of user of water, hydro is worse because of evap from lakes Why allow a coal plant, If you want to do something.. protest the coal plant Go from 2 lanes on both sides, put in 10 lanes Website the other day, that is changing the face of urban planning in dc Sell 10 mill to us, 100 thousand are priusses What will get us to change in a massive way – now Greed works now… Billion dollars to get a climate bill in the us People fundamentally believe that today 1)    Not their problem – whatever we do – it’s not as important as saving the planet 50% of carbon problems have a profitable way to solve it We need your help. Stop bothering with the stuff that’s not going to solve the problem 1)    Get involved locally 2)    Quit hanging with govern 3)    Give people something they can do    

Jana Sue Memel

 

 

 

Important to start from what actually scales

The challenge isn’t that people don’t desire to get people water.

It’s because it’s costs a ton

The way finance works.

Individual action is necessary but insufficient

Critical because we spend a ton of our money on hearts and minds

Wht we need you to do is look at the cobenefits

Coal is 2nd largest of user of water, hydro is worse because of evap from lakes

Why allow a coal plant,

If you want to do something.. protest the coal plant

Go from 2 lanes on both sides, put in 10 lanes

Website the other day, that is changing the face of urban planning in dc

Sell 10 mill to us, 100 thousand are priusses

What will get us to change in a massive way – now

Greed works now…

Billion dollars to get a climate bill in the us

People fundamentally believe that today

1)    Not their problem – whatever we do – it’s not as important as saving the planet

50% of carbon problems have a profitable way to solve it

We need your help. Stop bothering with the stuff that’s not going to solve the problem

1)    Get involved locally

2)    Quit hanging with govern

3)    Give people something they can do

 

 

1 year ago 

Carmen Medina Download MP3       1)    Is public perception of cia accurate and is it useful College debator, first in family to go to college – to become a lawyer, the only other thing I was interested in was the world, 1978, at lunch wander the halls looking for the other brown person, being a different thinker was harder than being a woman and a latino The agency is basically a knowledge organization, agency involves itself in covert action, says a lot about the ability of men and women to have forsight Endearing that cia was created – legalize sneaking around Cia is like the lindsay lohan of govern, everything we do is bad     2)    What is the motor that runs the world How you view this question tells you a lot about how the organization is viewed If you think dynamic forces are it, then we need organization to help actions that aren’t trying to hide The agency was built as if it was the first thing that’s true The internet came and what a problem for the agency Information is our business so that’s a theological question 20 of them – rebel alliance, bring in guest speakers to talk about change, how naïve Fell into trap of being synnical and negative Stop being uncomfortable being a heretic, that feeling of discomfort is what you need Combo of stick to it ed ness I believe in transparency – I love you carmen Only use collaborative tools only if you collaborative within The beaurocracy creates so many rules that they can’t keep track of all the rules Intelopedia I don’t believe in organizational change… I believe in people change No beurocracy, we all have to individually be beurocratic The only way we can keep track of the world evolving is if we are an open network a)    Men in smokey rooms b)    Large trends that manifest in world 3)    Are we the world When the cold war started we were 50% of the world economy Soon we are going to be only 10% of the world economy We can’t call the shots and spend money of defense strategies   Helping us understand this new era we are entering in Helping people understand the importance of transparency and collab   Don’t let yourself become synnical   Optimism is the greatest act of change Optimism is the greatest act of rebellion

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1)    Is public perception of cia accurate and is it useful

College debator, first in family to go to college – to become a lawyer, the only other thing I was interested in was the world, 1978, at lunch wander the halls looking for the other brown person, being a different thinker was harder than being a woman and a latino

The agency is basically a knowledge organization, agency involves itself in covert action, says a lot about the ability of men and women to have forsight

Endearing that cia was created – legalize sneaking around

Cia is like the lindsay lohan of govern, everything we do is bad

 

 

2)    What is the motor that runs the world

How you view this question tells you a lot about how the organization is viewed

If you think dynamic forces are it, then we need organization to help actions that aren’t trying to hide

The agency was built as if it was the first thing that’s true

The internet came and what a problem for the agency

Information is our business so that’s a theological question

20 of them – rebel alliance, bring in guest speakers to talk about change, how naïve

Fell into trap of being synnical and negative

Stop being uncomfortable being a heretic, that feeling of discomfort is what you need

Combo of stick to it ed ness

I believe in transparency – I love you carmen

Only use collaborative tools only if you collaborative within

The beaurocracy creates so many rules that they can’t keep track of all the rules

Intelopedia

I don’t believe in organizational change… I believe in people change

No beurocracy, we all have to individually be beurocratic

The only way we can keep track of the world evolving is if we are an open network

a)    Men in smokey rooms

b)    Large trends that manifest in world

3)    Are we the world

When the cold war started we were 50% of the world economy

Soon we are going to be only 10% of the world economy

We can’t call the shots and spend money of defense strategies

 

Helping us understand this new era we are entering in

Helping people understand the importance of transparency and collab

 

Don’t let yourself become synnical

 

Optimism is the greatest act of change

Optimism is the greatest act of rebellion

1 year ago 

Keith Yamashita Download MP3       ibm Is it worth daring to be great? Each of us come from a null set hypothesis – We believe we are in a world of every onward   y=x Then along comes shock   y=-x New abnormal, new para normal My answer starts with these: Grew up in orange county ca, happy childhood Zoom out smog film This was a shocking revelation There’s who we are then outside of that then outside of that then …. [dang this guy knows how to present] Got a bunch of guys about to turn blue Dad was an engineer on the apollo project, engineer and psychologist Grew up with a dad who’s job was to put the man on the moon When you grow up in a house with all the sketches and calcs, etc You start to believe that anything was possible Is it worth it to dare to be great Answer has  a lot to do with families and beginnings The center – you Is where it starts Kids are born to greatness, it’s not some deficit you have to fill to become great All kids start great, we unlearn greatness, we suppress it, Kids start in a perfect curious package Imagination, ideas and curiosity What it takes to be great: Being fully aware and fully alive When the rest of the world is going to tell you no It’s whether you are up for the journey to be fully aware fully alive Why is that importatn Because it’s rarely an individual act It’s about duos, that chemistry allows you to do great things Charles and ray eams – represent what he means by duos Who is that in your life that you have inherit trust, even if they are opposite to you Being in a duo is a super scary thing Trusting so deeply you can create together remarkable things, what neither of you can create on your own The japan society (check it out) about the quiet lens Interview innovators for 2 weeks I trust you implicity to do a terrific job and come back with what you learned It opened up this great relization about what innovation is about It’s not about each of them, it’s about us Think about the duos in your life, the invitations you extend, how many you pass up Dualship happens every single day The ability to be great is staring your right in the face The only way to make things happen, you need teams, duos are the greates thing to make it happne Trust only happens with duos Challenging the status quo, to create a new future   Create teams that are built on duos that can actively go after that status quo and do what’s right   It takes: Systems thinking and creativity   Almost all the challenges are systemic challenges We have the power to do it – we just have to harness it   Keep zooming out   You, duos, team, organization Ending the tyranny of the false trade-off   Paul girly – everything has to be optimized We often suboptimize – with an either or mentality There are hard trade-offs – but you don’t have to make false ones Often there are better choices than the first choice   First brand fellow of ibm Help the world build smarter cities   There’s so much more all of us can give to this solution   Representative of the next passion we have to embrace The systemic strategy that ends the tyranny of the false trade off     2x2  X axis resource Y axis possibility   Infinite possibility with finite resource is where there might be hope upper left   Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but rfk   We have no other choice than to try to be great.    

Keith Yamashita

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ibm

Is it worth daring to be great?

Each of us come from a null set hypothesis –

We believe we are in a world of every onward   y=x

Then along comes shock   y=-x

New abnormal, new para normal

My answer starts with these:

Grew up in orange county ca, happy childhood

Zoom out smog film

This was a shocking revelation

There’s who we are then outside of that then outside of that then ….

[dang this guy knows how to present]

Got a bunch of guys about to turn blue

Dad was an engineer on the apollo project, engineer and psychologist

Grew up with a dad who’s job was to put the man on the moon

When you grow up in a house with all the sketches and calcs, etc You start to believe that anything was possible

Is it worth it to dare to be great

Answer has  a lot to do with families and beginnings

The center – you

Is where it starts

Kids are born to greatness, it’s not some deficit you have to fill to become great

All kids start great, we unlearn greatness, we suppress it,

Kids start in a perfect curious package

Imagination, ideas and curiosity

What it takes to be great:

Being fully aware and fully alive

When the rest of the world is going to tell you no

It’s whether you are up for the journey to be fully aware fully alive

Why is that importatn

Because it’s rarely an individual act

It’s about duos, that chemistry allows you to do great things

Charles and ray eams – represent what he means by duos

Who is that in your life that you have inherit trust, even if they are opposite to you

Being in a duo is a super scary thing

Trusting so deeply you can create together remarkable things, what neither of you can create on your own

The japan society (check it out) about the quiet lens

Interview innovators for 2 weeks

I trust you implicity to do a terrific job and come back with what you learned

It opened up this great relization about what innovation is about

It’s not about each of them, it’s about us

Think about the duos in your life, the invitations you extend, how many you pass up

Dualship happens every single day

The ability to be great is staring your right in the face

The only way to make things happen, you need teams, duos are the greates thing to make it happne

Trust only happens with duos

Challenging the status quo, to create a new future

 

Create teams that are built on duos that can actively go after that status quo and do what’s right

 

It takes:

Systems thinking and creativity

 

Almost all the challenges are systemic challenges

We have the power to do it – we just have to harness it

 

Keep zooming out

 

You, duos, team, organization

Ending the tyranny of the false trade-off

 

Paul girly – everything has to be optimized

We often suboptimize – with an either or mentality

There are hard trade-offs – but you don’t have to make false ones

Often there are better choices than the first choice

 

First brand fellow of ibm

Help the world build smarter cities

 

There’s so much more all of us can give to this solution

 

Representative of the next passion we have to embrace

The systemic strategy that ends the tyranny of the false trade off

 

 

2x2 

X axis resource

Y axis possibility

 

Infinite possibility with finite resource is where there might be hope upper left

 

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but rfk

 

We have no other choice than to try to be great.

 

 

1 year ago 

Friday at BIF hq’s

Saul and Len…

 

If you are going to make change.. you had better be good at storytelling

The reason we can’t tell you a story is because nothing has changed, we leave everything to assumptions.

 

[add notes from book and back of packet.]

 

Partnership with 20 schools

Global

Within 5-6 years – most robust archive and the methodology to be able to scale it

I didn’t have communities I had groups

I didn’t have business models I had strategies

There isn’t a concept here that we haven’t already known for 40 years

Bob kaplan – compares for profit and non profit communities

1)    Creative construction is always at work in big countries on a global scale

But there’s only an overlap of about 2 firms

There’s something going on

In nonprofits virtually no innovation

2)    Tweaks to transformations – there are degrees of change that goes on in all forms of organization

What happened to the march of dimes when they found a cure for polio – they said – let’s go find another disease

Not all this innovation is all that good

Bottom 3 boxes all about doing something good

Most comfortable place to play

Line up task,

1965 – the more differentiation existed – the more complex the mechanisms need to be

The politics of integrations that you need to create, to get anything done politically often out weighs the ability to get things done

This isn’t abou t good or bad

He says he’s not going to go up against the reliability oriented world

Given cognitive limitations and structure

 

Structure – dartmouth friend – the only way to do meaningful is to hire it off, it can’t be done inside large organization, hive it off then the real thing is to connect it back in

Traditional large organizations are systemactically not able to make transformation happen

 

 

There’s a problem of desire

Check out zip car

His answers from other people:

Market research

Buy trucks van

 

Expensive, risky, no barriers to entry  - but start of uhaul – check out sam

He had huge passion, bought orange paint because he had no money and no one wanted the orange paint

He said there’s no better way to solve a problem then to assert it – so he woke up and announced it would go all over the world

So sam asserted it and no one ever challenged it

 

How do we use this model – of u-haul to get a model of mass distribution

People were pulled by the gravitational pull of the incentive

 

Whether you’re doing it yourself or in a big company – it just doesn’t look like a good idea… it’s just a hell of a business

 

Innovators want to be defined as risky, etc – that sets up these myths:

Defines people like sam as superman

Starbucks – 23 years of decline in coffee sales, coke/pepsi caught up to coffee

First on – after italy – menu in italian, opera, etc.. lasted short.. realized – it really wasn’t about the coffee

 

We say you have the idea? Blow it out into a business plan of 75 pages, data, capital, because someone in the venture community might look at this.

 

The price is so high – you have to really really want to do it

 

On your own – different framework, with explosion of business plan competition, most are doing them full blown on really dumb ideas

 

How do you keep doing innovation without dumb ideas.. stop doing business plans

1)

2) produces to high a commitment to a risky/bad idea

 

How do you reconstruct the process of innovation

1)    Have to be interested in it enough to produce a high level of energy

2)    What’s the methodology for figuring out an idea that is 30% done and get it to closure

Start and take a step

Step creates the evidence to get to the next step

Basic step small wins

3)    Risk – affordable loss vs expected return

The notion of being able to calculate expected return is a waste of time

It’s a problem of desire – how badly do I want to take that step

Think through a worst case scenario – are you still willing

If you’ve decide what your stop loss is and you live to it risk and uncertainty are completely irrelevant

All of us can do it.. just have to decide how badly you want it..

Cost of experimentation is cheap

Reasonably frictionless environment

Why not play

We have no formal ed process to engage these people

 

This stuff is so simple

Herb simon, sarah srafone, peter jarkes

Entrepreneurship is a method

 

Ways to enlist people:

a)    Sell them

Tangible transfrom/exchange of goods

b)    Enroll them

Friends, etc

 

You need both, only thing is they all need to buy in

Has to start in blue until someone can pay for orange

 

They all come with voice and resources, then you see the idea is becoming strikingly different than the idea you started with

 

Rather than look for funding – what if you sold something, what if you tried to move it along on a bootstrap

Take action as source of innovatoin rather than accumulatig resources

Tired of  people who are saying their inability to act – lack of resource

It’s not lack of resources, but lack of resourcefulness

 

We can say – that’s a deviation fo the plan – let’s get back to it

Or we can say – that’s interesting… new info – what do we do with it

 

 

u-haul’s model is there

find people who care

license people to actually play

 

 

 

bilingual – being able to play in reliability world and validity world

best way to learn a language – find a partner

 

you looking for a structural answer – there isn’t one

 

the way to take the scariness out – establish mechanisms for people to actually take steps and learn

license experimentation consciously

 

a master at the adjacencies

I can’t change at the speed I want what’s going on in, but I can create the adjacency and then expose my organization to it and maybe they will like it

 

There’s a problem of reasoning

 

 

How difficult to take the skunk work change and get it into the organization

What about p&g

50% of all new products will come from w/o organization

Open market innovation , completely changed the infrastructure

Ibm and p&g – both were going to fail – is that what made them change

Is that the only way –

 

Clearly necessary but not always sufficient

 

Mechanism is the uncertainty

Am I able

Am I willing

 

Strikingly unsatisfactory answer to a defined institution

 

Action sports  - have people that really care about what they do

Stimulating action –

When you don’t know things don’t subsitute enthusiasm

If I think of all my assets as liabilities I will lose because I’m going to war – defense

 

I don’t worry about my ability to defend

But to transfrom – I do penince by doing what I do on a global scale

The mechanism for innovation is to guarantee the ongoing protection of the original institution

 

Dang – just like us

Who are folks in organization that want to play

It’s not good and bad –

 

Adjacency serves as the r&d

 

Now when others are ready for something new – the lab has that

A neutral r& d platform

 

If you make sure we’re always number one – you get freedom

If you’re interested do great…  if not – do this

 

Also be experimental on how we do customer service

 

Takes senior level and adjacent platforms

 

To much of this work is projects… we need a sustainable platform for experimentation

 

Bob kaplan’s article on creative deconstruction

 

Without lectures/books/theories on innovation – innovation happens

It’s natural

 

Faculty centric institutions – if you don’t love who faculty are and what they do – you will be at war from the get go and you will lose

 

Deep love and respect for the fact that you can’t get there without them

1 year ago 

airport chatter

Snippets from great convo with @NabilHarfoush

in the Providence airport Friday afternoon.

 

Via Nabil:

On learning:

Learning is so much about emotion.

That 30 sec of Keith’s strong emotion that you sensed it was genuine – I learned more than I ever have – about community and connections and learning.

I have a hypothesis about emotional learning.

Commercials have the emotion thing down.

Learning is about modeling. A mother teaching an eagle to fly.

Best way to start a movement to show/find something people are emotional about.

 

On digital equity and scaling:

We should offer resources not manage them

We’re giving resources but not very relevant stuff

If you add local resources,

It’s not that the resources aren’t there

We end up depriving them of the resources that are there

G8 – 3000 meals a day for 8 leaders to get together

Fiji waters – people in fiji cannot drink their own water

 

How do you help movements take off

If we can help movements spread – and they can’t be owned

Make sure that no one owns it

Two things needed for a movement  (earl)

1)    Has to be very visible

2)    Easily copyable

 

Apple’s ear buds are white – visible and cheap

 

3rd world countries are starting to aspire at our intoxication

working on detox.. for most all of us.

1 year ago 

Jason fried Download MP3       Innovation is ok – but I’d rather hear useful Like the world simple, so over used that that they don’t mean anything anymore Why grow – S – we were taught to be about growth, no way we want to be stagnate J – when people think about growth a lot they think right over the right size Big shouldn’t be a goal in and of itself Being content is great… Things are fundamentally very simple Been in business 11 years , 20 people, hire when it hurts not before„ hire late New office – Biggest problem in work – interruptions An environment that it silent, with a couple sound proof rooms Entrepreneur – it’s a long word It excludes people, they don’t think of themselves as entrepreneur, so use starter Entrepreneur has all this baggage over the years Cooking – the best way to get our word out is by sharing it, like chefs do Give out ideas…. Sm helps but you have to have something to say Have to know what you stand for People just care about the basics, the simplest thing that works for them Most of it comes down for solving simple problems we have everyday Why do people use pen and paper everyday? – because they’re easy Do less than the competition, underdo them,… stay in happy place and do less, trying to not be out-lessed People starting out want the simplest thing You’re a contrarian – via saul Put a moritorium on any talks – tired of speaking and I want to get back to work I love the process of building Buildt theatre in his office, 37 seats             saul The challenge we face – get beyond conversation and create meaningful networks   Jacob colker 74% of americans don’t volunteer, 60 hour week, stress Too busy #1 reason 24 million hours playing solitaire, 388 mill hours using fb, 2 bill videos on youtube , every single day Empire state – we could build 55 every single day 7 mill hours of labo Trillion hours of Re imagine volunteerism Crowdsourcing has a huge potential for social impact Sparked.org Using skills based engagement Haiti – uploading photos of missing persons Also fotos of 100000 people help sort through photos Where we’re headed Interested to us – but as far as useful – really hard for those with the skill set to get involved 1)    Post a challenge 2)    Volunteers answers your questions   Skilled employees from best companies Real business value 92% pick one company over another about how they feel abou them Seti institute Scientists speak in science speak, so seti posted a challenge, Helped dial down 2 pages of science speak First aid corps – graphic designers took 5 min, saved first aids hundreds of dollars Jackson, mesi warrior in kenya Well in my village, routed to san fran who had 3rd world water expertise, listed 20-30 miles away Posted challenge all the way in sanfran, taking him back 20 miles away – from 5 minutes Zak the yak – Focus on skills based engagement Free for non-profits  

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Innovation is ok – but I’d rather hear useful

Like the world simple, so over used that that they don’t mean anything anymore

Why grow –

S – we were taught to be about growth, no way we want to be stagnate

J – when people think about growth a lot they think right over the right size

Big shouldn’t be a goal in and of itself

Being content is great…

Things are fundamentally very simple

Been in business 11 years , 20 people, hire when it hurts not before„ hire late

New office –

Biggest problem in work – interruptions

An environment that it silent, with a couple sound proof rooms

Entrepreneur – it’s a long word

It excludes people, they don’t think of themselves as entrepreneur, so use starter

Entrepreneur has all this baggage over the years

Cooking – the best way to get our word out is by sharing it, like chefs do

Give out ideas….

Sm helps but you have to have something to say

Have to know what you stand for

People just care about the basics, the simplest thing that works for them

Most of it comes down for solving simple problems we have everyday

Why do people use pen and paper everyday? – because they’re easy

Do less than the competition, underdo them,… stay in happy place and do less, trying to not be out-lessed

People starting out want the simplest thing

You’re a contrarian – via saul

Put a moritorium on any talks – tired of speaking and I want to get back to work

I love the process of building

Buildt theatre in his office, 37 seats

 

 

 

 

 

 

saul

The challenge we face – get beyond conversation and create meaningful networks

 

Jacob colker

74% of americans don’t volunteer, 60 hour week, stress

Too busy #1 reason

24 million hours playing solitaire, 388 mill hours using fb, 2 bill videos on youtube , every single day

Empire state – we could build 55 every single day

7 mill hours of labo

Trillion hours of

Re imagine volunteerism

Crowdsourcing has a huge potential for social impact

Sparked.org

Using skills based engagement

Haiti – uploading photos of missing persons

Also fotos of

100000 people help sort through photos

Where we’re headed

Interested to us – but as far as useful – really hard for those with the skill set to get involved

1)    Post a challenge

2)    Volunteers answers your questions

 

Skilled employees from best companies

Real business value 92% pick one company over another about how they feel abou them

Seti institute

Scientists speak in science speak, so seti posted a challenge,

Helped dial down 2 pages of science speak

First aid corps – graphic designers took 5 min, saved first aids hundreds of dollars

Jackson, mesi warrior in kenya

Well in my village, routed to san fran who had 3rd world water expertise, listed 20-30 miles away

Posted challenge all the way in sanfran, taking him back 20 miles away – from 5 minutes

Zak the yak –

Focus on skills based engagement

Free for non-profits

 

Jacob Colker Download MP3       Writes movies Hollywood way – teaches coorporate executives how to present In hollywood we tell our stories through pictures David putnam – road into hollywood on this fat horse called change Gave people chances to do what they really wanted to do And we had no money so it was really impossible 1)    Business 2)    Manage and ego 3)    Tell stories   Teach them – it’s all about them.. How do you get the sale – they like you, if they like you, because work is going to be dinner and on the phone, etc So the most important thing to do is be yourself Talk to people when you’re doing presentations like you talk to family Be interesting by caring what you talk about Talk in pictures People don’t make decisions in their head they make them in their gut… Memorable Repeatable Actionable Only goal – pull down the barriers between self and the people you’re talking to       Session 4:     Overlap – toronto group – has designers, mba’s michael runs it… Ontario college of art and design,  

Jacob Colker

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Writes movies

Hollywood way – teaches coorporate executives how to present

In hollywood we tell our stories through pictures

David putnam – road into hollywood on this fat horse called change

Gave people chances to do what they really wanted to do

And we had no money so it was really impossible

1)    Business

2)    Manage and ego

3)    Tell stories

 

Teach them – it’s all about them..

How do you get the sale – they like you, if they like you, because work is going to be dinner and on the phone, etc

So the most important thing to do is be yourself

Talk to people when you’re doing presentations like you talk to family

Be interesting by caring what you talk about

Talk in pictures

People don’t make decisions in their head they make them in their gut…

Memorable

Repeatable

Actionable

Only goal – pull down the barriers between self and the people you’re talking to

 

 

 

Session 4:

 

 

Overlap – toronto group – has designers, mba’s michael runs it…

Ontario college of art and design,

 

Fabien Cousteau Download MP3       Trump bif in 1 aspect Water connects every one of us Water is a phenomenal thing The one and only oasis in space 134 award winning awards -  jacque He would take me to place and say … let’s go see.. that infusion of curiosity.. Unearth some of the misteries of the world He also said, go and explore your own things to make sure this is what you want Once you stick your head under water, it’s hard to not keep going down 200000 people get certified every year Oceans don’t represent 72% of our planet – if we talk about living space, over 99% We’ve explored less than 5% of our oceans Be voyers if you will People have taken jaws a bit too seriously Great white shark Sharks are the flag bearers to the health of our oceans 220 some odd species, most are vegeterian There are 100’s of millions of sharks in the same places people swim Media has you think that happens every day Losing betweern 100 to 200 million sharks everywhere It’s all about the adventure Humpback wale – mammalian reflex – when water hits our face we calm down and are able to go deeper Ocean obsorbs up to 65% of our carbon emissions We have lost over 50% of our world fish stocks People protect what they love – jacques yves cousteau Tell stories It’s all about hope, if it was all logic, all would be lost Planting trees, why don’t we plant fish Plant a fish program Start seeing our oceans as a bank account 3 simple things we can do 1)    Seafood watch card – download and use this 2)    Stop carelessly dumping things down our drain, we are starting to eat our own garbage 3)    Be proactive, get informed, talk to your tribe, use sm, talk to your family, your businesses Casandra lin – that’s exactly why we need to do these things If we can empower them to take advantage of the things we have squandered At the end of the day , we’re all fish out o f water

Fabien Cousteau

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Trump bif in 1 aspect

Water connects every one of us

Water is a phenomenal thing

The one and only oasis in space

134 award winning awards -  jacque

He would take me to place and say … let’s go see.. that infusion of curiosity..

Unearth some of the misteries of the world

He also said, go and explore your own things to make sure this is what you want

Once you stick your head under water, it’s hard to not keep going down

200000 people get certified every year

Oceans don’t represent 72% of our planet – if we talk about living space, over 99%

We’ve explored less than 5% of our oceans

Be voyers if you will

People have taken jaws a bit too seriously

Great white shark

Sharks are the flag bearers to the health of our oceans

220 some odd species, most are vegeterian

There are 100’s of millions of sharks in the same places people swim

Media has you think that happens every day

Losing betweern 100 to 200 million sharks everywhere

It’s all about the adventure

Humpback wale – mammalian reflex – when water hits our face we calm down and are able to go deeper

Ocean obsorbs up to 65% of our carbon emissions

We have lost over 50% of our world fish stocks

People protect what they love – jacques yves cousteau

Tell stories

It’s all about hope, if it was all logic, all would be lost

Planting trees, why don’t we plant fish

Plant a fish program

Start seeing our oceans as a bank account

3 simple things we can do

1)    Seafood watch card – download and use this

2)    Stop carelessly dumping things down our drain, we are starting to eat our own garbage

3)    Be proactive, get informed, talk to your tribe, use sm, talk to your family, your businesses

Casandra lin – that’s exactly why we need to do these things

If we can empower them to take advantage of the things we have squandered

At the end of the day , we’re all fish out o f water

Ntiedo Etuk Download MP3       n-t educational video games 2.0 version oregon trail Computer engineer Math tutor in big bro big sisters What is the one big problem that if I could solve what make the biggest impact Engagement 90% of instruction still relies on textbook 61% find school boring Countries with highest boredome factor lowest achievement Kids play and fail, play longer and fail, completely self-motivated Ideas that sit behind the solution: 1)    How much culture invluences ed Personal freedoms that we take for granted, but what comes with that is the freedom to not take their ed seriously (coasting) japan, korea, india, us – haven’t found that unique thing that makes our kids want to get involved 2)    How much engagement and relevance inflluence His science teacher created quiz kids Drill and kill – that turned him on to science, Tricked me, got me engaged in studying by connecting it to something I love to do (really? Why trick?) I really like you but we never have any fun We don’t present critical info in a way they can get it(why do we decide it’s critical info) 3)    We don’t lack resources but resourcefulness Lack of an innovation twist It’s amazing how people can ignore you One innovation for ed – better teachers Charter schools are great, don’t know how to scale them 4 mill teachers to 53 mill kids, what percentage of 4 mill? Doesn’t scale   Postulate a solution If you have something wher e you need something scalable Imagine a world Next 10 yrs, billion virtual world users Ave age of game players 33 years old Every student wakes up and they’re part of a video game, you can’t hide You have to help the members of your team, find your friends , pick your curriculum, adaptive softward, move around, compete, collect points, System where kids want to help each other Points for help each other Start to have a movement, except completely driven by students Inmates are about to take over the asylum

Ntiedo Etuk

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n-t

educational video games

2.0 version oregon trail

Computer engineer

Math tutor in big bro big sisters

What is the one big problem that if I could solve what make the biggest impact

Engagement

90% of instruction still relies on textbook

61% find school boring

Countries with highest boredome factor lowest achievement

Kids play and fail, play longer and fail, completely self-motivated

Ideas that sit behind the solution:

1)    How much culture invluences ed

Personal freedoms that we take for granted, but what comes with that is the freedom to not take their ed seriously (coasting) japan, korea, india, us – haven’t found that unique thing that makes our kids want to get involved

2)    How much engagement and relevance inflluence

His science teacher created quiz kids

Drill and kill – that turned him on to science,

Tricked me, got me engaged in studying by connecting it to something I love to do (really? Why trick?)

I really like you but we never have any fun

We don’t present critical info in a way they can get it(why do we decide it’s critical info)

3)    We don’t lack resources but resourcefulness

Lack of an innovation twist

It’s amazing how people can ignore you

One innovation for ed – better teachers

Charter schools are great, don’t know how to scale them

4 mill teachers to 53 mill kids, what percentage of 4 mill? Doesn’t scale

 

Postulate a solution

If you have something wher e you need something scalable

Imagine a world

Next 10 yrs, billion virtual world users

Ave age of game players 33 years old

Every student wakes up and they’re part of a video game, you can’t hide

You have to help the members of your team, find your friends , pick your curriculum, adaptive softward, move around, compete, collect points,

System where kids want to help each other

Points for help each other

Start to have a movement, except completely driven by students

Inmates are about to take over the asylum

Jana Sue Memel       Important to start from what actually scales The challenge isn’t that people don’t desire to get people water. It’s because it’s costs a ton The way finance works. Individual action is necessary but insufficient Critical because we spend a ton of our money on hearts and minds Wht we need you to do is look at the cobenefits Coal is 2nd largest of user of water, hydro is worse because of evap from lakes Why allow a coal plant, If you want to do something.. protest the coal plant Go from 2 lanes on both sides, put in 10 lanes Website the other day, that is changing the face of urban planning in dc Sell 10 mill to us, 100 thousand are priusses What will get us to change in a massive way – now Greed works now… Billion dollars to get a climate bill in the us People fundamentally believe that today 1)    Not their problem – whatever we do – it’s not as important as saving the planet 50% of carbon problems have a profitable way to solve it We need your help. Stop bothering with the stuff that’s not going to solve the problem 1)    Get involved locally 2)    Quit hanging with govern 3)    Give people something they can do    

Jana Sue Memel

 

 

 

Important to start from what actually scales

The challenge isn’t that people don’t desire to get people water.

It’s because it’s costs a ton

The way finance works.

Individual action is necessary but insufficient

Critical because we spend a ton of our money on hearts and minds

Wht we need you to do is look at the cobenefits

Coal is 2nd largest of user of water, hydro is worse because of evap from lakes

Why allow a coal plant,

If you want to do something.. protest the coal plant

Go from 2 lanes on both sides, put in 10 lanes

Website the other day, that is changing the face of urban planning in dc

Sell 10 mill to us, 100 thousand are priusses

What will get us to change in a massive way – now

Greed works now…

Billion dollars to get a climate bill in the us

People fundamentally believe that today

1)    Not their problem – whatever we do – it’s not as important as saving the planet

50% of carbon problems have a profitable way to solve it

We need your help. Stop bothering with the stuff that’s not going to solve the problem

1)    Get involved locally

2)    Quit hanging with govern

3)    Give people something they can do

 

 

Carmen Medina Download MP3       1)    Is public perception of cia accurate and is it useful College debator, first in family to go to college – to become a lawyer, the only other thing I was interested in was the world, 1978, at lunch wander the halls looking for the other brown person, being a different thinker was harder than being a woman and a latino The agency is basically a knowledge organization, agency involves itself in covert action, says a lot about the ability of men and women to have forsight Endearing that cia was created – legalize sneaking around Cia is like the lindsay lohan of govern, everything we do is bad     2)    What is the motor that runs the world How you view this question tells you a lot about how the organization is viewed If you think dynamic forces are it, then we need organization to help actions that aren’t trying to hide The agency was built as if it was the first thing that’s true The internet came and what a problem for the agency Information is our business so that’s a theological question 20 of them – rebel alliance, bring in guest speakers to talk about change, how naïve Fell into trap of being synnical and negative Stop being uncomfortable being a heretic, that feeling of discomfort is what you need Combo of stick to it ed ness I believe in transparency – I love you carmen Only use collaborative tools only if you collaborative within The beaurocracy creates so many rules that they can’t keep track of all the rules Intelopedia I don’t believe in organizational change… I believe in people change No beurocracy, we all have to individually be beurocratic The only way we can keep track of the world evolving is if we are an open network a)    Men in smokey rooms b)    Large trends that manifest in world 3)    Are we the world When the cold war started we were 50% of the world economy Soon we are going to be only 10% of the world economy We can’t call the shots and spend money of defense strategies   Helping us understand this new era we are entering in Helping people understand the importance of transparency and collab   Don’t let yourself become synnical   Optimism is the greatest act of change Optimism is the greatest act of rebellion

Carmen Medina

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1)    Is public perception of cia accurate and is it useful

College debator, first in family to go to college – to become a lawyer, the only other thing I was interested in was the world, 1978, at lunch wander the halls looking for the other brown person, being a different thinker was harder than being a woman and a latino

The agency is basically a knowledge organization, agency involves itself in covert action, says a lot about the ability of men and women to have forsight

Endearing that cia was created – legalize sneaking around

Cia is like the lindsay lohan of govern, everything we do is bad

 

 

2)    What is the motor that runs the world

How you view this question tells you a lot about how the organization is viewed

If you think dynamic forces are it, then we need organization to help actions that aren’t trying to hide

The agency was built as if it was the first thing that’s true

The internet came and what a problem for the agency

Information is our business so that’s a theological question

20 of them – rebel alliance, bring in guest speakers to talk about change, how naïve

Fell into trap of being synnical and negative

Stop being uncomfortable being a heretic, that feeling of discomfort is what you need

Combo of stick to it ed ness

I believe in transparency – I love you carmen

Only use collaborative tools only if you collaborative within

The beaurocracy creates so many rules that they can’t keep track of all the rules

Intelopedia

I don’t believe in organizational change… I believe in people change

No beurocracy, we all have to individually be beurocratic

The only way we can keep track of the world evolving is if we are an open network

a)    Men in smokey rooms

b)    Large trends that manifest in world

3)    Are we the world

When the cold war started we were 50% of the world economy

Soon we are going to be only 10% of the world economy

We can’t call the shots and spend money of defense strategies

 

Helping us understand this new era we are entering in

Helping people understand the importance of transparency and collab

 

Don’t let yourself become synnical

 

Optimism is the greatest act of change

Optimism is the greatest act of rebellion

Keith Yamashita Download MP3       ibm Is it worth daring to be great? Each of us come from a null set hypothesis – We believe we are in a world of every onward   y=x Then along comes shock   y=-x New abnormal, new para normal My answer starts with these: Grew up in orange county ca, happy childhood Zoom out smog film This was a shocking revelation There’s who we are then outside of that then outside of that then …. [dang this guy knows how to present] Got a bunch of guys about to turn blue Dad was an engineer on the apollo project, engineer and psychologist Grew up with a dad who’s job was to put the man on the moon When you grow up in a house with all the sketches and calcs, etc You start to believe that anything was possible Is it worth it to dare to be great Answer has  a lot to do with families and beginnings The center – you Is where it starts Kids are born to greatness, it’s not some deficit you have to fill to become great All kids start great, we unlearn greatness, we suppress it, Kids start in a perfect curious package Imagination, ideas and curiosity What it takes to be great: Being fully aware and fully alive When the rest of the world is going to tell you no It’s whether you are up for the journey to be fully aware fully alive Why is that importatn Because it’s rarely an individual act It’s about duos, that chemistry allows you to do great things Charles and ray eams – represent what he means by duos Who is that in your life that you have inherit trust, even if they are opposite to you Being in a duo is a super scary thing Trusting so deeply you can create together remarkable things, what neither of you can create on your own The japan society (check it out) about the quiet lens Interview innovators for 2 weeks I trust you implicity to do a terrific job and come back with what you learned It opened up this great relization about what innovation is about It’s not about each of them, it’s about us Think about the duos in your life, the invitations you extend, how many you pass up Dualship happens every single day The ability to be great is staring your right in the face The only way to make things happen, you need teams, duos are the greates thing to make it happne Trust only happens with duos Challenging the status quo, to create a new future   Create teams that are built on duos that can actively go after that status quo and do what’s right   It takes: Systems thinking and creativity   Almost all the challenges are systemic challenges We have the power to do it – we just have to harness it   Keep zooming out   You, duos, team, organization Ending the tyranny of the false trade-off   Paul girly – everything has to be optimized We often suboptimize – with an either or mentality There are hard trade-offs – but you don’t have to make false ones Often there are better choices than the first choice   First brand fellow of ibm Help the world build smarter cities   There’s so much more all of us can give to this solution   Representative of the next passion we have to embrace The systemic strategy that ends the tyranny of the false trade off     2x2  X axis resource Y axis possibility   Infinite possibility with finite resource is where there might be hope upper left   Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but rfk   We have no other choice than to try to be great.    

Keith Yamashita

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ibm

Is it worth daring to be great?

Each of us come from a null set hypothesis –

We believe we are in a world of every onward   y=x

Then along comes shock   y=-x

New abnormal, new para normal

My answer starts with these:

Grew up in orange county ca, happy childhood

Zoom out smog film

This was a shocking revelation

There’s who we are then outside of that then outside of that then ….

[dang this guy knows how to present]

Got a bunch of guys about to turn blue

Dad was an engineer on the apollo project, engineer and psychologist

Grew up with a dad who’s job was to put the man on the moon

When you grow up in a house with all the sketches and calcs, etc You start to believe that anything was possible

Is it worth it to dare to be great

Answer has  a lot to do with families and beginnings

The center – you

Is where it starts

Kids are born to greatness, it’s not some deficit you have to fill to become great

All kids start great, we unlearn greatness, we suppress it,

Kids start in a perfect curious package

Imagination, ideas and curiosity

What it takes to be great:

Being fully aware and fully alive

When the rest of the world is going to tell you no

It’s whether you are up for the journey to be fully aware fully alive

Why is that importatn

Because it’s rarely an individual act

It’s about duos, that chemistry allows you to do great things

Charles and ray eams – represent what he means by duos

Who is that in your life that you have inherit trust, even if they are opposite to you

Being in a duo is a super scary thing

Trusting so deeply you can create together remarkable things, what neither of you can create on your own

The japan society (check it out) about the quiet lens

Interview innovators for 2 weeks

I trust you implicity to do a terrific job and come back with what you learned

It opened up this great relization about what innovation is about

It’s not about each of them, it’s about us

Think about the duos in your life, the invitations you extend, how many you pass up

Dualship happens every single day

The ability to be great is staring your right in the face

The only way to make things happen, you need teams, duos are the greates thing to make it happne

Trust only happens with duos

Challenging the status quo, to create a new future

 

Create teams that are built on duos that can actively go after that status quo and do what’s right

 

It takes:

Systems thinking and creativity

 

Almost all the challenges are systemic challenges

We have the power to do it – we just have to harness it

 

Keep zooming out

 

You, duos, team, organization

Ending the tyranny of the false trade-off

 

Paul girly – everything has to be optimized

We often suboptimize – with an either or mentality

There are hard trade-offs – but you don’t have to make false ones

Often there are better choices than the first choice

 

First brand fellow of ibm

Help the world build smarter cities

 

There’s so much more all of us can give to this solution

 

Representative of the next passion we have to embrace

The systemic strategy that ends the tyranny of the false trade off

 

 

2x2 

X axis resource

Y axis possibility

 

Infinite possibility with finite resource is where there might be hope upper left

 

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but rfk

 

We have no other choice than to try to be great.

 

 

Friday at BIF hq’s

Saul and Len…

 

If you are going to make change.. you had better be good at storytelling

The reason we can’t tell you a story is because nothing has changed, we leave everything to assumptions.

 

[add notes from book and back of packet.]

 

Partnership with 20 schools

Global

Within 5-6 years – most robust archive and the methodology to be able to scale it

I didn’t have communities I had groups

I didn’t have business models I had strategies

There isn’t a concept here that we haven’t already known for 40 years

Bob kaplan – compares for profit and non profit communities

1)    Creative construction is always at work in big countries on a global scale

But there’s only an overlap of about 2 firms

There’s something going on

In nonprofits virtually no innovation

2)    Tweaks to transformations – there are degrees of change that goes on in all forms of organization

What happened to the march of dimes when they found a cure for polio – they said – let’s go find another disease

Not all this innovation is all that good

Bottom 3 boxes all about doing something good

Most comfortable place to play

Line up task,

1965 – the more differentiation existed – the more complex the mechanisms need to be

The politics of integrations that you need to create, to get anything done politically often out weighs the ability to get things done

This isn’t abou t good or bad

He says he’s not going to go up against the reliability oriented world

Given cognitive limitations and structure

 

Structure – dartmouth friend – the only way to do meaningful is to hire it off, it can’t be done inside large organization, hive it off then the real thing is to connect it back in

Traditional large organizations are systemactically not able to make transformation happen

 

 

There’s a problem of desire

Check out zip car

His answers from other people:

Market research

Buy trucks van

 

Expensive, risky, no barriers to entry  - but start of uhaul – check out sam

He had huge passion, bought orange paint because he had no money and no one wanted the orange paint

He said there’s no better way to solve a problem then to assert it – so he woke up and announced it would go all over the world

So sam asserted it and no one ever challenged it

 

How do we use this model – of u-haul to get a model of mass distribution

People were pulled by the gravitational pull of the incentive

 

Whether you’re doing it yourself or in a big company – it just doesn’t look like a good idea… it’s just a hell of a business

 

Innovators want to be defined as risky, etc – that sets up these myths:

Defines people like sam as superman

Starbucks – 23 years of decline in coffee sales, coke/pepsi caught up to coffee

First on – after italy – menu in italian, opera, etc.. lasted short.. realized – it really wasn’t about the coffee

 

We say you have the idea? Blow it out into a business plan of 75 pages, data, capital, because someone in the venture community might look at this.

 

The price is so high – you have to really really want to do it

 

On your own – different framework, with explosion of business plan competition, most are doing them full blown on really dumb ideas

 

How do you keep doing innovation without dumb ideas.. stop doing business plans

1)

2) produces to high a commitment to a risky/bad idea

 

How do you reconstruct the process of innovation

1)    Have to be interested in it enough to produce a high level of energy

2)    What’s the methodology for figuring out an idea that is 30% done and get it to closure

Start and take a step

Step creates the evidence to get to the next step

Basic step small wins

3)    Risk – affordable loss vs expected return

The notion of being able to calculate expected return is a waste of time

It’s a problem of desire – how badly do I want to take that step

Think through a worst case scenario – are you still willing

If you’ve decide what your stop loss is and you live to it risk and uncertainty are completely irrelevant

All of us can do it.. just have to decide how badly you want it..

Cost of experimentation is cheap

Reasonably frictionless environment

Why not play

We have no formal ed process to engage these people

 

This stuff is so simple

Herb simon, sarah srafone, peter jarkes

Entrepreneurship is a method

 

Ways to enlist people:

a)    Sell them

Tangible transfrom/exchange of goods

b)    Enroll them

Friends, etc

 

You need both, only thing is they all need to buy in

Has to start in blue until someone can pay for orange

 

They all come with voice and resources, then you see the idea is becoming strikingly different than the idea you started with

 

Rather than look for funding – what if you sold something, what if you tried to move it along on a bootstrap

Take action as source of innovatoin rather than accumulatig resources

Tired of  people who are saying their inability to act – lack of resource

It’s not lack of resources, but lack of resourcefulness

 

We can say – that’s a deviation fo the plan – let’s get back to it

Or we can say – that’s interesting… new info – what do we do with it

 

 

u-haul’s model is there

find people who care

license people to actually play

 

 

 

bilingual – being able to play in reliability world and validity world

best way to learn a language – find a partner

 

you looking for a structural answer – there isn’t one

 

the way to take the scariness out – establish mechanisms for people to actually take steps and learn

license experimentation consciously

 

a master at the adjacencies

I can’t change at the speed I want what’s going on in, but I can create the adjacency and then expose my organization to it and maybe they will like it

 

There’s a problem of reasoning

 

 

How difficult to take the skunk work change and get it into the organization

What about p&g

50% of all new products will come from w/o organization

Open market innovation , completely changed the infrastructure

Ibm and p&g – both were going to fail – is that what made them change

Is that the only way –

 

Clearly necessary but not always sufficient

 

Mechanism is the uncertainty

Am I able

Am I willing

 

Strikingly unsatisfactory answer to a defined institution

 

Action sports  - have people that really care about what they do

Stimulating action –

When you don’t know things don’t subsitute enthusiasm

If I think of all my assets as liabilities I will lose because I’m going to war – defense

 

I don’t worry about my ability to defend

But to transfrom – I do penince by doing what I do on a global scale

The mechanism for innovation is to guarantee the ongoing protection of the original institution

 

Dang – just like us

Who are folks in organization that want to play

It’s not good and bad –

 

Adjacency serves as the r&d

 

Now when others are ready for something new – the lab has that

A neutral r& d platform

 

If you make sure we’re always number one – you get freedom

If you’re interested do great…  if not – do this

 

Also be experimental on how we do customer service

 

Takes senior level and adjacent platforms

 

To much of this work is projects… we need a sustainable platform for experimentation

 

Bob kaplan’s article on creative deconstruction

 

Without lectures/books/theories on innovation – innovation happens

It’s natural

 

Faculty centric institutions – if you don’t love who faculty are and what they do – you will be at war from the get go and you will lose

 

Deep love and respect for the fact that you can’t get there without them

airport chatter

Snippets from great convo with @NabilHarfoush

in the Providence airport Friday afternoon.

 

Via Nabil:

On learning:

Learning is so much about emotion.

That 30 sec of Keith’s strong emotion that you sensed it was genuine – I learned more than I ever have – about community and connections and learning.

I have a hypothesis about emotional learning.

Commercials have the emotion thing down.

Learning is about modeling. A mother teaching an eagle to fly.

Best way to start a movement to show/find something people are emotional about.

 

On digital equity and scaling:

We should offer resources not manage them

We’re giving resources but not very relevant stuff

If you add local resources,

It’s not that the resources aren’t there

We end up depriving them of the resources that are there

G8 – 3000 meals a day for 8 leaders to get together

Fiji waters – people in fiji cannot drink their own water

 

How do you help movements take off

If we can help movements spread – and they can’t be owned

Make sure that no one owns it

Two things needed for a movement  (earl)

1)    Has to be very visible

2)    Easily copyable

 

Apple’s ear buds are white – visible and cheap

 

3rd world countries are starting to aspire at our intoxication

working on detox.. for most all of us.

Friday at BIF hq’s
airport chatter

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