tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53566907589294975722024-03-13T06:02:42.758-07:00Eddie Obeng's blogcyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-33500169263463215552024-02-27T01:51:00.000-08:002024-02-27T01:51:40.459-08:00Artificial Intelligence RIP<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpWKP3xYx4WIqwdv3uvBtbf8VPIggkIaQGpnYRLAtEfBCh_OViDJzUSMSkclXxZMgRFiB5xzXHTOmnWulpEa55lzV0TKAljjVVSeGJ9JwU5lyOfs8_JiWvM1d9rmH8HMP9RQj9uCY53PqNftXw6ejjtpqLxw8mxy6FUBkSLmv-v3hz6_WUHQSsBE45GVw/s1830/AI%20RIP%20wide.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1830" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpWKP3xYx4WIqwdv3uvBtbf8VPIggkIaQGpnYRLAtEfBCh_OViDJzUSMSkclXxZMgRFiB5xzXHTOmnWulpEa55lzV0TKAljjVVSeGJ9JwU5lyOfs8_JiWvM1d9rmH8HMP9RQj9uCY53PqNftXw6ejjtpqLxw8mxy6FUBkSLmv-v3hz6_WUHQSsBE45GVw/w679-h361/AI%20RIP%20wide.png" width="679" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br /></span></p><p><span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Q.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>When is a strong organisational culture a recipe for disaster?</i></span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember52" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">A.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>When it is set within a bubble!</i></span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember53" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">Today Alphabet stock fell dramatically. I'm old enough to remember being inspired by the slogan, "</span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Don't be evil</span><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">". It was central to positioning the DARPA funded start-up, Google, as a credible source of the truth. I also pay attention so I noticed when it was quietly dropped and Alphabet was created.</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember55" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">If you are paying attention you could not miss the clown car that is Google Gemini. The promised Artificial intelligence that has been or soon will be integrated into all alphabet products from youtube to gmail to chrome search.</span></p><blockquote><blockquote class="ember-view" id="ember57" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border-left: .4rem solid var(--color-brand-accent-4); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-brand-accent-4); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-display-small); line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding-left: 1.6rem; quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Don't Be Evil.</blockquote></blockquote><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember58" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">We, as humans, anthropomorphise everything. We also are sense making machines - Try this - 'Msto poelpe wilil fnid tshi esay ot cmprehdne - These two factors are why we think ChatGPT is cooler than it actually is - We are awed by Ai until we see pictures where hands have 12 or 7 fingers and then we realise its limitations.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember59" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Pictures make the not obvious PLAINLY obvious</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember60" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-four-x); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><figure class="reader-image-block__figure" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-image-view-model " style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper
display-flex" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex !important; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="" class="ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view" id="ember61" loading="lazy" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQHe3JnVmjznGA/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1709026032403?e=1714608000&v=beta&t=wjaHufwWdYNyTVOhpwuV_vJzQfhxfADxo-fuARnz5fs" style="background-position: 50% center; background-size: cover; border-radius: 0px; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; object-position: center center; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); width: 720px;" /></div></div><figcaption class="display-block mt2 full-width text-body-small-open t-sans text-align-center t-black--light" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text-low-emphasis); display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-family: var(--artdeco-typography-sans); font-size: var(--font-size-small); font-weight: var(--font-weight-regular); line-height: var(--line-height-open); margin-top: 0.8rem !important; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: center !important; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); width: 720px;">This was eventually solved not by the neural network itself but by adding more training layers (by humans) to filter out unreal images) Hmm<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember62" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember63" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">We also can't help but meddle. We prefer fairy tales to bald facts. We embellish versions until we love them - Much is innocent but just as deadly - like training AI not to use profane language means many emotions and human reactions get deleted and situations get impossible to understand - and so all Ai gets tweaked to give the answers we 'prefer'.</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember64" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">The images from Gemini are what happens when a strong culture exists in a bubble. It is a product form one of the richest and most powerful businesses in the world - it was presented with fanfare. It would haven been tested, checked and more. BUT..</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember66" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">But when you have a strong culture everyone aligns and no one dissents - The culture at Google is strong, we know that - and we know it is a progressive</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#ESG</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#DEI</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">driven culture. Polls consistently show that over 90% of their staff vote</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">exactly<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">the same way.</span></p><div class="reader-image-block reader-image-block--resize" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-four-x); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><figure class="reader-image-block__figure" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-image-view-model " style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper
display-flex" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex !important; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="" class="ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view" id="ember68" loading="lazy" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQHrw9uyIzT0fA/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1709026143606?e=1714608000&v=beta&t=RN16cL_6gQhNq9n7XkqabvjGmWQZsn8T-F1gLF6uDdg" style="background-position: 50% center; background-size: cover; border-radius: 0px; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); display: block; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 432px; object-fit: cover; object-position: center center; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div></div><figcaption class="display-block mt2 full-width text-body-small-open t-sans text-align-center t-black--light" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text-low-emphasis); display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-family: var(--artdeco-typography-sans); font-size: var(--font-size-small); font-weight: var(--font-weight-regular); line-height: var(--line-height-open); margin-top: 0.8rem !important; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: center !important; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); width: 720px;">Equal opportunity SS ;-)</figcaption></figure></div><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember69" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember70" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And when people in that culture only talk to 'like-minded' people within the same bubble, objective reality is invisible to them. Their beliefs and ideology rule everything and its correct, of course it is because 'everyone says so and agrees.</p><blockquote><blockquote class="ember-view" id="ember71" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border-left: .4rem solid var(--color-brand-accent-4); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-brand-accent-4); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-display-small); line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding-left: 1.6rem; quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Alphabet is faced with famous the 'barrel of milk conundrum'.</blockquote></blockquote><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember72" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">You can proudly release a product you perceive as gold trophy winning but in reality that only bluebottles and dung beetles appreciate, unaware that the rest of the world sees it for what it is, a stinking pile.</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember73" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-large);">And now, knowing that this unreal truth twisting gibberish is integrated into many of the product yo are using daily and as you begin to question your uncritical response to search and other google products, Alphabet is faced with famous the 'barrel of milk conundrum'. And now you know the same is true for Microsoft, Grok, etc. etc. It's just not as obvious.</span></p><blockquote><blockquote class="ember-view" id="ember75" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border-left: .4rem solid var(--color-brand-accent-4); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-brand-accent-4); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-display-small); line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding-left: 1.6rem; quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">You can proudly release a product you perceive as gold trophy winning but in reality that only bluebottles and dung beetles appreciate, unaware that the rest of the world sees it for what it is, a stinking pile.</blockquote></blockquote><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember76" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Q.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>Imagine this. If you add a teaspoon full of milk form a barrel to stinking pile and what have you got?</i></span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember77" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">A.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>A barrel of milk and a stinking pile.</i></span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember78" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Now try what Google have done.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember79" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Q.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>Imagine this. If you add a teaspoon full from a stinking pile to a barrel of milk what have you got?</i></span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember80" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">A.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Two stinking piles!</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></i></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember81" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember82" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">+ + + + + + + + + + + +</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember83" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Q.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>The future of #AI?</i></span></b></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember85" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">A.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>It's going to be grim.</i></span></b></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember86" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-size: var(--font-size-display-medium); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold);">Forget Artificial. Come and experience REAL Human Intelligence, laughter, camaraderie and massive productivity on our QUBE campus.</span><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember88" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><a class="app-aware-link " data-test-app-aware-link="" href="https://qube.cc/Register" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_self">https://QUBE.cc/Register</a><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember89" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><a class="app-aware-link " data-test-app-aware-link="" href="mailto:qube@PentacleTheVBS.com" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_self">mailto:qube@PentacleTheVBS.com</a><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-75103048337459966662024-01-26T11:03:00.000-08:002024-01-26T11:09:46.136-08:00When the phones were dumb & tethered the people were smart and free<p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1IKk3DtaXXA57uuZMb-T8etJOvr8fro3oSjt9nAbjWxpFYPA1xH6IhV2oo_jHFd1oKLGj0_TeLq4tQIY5H2HIIvev-h9owg7IInRDlq8QVn_-4Iao66vu3TLTn0eIMsVC94lrfDC2XZSUPsb6D6xoPimHnPxywoNfDiKIB1_i6otnxU3KbUWiDvkChPOI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="680" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1IKk3DtaXXA57uuZMb-T8etJOvr8fro3oSjt9nAbjWxpFYPA1xH6IhV2oo_jHFd1oKLGj0_TeLq4tQIY5H2HIIvev-h9owg7IInRDlq8QVn_-4Iao66vu3TLTn0eIMsVC94lrfDC2XZSUPsb6D6xoPimHnPxywoNfDiKIB1_i6otnxU3KbUWiDvkChPOI=w409-h403" width="409" /></a></div><br /> <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">So, </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">"My name is Eddie Obeng and I'm a 'phonaholic'."</span><p></p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">In 1993 I got my first mobile phone. No it wasn't a brick. It was a SONY CM111. It was brilliant. It was convenient. It was productive. I could bring dynamism to client relationships. Best thing ever except the battery life was a bit limited so I had to keep checking on it. I had to keep it constantly fed and watered. It was like looking after a baby. But I loved it so I didn't care. </span><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I took it everywhere, always. Perhaps a bit like you do today.</span><br /></span></span><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">In 1994 I sat on it and broke it and it was sent off for repair. Repairs took a month. In that time and I went through 'cold turkey' - cramps sweats anger.. the lot.</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">When it returned I'd broken my addiction - until 2007 with my new iPhone 1, I felt it taking possession of me again. I got rid of it straight away and now do not possess a 'smart phone' so unfortunately.</span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">All the time I was addicted to my phone I had no inkling that I was. <span style="color: #cc0000;">All the time the phone possessed me I was deliriously happy and content. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I look on the world and the mass addiction - it reminds me of the times when everyone smoked and it was normal. Every encounter seems to end with them showing you an image on the tiny screen they are carrying that you can't see without your glasses. But they neither notice nor care that it is just a blur to you. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Every trip involves them texting, what's-apping people who are not present with low quality descriptions of the experience topped off with a picture or short, no-context video recording.</span></span></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">But as I do not possess a smart phone, I have not been able to participate in the mass hypnosis, psychosis and mental takeover I seem to see around me. </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 14px;">There is no utility in the action of filming. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Fira Sans, Ubuntu, Oxygen, Oxygen Sans, Cantarell, Droid Sans, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">None of your friends are interested. No point in watching it later... what will you gain? These people have been reduced to programmable potential by who ever controls mass behaviour or makes suggestions on their devices. They seek to get unearned virtue but can't so they virtue signal by showing they participated and and purpose and meaning in their lives by showing they are in the cool places doing cool things. </span></span></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I wish I was on the inside so I could analyse it better but...</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Are you on the inside? </span><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Are you an addict? </span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Or can you stop using your phone anytime you want? Leave it at home and stay calm?</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Sure, all addicts say that - I should know.</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;" /></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i>When the phones were dumb & tethered the people were smart and free</i></b></span></div></div></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9AI8SWpR_eaRQoOmGyX2UlmejWpQM1HIkO0qE8xk5TLMDakoYvV2tD53eYATln1n-_EKOqAwLui9u3pc7hsu83gBGSu6IjPqFiUcxdu-FT2wwBponU89eM1omPSFsCRc_hyw5sZqXJtoUu-nWfR5gkMOAo4-P2m83OGd_cg3E57lbuuKbXNh5ALaxy49a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9AI8SWpR_eaRQoOmGyX2UlmejWpQM1HIkO0qE8xk5TLMDakoYvV2tD53eYATln1n-_EKOqAwLui9u3pc7hsu83gBGSu6IjPqFiUcxdu-FT2wwBponU89eM1omPSFsCRc_hyw5sZqXJtoUu-nWfR5gkMOAo4-P2m83OGd_cg3E57lbuuKbXNh5ALaxy49a=w456-h257" width="456" /></a></div><br /><br /></i></b></span></div>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-4748111468751846612023-12-16T07:45:00.000-08:002023-12-17T07:49:49.460-08:00How Artificial Intelligence filled the Skills Gap<p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p><p>It’s a cold evening in November 2024 and I’m hailing a cab outside the Association for Professional Managers offices where I’ve just attended a party to mark the end of the Association. It had to close because applications for Professional certification had fallen by 99.83% and practically no organisation is hiring project managers or program leaders. The slump has hit project software, training and skills providers. And sales of my books have ceased! I mutter, ‘Nothing good lasts forever’, to myself as I climb into the cab. </p><p>I keep reading how artificial intelligence is so skilled it will replace humans and take most of our jobs. We’ll have to pay people to sit at home in their pyjamas and play computer games as there’ll be nothing for them to do. </p><p>And I keep reading how there is a massive skills gap in project management that can only be filled through significant investment and training.</p><p>Parker and Hart’s cartoon, The King is a Fink, has the King on the castle ramparts. First messenger announces, “Sire, the moat monsters are starving”. Second messenger, “Sire, the peasants are without water”. The King smirks thinking to himself cunning king thinks to himself, ‘We may be able to work this one out yet!’</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh63Turk3Ib1XK3ViM72vJqAjVPrmwtFDpQonJmPE0wq2ImN-7Y55xowYgoHsw35vdmKC1zH7L34KQEpesIvn8FFykyDayTh-6XeKrR8hYiaXQBsHsrGX6xJug_Q00z7eb6vy4p-ZgXVOzWHltO8Ta3-CRwdaCp-Nzo9pphDRydqC2lRkH8usaET3MjnZP/s178/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="124" data-original-width="178" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh63Turk3Ib1XK3ViM72vJqAjVPrmwtFDpQonJmPE0wq2ImN-7Y55xowYgoHsw35vdmKC1zH7L34KQEpesIvn8FFykyDayTh-6XeKrR8hYiaXQBsHsrGX6xJug_Q00z7eb6vy4p-ZgXVOzWHltO8Ta3-CRwdaCp-Nzo9pphDRydqC2lRkH8usaET3MjnZP/w437-h305/download.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><p></p><p>But is it so simple?</p><p>The Science of Management is often depicted as a body of knowledge. An encyclopaedia of facts & skills to be learnt and understood. Everything from managing people, to developing strategies to avoiding risk to creating and tracking plans for value delivered. The MBA represents the checklist of current topics </p><p>Meanwhile self-made millionaire and billionaire entrepreneurs seem to have discovered an Art of Management which seems to be a mostly is a set of soft skills unavailable in the standard MBA.</p><p>Everyone knows what Artificial intelligence (AI) is, or at least they claim to. It’s this amazing way of providing answers faster and more comprehensively and with out as many grammatical mistakes. </p><p>We can work this out yet. ‘Train’ AI on the Management Body of Knowledge and a bunch of top selling Leadership books and CEO autobiographies and it will know all there is to know about managing organisations.. Train it in a live active organisation, on it's powerpoints and spreadsheets and it will provide management information during a strategy development and implementation and it will guide and prioritise what is to be done by whom, when. In short it will have better skills than humans, with our incomplete overview and propensity to forget stuff. Provide AI to a semi-literate school leaver and their senior level management delivery will surpass a 30-year certified veteran.</p><p>So is it time to hang up your dreams of a career? Is it time to hang up your manager boots and shred your professional certifications?</p><p>Artificial Intelligence is misnamed. Artifice refers to the mimicry of real human neurones in the neural networks constructed to run the calculations. </p><p>We humans can’t help ourselves. We imagine we know what our pets are thinking. We even imagine we know what inanimate objects are plotting – like your phone running out of power just to spite you. In short, we anthropomorphise everything. So, when we can communicate with a system that replies in sentences or pictures, we can’t help be fooled. We’re certain it’s an advanced intelligence to rival ours.</p><p>But in the same way as your skinny latte with oat-milk isn’t a ‘latte’. Why? Because there’s no milk in it. It can’t be milk because you can’t ‘milk’ an oat! AI says ‘intelligence’ on the tin but it’s not intelligence. AI is just fast and comprehensive computational iteration of interpolation within the data training set with the odd side-order of hallucination. </p><p>Popular incarnations like ChatGPT V rely on our ‘word thinking’ to interpret the amazingly accessible answers it provides. There is no body and no mind in AI. It can tell you the words, ‘bananas taste delicious’, but it has no idea what a banana is nor does it have tastebuds. I cannot peel one either.</p><p>I define ‘Movie’ projects as projects where the method or technology is decided upon before the goal is established. Today, the vastly lowered cost of graphics cards that are lightning-fast at solving four dimensional matrices, has made the decades-old idea of machine-learning available as modern AI. And so, in AI we have a movie project, ‘A solution looking for a problem’.</p><p>What solutions fit this new and amazing capability?</p><p>I don’t claim to know where AI will find its home. But I would advise that you begin with your real problems and see if AI fits, rather than the jumping on the hype wagon and trying to apply it ‘somewhere’. </p><p>And I would suggest that there are two types of problem it would be unwise to delegate to AI. The first is mission critical decisions not overseen by a human. Why? Because it’s impossible to know when the AI will get things wrong and if it does, why it did, as it has no mind, memory or morals. The second is activities that require embodiment – like project leadership.</p><p>Management and leadership are practical activities. You have to peel the banana to eat it.</p><p>It’s easy to imagine an AI linked to an earpiece, suggesting real-time management options. Definitely AI may fill the skills gap and help us master more repetitive activities with clear goals and methods. But then leadership will take on a bigger influence over success of projects.</p><p>Leadership arises from the combination of thinking, emotions, behaviour and actions. It’s how you engage the dodgy contractor not to leave you in a mess and get the programmer to write at an inspiring pace, how you persuade self-obsessed senior managers to pay attention. Leadership is seeing outside the data set for insights creativity, human endeavour based on relationships. And that, so far, is a human domain.</p><p>So, keep going. Build skills be active and creative. Demonstrate knowledge and capability through successful delivery. Most of all master the Art of Management. Even if AI nibbles at the Science, it might be a while before your unique leadership comes under any competition at all. </p><p>And with any luck I’ll never have to hail that cab! </p><div><br /></div>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-44707988030655882402023-05-31T12:48:00.000-07:002023-05-31T12:48:12.297-07:00Hands up if you get meeting FOMO<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmcetPySDmpUDq0NEfYEu2aCUlmatwy2rQDcU9K0cC11qL6Jn8oghexfp4A6RFP3NS68Szz1OyfDgwXVQM3C-LuYkgsHgI4c79hgudmGxJ-Ka_ejs0NTa2EeWPGzlvf3ivpM8P7kFR9XLW2otkCMx6oUj1SXFdalHeULBI9MNjv_1a00x0dkIQbdl4A/s752/1685537599285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="752" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmcetPySDmpUDq0NEfYEu2aCUlmatwy2rQDcU9K0cC11qL6Jn8oghexfp4A6RFP3NS68Szz1OyfDgwXVQM3C-LuYkgsHgI4c79hgudmGxJ-Ka_ejs0NTa2EeWPGzlvf3ivpM8P7kFR9XLW2otkCMx6oUj1SXFdalHeULBI9MNjv_1a00x0dkIQbdl4A/w651-h260/1685537599285.jpg" width="651" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large);"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large);">It's been a week for calls. New clients, existing clients, people seeking help, looking for answers and a common thread runs through all of the conversations. </span></p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">"We have no time"</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">"We are always in meetings"</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">"There are more meetings than ever before and I don't know when I'll get the work done"</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">"The culture needs to change to stop all these meetings"</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">This happened to me (Quentin not Eddie) when I worked in a big organisation. I was at meetings<span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"> all</span> the time. Often having no clear role or responsibility, often saying little (this is how you know it's Quentin talking and <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">not</span> Eddie!) and often coming away with no action. The meetings were, more often than not, talking shops that always ran over time (like paper never refuses ink, time never refuses one last opinion and counter opinion). I rarely came away with any new information either. And so I stopped going to a lot of meetings. At first I sent apologies. And then I just stopped getting asked. And there was zero negative impact on the organisation. No balls were dropped, no activities not completed. In fact more got done because suddenly I had all of this time to actually get on and do things that lead to real change. No one more senior made this decision. I did it myself and I reduced my meetings by a good 50%. If I got it wrong and needed to be at something someone would soon tell me and I'd make sure I went to the next meeting for that particular thing. This happened once and once only.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And so if you have this problem I have one question. Who do you think is going to make the decision to reduce all the meetings you are at? </p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">It's a question very few of those I talk to have asked of themselves. Their response, when asked, is often that they expect someone else, more senior, will come along and make the decision but until then this is how it is. </p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And so I'm curious. When did we stop making decisions for ourselves in the workplace? When did we outsource all of our working day to someone else? Because this is a systemic challenge I'm careful what I say next because I don't want to make that person feel like it's their fault. But there is, I think, a time when we all have to step up, take responsibility for ourselves and make some decisions based on the right answer. </p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">So I then ask them to think about a meeting that burns a lot of time and isn't particularly useful. I use a slightly adapted 5Ps <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/pet" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#PET</a>:</p><div class="reader-image-block reader-image-block--resize" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: var(--spacing-four-x); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><figure class="reader-image-block__figure" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-image-view-model " style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex
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box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><li style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">What is the <span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">purpose</span><span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"> </span>of the meeting?</li><li style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">What are the <span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">principles</span><span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"> </span>/decision points that will be made in the meeting?</li><li style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Who are the <span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">people</span> in the meeting and more importantly what is your role in the meeting (chair, decision maker, expert voice, representative), or are you there to make sure you don't miss out on anything (I call this meeting FOMO).</li><li style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">What is the <span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">process</span> you will follow in the meeting? For example, are you providing information/updates, are you needed to answer specific questions, are you a decision maker, what action will you have/take as a result of the meeting?</li><li style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And finally. The most important part. What does <span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">performance</span>/success, for you, at that meeting, look like? What will you have achieved by attending? Or more importantly what won't happen if you don't go? </li></ul><p></p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">If the answer to that last question is nothing. Then ask yourself why you need to be there. </p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">If you organise meetings you should probably do the same for those you invite. Are you inviting them so they don't feel left out or do they have an actual purpose for being there and if they're not there what's the thing that won't happen? And if you do this well there will be people left out who might have meeting FOMO - so let them know why they don't need to be there. Let them know you are gifting them their time back.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Don't wait for someone else to decide how you spend your day. Make what you do purposeful and lead to outcomes. You'll suddenly find you not only have more time, but will also have more energy and motivation to do some of the good stuff.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Competition time - let's see who can reduce their meeting attendance the most.</p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-6456282628313560222022-09-13T00:57:00.001-07:002022-09-13T00:58:30.657-07:00Not My Stakeholders<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQMqoCpGviU1gXTp5SCoAbIB90tEqfOg4S3pW1PoKc_6K882jtyOdwd1m0wcj5AI-OPL4BgRO5rzhJYY2Vk9iqeOF22v2exMhJcC83PYHY07c6hlAONZc2wq6_ITlvOBoiAZ5Px4VFrvO5taNNVfd-JqpcPI4mNic3pIFHm7mH5wVMeAfbaS5vbWdZw/s979/50878737_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="979" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQMqoCpGviU1gXTp5SCoAbIB90tEqfOg4S3pW1PoKc_6K882jtyOdwd1m0wcj5AI-OPL4BgRO5rzhJYY2Vk9iqeOF22v2exMhJcC83PYHY07c6hlAONZc2wq6_ITlvOBoiAZ5Px4VFrvO5taNNVfd-JqpcPI4mNic3pIFHm7mH5wVMeAfbaS5vbWdZw/w563-h282/50878737_s.jpg" width="563" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge);"><b><i>Customer-centric enterprises excel.</i></b></span></div><p></p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">My country, the United Kingdom in the midst of grief, a change of monarch, cost of living rises and the remnants of the terror of covid have decided to try an experiment.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Let me give some context. I <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">chose </span></span>to live in this Kingdom despite my deep and full knowledge of the history of the country. Unlike those born here, who had no choice, I decided that on balance the values, institutions and ancient charters like Magna Carta, that recognised the birth-right of every human to this earth outweighed any negatives of legacy or error. I think I made an excellent choice.</p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><i>Citizen-centric countries thrive.</i></b></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Yesterday a man holding up a <span class="tvm__text--legacy-publishing-emphasis" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">blank </span>placard was asked for his details by the police. A woman was arrested for holding up a placard that read "<span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Not my King!</span>" Elsewhere a young boy was tackled to the ground for shouting, in a crowd, his views on a widely publicised scandal that cost UK taxpayers many millions.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Recently both sides of government amended laws to make protest close to impossible. I understand why. In my <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">TED talk</a> I explain how so many respond with what they see as rational to a world they know and understand but that no longer exists.</p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><i>...we spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.</i></b></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">As we moved from a world of certainty to our new world of complexity uncertainty, fast, digital pace all of us had two options to respond to the new world. We could either respond to uncertainty by insisting on more control, more planning, fewer options available and less freedom to try. Or we could decentralise to the activities of individuals and allow them to coordinate, collaborate and innovate their way to discover the best ways of thriving. Our government has chosen to dominate rather than to evolve. In my view, they have decided to abandon Magna Carta in exchange for the sense of control.</p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i><b>"...this is frankly pathetic."</b></i></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Holding the reigns of a mad horse does not mean you have control. Adding more reigns and kicking the horse with sharp, pointy spurs will often make it madder and increase the chances of you being flung off. So, our police find themselves first in line for enforcing a government-centric set of laws. They will probably fail to achieve this consensually as there are more citizens than police, they may succeed by breaking the ancient compacts. But far worse a constitutional monarchy relies on the stakeholders, the subjects, to be mostly neutral or positive but not hostile. <a href="https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1569374630070165505" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Andrew Marr</a> the renowned BBC commentator remarked on the incidents I described above saying, "...<span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">this is frankly pathetic."</span></p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><i>Stakeholder-centric projects become legends.</i></b></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">I've not been asked but if I was my advice would be to quote from the <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/12rules" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">12 new rules for OUR new world</a>:</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>Unlearn Everything</b></span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b> </b>- Almost all the heuristics, assumptions and habits that drive strategy and policy today are probably obsolete. Reality always wins so if you make decisions on obsolete ideas they tend not to end well.</span></i></li><li><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>Stakeholders Rule OK!</b><span style="font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold);"> </span></span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">- Ditch acts and laws that are not citizen centric.</span></i></li><li><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>Change Dependence to Interdependence </b><span style="font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold);">-</span></span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"> Instead of control, planning and surveillance, energise social and enterprise interconnections.</span></i></li><li><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>Chunk it or Junk it </b></span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">- Learn as you implement. ensure all change is in bitesize steps of effort so that the stakeholders can confirm benefit before the next step. Universal and global-scale ideas in a complex world are bound to fail.</span></i></li><li><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>Don't 'change' anything</b></span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"> - Change is not Improvement. Removing ancient compacts that have worked well is not Improvement.</span></i></li><li><i><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>Assume Fair =Different not Fair=Equal </b></span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">- Abandon participation in one size fit's all policies. It doesn't.</span></i></li></ul><p></p><div class="reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><figure class="reader-image-block__figure" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-image-view-model " style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex
" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex !important; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" class="ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img lazy-image ember-view" id="ember259" loading="lazy" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQGPYd7IkuU6vg/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1663055344409?e=1668643200&v=beta&t=XHhYDZWcZWGzCLy43XCS-GFWIwDSOysXSvrdjNCe1FQ" style="background-position: 50% center; background-size: cover; border-radius: var(--corner-radius-medium); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; object-position: center center; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); width: 743.991px;" /></div></div></figure></div><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">I was teaching last Saturday. A participant asked how to tell if someone was a stakeholder. "There are three ways to spot a stakeholder I say smiling. I'll use a play on words to explain so you'll remember."</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">"First there were those who have a <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>stake </b></span></span>in the outcomes of your activity. They would bet <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">for </span>or <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">against </span>you. Generally, it is best if people bet <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">on </span>your success. You need to give them reasons to do so. Second, imagine you need to put up a fence. Can't do it on your own so someone must hold a fencepost - a <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>stake </b></span></span>- for you to hit with a mallet. They must trust you or they won't hold the stake. And you must make damn sure you don't hit and cause injury. Last, have you ever seen a Dracula movie? It's best not to have any of those who can prevent your vision wanting to do so. Dracula is powerful so instead of setting up a voluntary blood donation charity to keep him fed instead he flies out every night surprising and harassing people and biting them. Finally, they get fed up with that. One of them sharpen a <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>stake</b></span></span>, goes up to castle and plunges it through his heart as the finale to the movie. Always engage your stakeholders I end it's good for you and it's good for them."</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">I'm certain my country, the United Kingdom in the midst of grief, a change of monarch, cost of living rises and the remnants of the terror of covid hopefully will decide that we are all stakeholders prove I made the right choice.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/change" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#Change</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/transformation" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#Transformation</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/costoflivingcrisis" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#costoflivingcrisis</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/stakeholders" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#stakeholders</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/police" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#police</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/kingdom" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#kingdom</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/leadership" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#leadership</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/newworld" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#newworld</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/thinking" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: 600; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">#thinking</a></p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-76149938591720330912022-09-12T05:06:00.001-07:002022-09-12T05:06:45.688-07:00Permission Granted!<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2MSmMkO-b0wc4K-fsk53KOC2zuCpcyRgtt5QdUms8LerNgOtUZhGlmWp3WcyQN0YS4MpbJm3Hij5MLDAprP0zQW8aQ7Srr3FAoS9Eln237UsoM989yGMe1DJqrkgvPlshwyHtK-9GxzdaOOGE-CTrCCEaT4luirzSXZp3wlKWmcRn99IXxCHTCWMUQ/s697/58584036_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="697" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH2MSmMkO-b0wc4K-fsk53KOC2zuCpcyRgtt5QdUms8LerNgOtUZhGlmWp3WcyQN0YS4MpbJm3Hij5MLDAprP0zQW8aQ7Srr3FAoS9Eln237UsoM989yGMe1DJqrkgvPlshwyHtK-9GxzdaOOGE-CTrCCEaT4luirzSXZp3wlKWmcRn99IXxCHTCWMUQ/s320/58584036_s.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Better not to ask Permission. But if you must, first ask Forgiveness after you've done it!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large);">I awoke refreshed.</span></p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">If you know me, you'll know that I love to make connections, you'll know I love ideas and I like to mate them and make them multiply. You'll know I am always keen to experiment on myself before teaching or sharing with anyone.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">So this morning, as I literally laughed out loud almost waking my wife, it was because of one of my experiments gone right.</p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i><b><span style="color: #006600;">"Why am I asking a clock for permission to begin my day?"</span></b></i></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">I laughed because I suddenly had the thought, 'Why am I asking a clock for permission to begin my day?'</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Over a year ago I noticed my mum was starting to lose her memory. Apparently, this happens to some older people but there doesn't seem to be a consensus for why it happens. There is concurrent evidence of amylose plaques in the brain, evidence that neural connections that are required to form memories take much longer to make or are not made at all. But why?</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Part of my doctorate was studying fouling of surfaces by denatured proteins - a bit like the way milk sticks to the inside of a pan when heated. One thing I learnt was how, just like raindrops find it easier to form around dust particles a surface can remain clean for a long time even though there's a high concentration of denatured protein around it doesn't stick to the surface. And then a little bit of nucleation, a scratch on the surface or a bit of limescale, then suddenly the build-up of protein on the surface massively accelerates. After that any protein that comes near sticks.</p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><i><span style="color: #ff6600;">"And then a little bit of nucleation... then suddenly the build-up... </span></i></b></blockquote><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><i><span style="color: #ff6600;">massively accelerates".</span></i></b></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">I wondered if the plaques were a form of fouling. As I trawled through articles talks and videos. I found a TED talk on how the plaques build up. Another on how unlike the rest of the body, that has a lymph system for draining away waste material, the brain has none. So all the waste accumulates during the day to be washed out by the cerebrospinal fluid at night when the 'cabbagely' bits shrink and let the fluid flow through them. There was another on how the brain that normally runs on glucose might require a different energy source if anything goes wrong, the article suggested Ketones form Coconut oil which apparently on the Krebs cycle (the magical map of biochemical energy pathways) can provide alternative fuel. But more fuel means more waste material even if you do get more memories.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And then by chance I saw an advert. It was an advert for pillows from one of the world's greatest salesmen, Mike Lindell. There was a graphic that showed how the pillow supported your neck to keep your head horizontal.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">The engineer in me kicked straight in. How can your brain drain when most pillows elevate your head above horizontal? Even smart cerebrospinal fluid can't flow up hill. Gravity is your friend.</p><div class="reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><figure class="reader-image-block__figure" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: var(--artdeco-reset-base-display-block); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-image-view-model " style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper--use-img-tag display-flex
" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex !important; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" class="ivm-view-attr__img--centered reader-image-block__img lazy-image ember-view" id="ember857" loading="lazy" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQEhTJHkzD9WdQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1662960863687?e=1668643200&v=beta&t=ETuqGcIs_xusXpK6MOfb5MlIaN82YQ8v6SZq6NrVQc0" style="background-position: 50% center; background-size: cover; border-radius: var(--corner-radius-medium); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; object-position: center center; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); width: 743.991px;" /></div></div></figure></div><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">The experiment began. I would get rid of my pillow completely and add more coconut oil to my diet and my mums. My mum's memory seems to have improved. For me over a three-month transition as my neck muscles and tendons grew and adjusted, I was able to abandon pillows altogether. And with that came the deepest most refreshing sleep I've had for decades. Probably since I was a baby.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And that's why I awoke refreshed this morning.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">But instead of leaping up to take advantage of my brand-new day. My thoughts were to look at the clock to see what time it was. Was it too early to get up? It's as if I wanted the clock to give me permission to start my day.</p><blockquote class="reader-text-block__quote" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b><i><span style="color: #006600;">"Do you wonder what and who you are asking for permission from?"</span></i></b></blockquote><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">And that's when I laughed out loud at the realisation that I was asking a clock for permission. I just took my own initiative and here you are - reading this post! The clock would never have permitted it to be written let alone read.</p><p class="reader-text-block__paragraph" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Do you wonder what and who you are asking for permission from? Do you wonder what you might experience, learn or achieve if instead you just took the initiative?</p><p><br /></p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-84305000911942203922021-10-04T10:00:00.001-07:002021-10-04T10:01:55.338-07:00<p style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGcP-ALXRc7IXrFcdW39UJo4IBd7o6byKQeSeyb01I-G0FInRkMe5WgBkHSdUoEsjFuR0FeWINSrPOELsU1pTycxZJZj4VidJbT9qJ_QPzoCercpX8Qk6TWG4y0pFGe8SL4vrzXcXcsE2/s848/51378803_s+Flipped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="848" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGcP-ALXRc7IXrFcdW39UJo4IBd7o6byKQeSeyb01I-G0FInRkMe5WgBkHSdUoEsjFuR0FeWINSrPOELsU1pTycxZJZj4VidJbT9qJ_QPzoCercpX8Qk6TWG4y0pFGe8SL4vrzXcXcsE2/w693-h460/51378803_s+Flipped.jpg" width="693" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><h1 class="reader-article-header__title t-40 t-black t-normal pv4" dir="ltr" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 4rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.2; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-top: 16px !important; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Climate emergency? Sorted in a Day!</h1></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I just can’t wait to go skiing
again. Wake up in a cosy chalet. Spend all day outdoors physically doing
something that’s so difficult that you can’t really think of anything else.
A quick bowl of onion soup for lunch then armed with my reusable hand
warmers get sucked into such beauty that I barely notice the minus twenty
degrees outside that would normally kill me in less than an hour. As daylight
fades, return to a delicious meal in front of an open fire.<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">After two years of reduced global economic activity due to
lockdowns I hope the snow will be consistent. I’m hoping we’ve clawed back on
greenhouse gas emissions. I wonder if we have, because I keep reading that
we still face a climate emergency!</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Now I’m doing a thought experiment. After decades of
conferences, accords and proclamations that have patently not delivered, I’m
wondering how, if instead of being led by politicians, bureaucrats, planners
and teenagers, we gave the job to project managers, engineers and
designers. What would they do differently? </span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Imagine if you will that you are the project manager. You’d begin
by understanding the problem and scoping it. You’d engage your key
stakeholders early and bring your engineer and designer in to do the deep dive
together. You’d probably start with a <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/GapLeap" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>GapLeap</b></a>. The
gap is defined as, ‘</span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">the
difference between where we are and where we need to be</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">’.
You’d conclude that the gap is that, ‘</span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">we
have not ensured a habitat that sustains the ecosystem for all the
interdependent living and semi living creatures in the earth biosphere</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">’. You
might skip the next two steps and go directly to the fourth question, ‘Why we
haven’t we fixed this yet?’</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">In no time there would be a powerful list: De-forestation to plant
monoculture destroys habitats; Destroying the fungal mycorrhizal in the subsoil
and releases greenhouse gasses; Forest management methods provide the
opportunity for firestorms; Channelling rivers leaves fewer places for aquatic
animals to breed whilst ensuring that houses built on flood plains will be
flooded frequently; Plastic entering the food chain. This project is a <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/TypesOfChange" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>Quest</b></a>.
A project where the goal is clear but will require many parallel routes to
achieve it. You know that as the <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/LeadershipBeat-Quest" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>leader </b></a>that
in quest style projects success depends on your passion and determination and
that rests on the skills of your ‘knights’.</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">You quickly assign one sub-project to the engineer. on the <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/5Ps" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>scoping
document</b></a> the project purpose is to reduce the level of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. You use the time-cost-quality ‘iron triangle’ to
frame the principles: It should be as fast as possible, without creating
habitat destroying un-intended consequences. In a few minutes your
engineer, using the wonderful engineering-mindset, concludes that though water
vapour has the far bigger impact, the huge sea surface will make easy solutions
impossible. But with carbon dioxide we have a better chance.
Engineers are smart. They ask 'why' is the CO2 produced. Normal people obsess
about 'who' generates it, 'where' it is generated, 'how' is it generated or
annual changes. Fascinating but pointlessly stupid questions to ask. Five
minutes later they announce the solution. Reduce transportation,
transmission and distribution losses.</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Strangely, your engineer uses skiing as the analogy. <strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;">Transportation</span></strong> losses
arise because though it takes less energy to bring the bowl of onion soup to
you, you ski to it. Whilst outside you’re insulated, kept warm and generate no
CO2. Once back in the chalet you create huge <strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;">transmission</span></strong> losses
as you space-heat the air in order to warm you up briefly before it escapes up
the chimney! <strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;">Distribution</span></strong> losses
arise because both the chalet and bistro have to be heated and lit even when
you aren’t there!</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Problem scoped-out, you onboard the designer to redesign the system
for implementation. A few minutes of user-centred thinking and they’ve
designed wicking clothing to avoid air conditioning and stylish integral heated
or insulated clothing (known as a cardigan) to avoid the need for space heating
and transmission loss. By learning from commuters, they've redesigned
virtual working from staring at a grid of other people’s foreheads in a grid,
eight hours, a day to a virtual world accessible by all from wherever they
are. </span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Instead of </span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">moving
your atoms</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">to</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> the
work, you </span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">send
electrons</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> to the shared world to </span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">bring
the collaborative work to</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> you. No transportation
losses. </span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">And now you don’t have to simultaneously heat your home, car,
train, coffee shop, bus, office, conference room, lunch sandwich bar and
rooftop garden all day when you’re only in one at a time, distribution losses
reduce. </span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Now you consider your wider stakeholders and conclude that they
will find this less disruptive than the alternative of population control and
increasing restrictions on personal freedom. And you have the skills to
communicate to <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/IDQB" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>engage</b></a>.
and <a href="https://qube.cc/Persuasion" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>persuade</b></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">You use your gap leap to quickly work out the business
case. Transport, heating or cooling account for almost <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/6rcc2o/world_greenhouse_gas_emission_flowchart/" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>half </b></a>of
global CO2 generated. Your project execution will reduce that by three
quarters. The payback is almost immediate because your solution is low
risk. It does not require investments in unproven technology or replacement
technology- like an electrical grid for electric cars. There are no undesirable
effects like massive habitat-destroying lithium mines or turbine bisected
eagles.</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Now all that remains is to <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/StickySteps" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-action); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_blank"><b>plan </b></a>to
engage your stakeholders and make it happen. </span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I'm so
tired of feeble thinking.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I'm so
tired of the world sleep walking its way into crises instead of fixing them</span></em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I'm so
tired of opportunists and psychopaths fooling and hoaxing everyone</span></em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Useful
People Engagement Tools PETs</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Understanding the problem GapLeap – https://QUBE.cc/PETs/GapLeap</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Selecting the best approach Quest Type Project -
https://QUBE.cc/PETs/TypesOfChange</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Leadership of a Quest - https://QUBE.cc/PETs/LeadershipBeat-Quest</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Generating the scope 5Ps - https://QUBE.cc/PETs/5Ps</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Planning the unplanned Sticky Steps -
https://QUBE.cc/PETs/StickySteps</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">New about Eddie</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Professor Eddie Obeng is an educator, TED speaker and the author of </span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Perfect
Projects</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> and </span><em style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">All
Change! The Project Leader’s Secret Handbook</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">.
You can join his masterclasses, courses & workshops on the QUBE #SuperReal
campus. https://QUBE.cc . Tweet him @EdddieObeng or read his blogs on LinkedIn
or at imagineafish.com</span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-39197765700037881072021-08-18T10:21:00.002-07:002021-08-18T10:21:13.941-07:00Why doesn’t the project manager see it coming?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsk-CNam71TPZwuiB_5J9zUVgGUoaffClWwOtRtqr2scLhQIhJGM7MHn0m_Lih-LcdXYKwdL4BWapCL_TcgYXToGsSqZOb4hXWfZFhqbauCW-YOuLWs7lIEzWvNmrwhCosrtRUs6t4MiUq/s1000/apprentice-ConvertImage+PjM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1000" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsk-CNam71TPZwuiB_5J9zUVgGUoaffClWwOtRtqr2scLhQIhJGM7MHn0m_Lih-LcdXYKwdL4BWapCL_TcgYXToGsSqZOb4hXWfZFhqbauCW-YOuLWs7lIEzWvNmrwhCosrtRUs6t4MiUq/w640-h424/apprentice-ConvertImage+PjM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold);"><i>...or a completely new approach to project management First published in May 2009 in Project Manager Today Magazine</i></span></p><h3 style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">...if you can show it went wrong due to the misbehaviour of your team members, you can avoid the chop.’</h3><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">My niece has been watching The Apprentice. I know this because when I announced that I had to lock myself away to write an article for Project Manager Today she commented, ‘like in The Apprentice?’ ‘Er, yes’ I reply absent-mindedly. ‘I wouldn’t want to be the project manager because if your team gets called into the Board Room you get all the tough questions from Alan Sugar.’ I watched the first series, so I vaguely remember the formula. As I think about a suitable reply I remember wondering at the time why the task coordinator was called the project manager. In the episodes I watched there was little evidence of </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">stakeholder management</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">, </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">planning</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">, </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">risk elimination</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">, </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">learning</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">, </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">resource allocation</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">, </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">team engagement</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">, </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">business case development</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"> or even ensuring </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">benefits delivery</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">. The absence of </span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">leadership </span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">was also very evident. Because of the competitive nature of the game, the task manager had to deal with team members who would be openly or covertly hostile, trying to undermine them in tasks where the role clarity of the team members was poor; this was a formula for disaster. Perhaps the title ‘</span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">project manager</span></span><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">’ was simply aspirational. ‘It’s funny how they can never tell in advance,’ she said, ‘that they are going to get fired.’ Funny indeed!</span></p><h3 style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">...had to deal with team members who would be openly or covertly hostile, trying to undermine them</h3><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">For me it was also interesting that only the team who had ‘lost ’(i.e., made less money) got a grilling, even though, all too often, the other team had just been lucky and the project management had been atrocious and they got no chance to learn what they had done wrong. There was no way for either of the project managers to record what they had done to try to get it right, or where they thought they’d missed something or messed-up. As the thoughts crowd my mind I’m still silent. ‘The tasks which involve just selling seem to have different challenges and problems from those where they have to create something to sell.’ ‘But it seems that as long as you, the project manager, are vocal and demonstrate in the board room and that you have worked really hard to bring the project back once things start to go wrong, and if you can show it went wrong due to the misbehaviour of your team members, you can avoid the chop.’ I can think of no response, so I don’t give one. ‘But sometimes the mentors, I think that’s what they call Sir Alan’s two sidekicks, hang about to criticise and “rat” on the hapless project manager if you just make stuff up.’ Mentors indeed I think. This time I reply: ‘Thanks for the inspiration, I’ll use it as the theme for my article.’</span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">In the game show, as in real life, it is always better to be lucky. And, if things go wrong, it is useful to show that you are working determinedly to resolve issues. You might even become a hero, get a bonus or get promoted. A project where nothing critical happens is often perceived by managers as easy and little credit is given to the hard work, which may have gone into it. In truth, part of being lucky is the fact that things go wrong publicly in the project so you can demonstrate how capable you are by fixing them.</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">You first read it here I want to share something else aspirational, which I have been working on for the past few years. A completely new approach to project management. I have not published a single word about my new approach anywhere, so you are reading about it for the first time. I intend over the next few years to turn the research into tools, products and useful things and I really don’t want lots of ‘me too’ versions to clutter and distort the concepts and frameworks we develop. So, if you do read this, please just wait and get the stuff directly ‘from the horse’s mouth’ rather than creating a ‘made-in-my-own-shed’ Frankenstein version.</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">The new approach was developed in conjunction with a client and, at Pentacle, we have a policy never to publish any breakthrough ideas or materials until our client has had a healthy head start.</p><h3 style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">‘So how come a quarter fail and half barely make it?’</h3><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">About fifteen years ago I published All Change! It went on to become one of the most popular books for practising project managers. Seven years ago I published Perfect Projects. The title was a provocation to say that as a community we actually knew all we needed to know in order to deliver perfect projects. The question was, ‘So how come a quarter fail and half barely make it?’ Fortunately for me one of my clients approached me with an aspiration. What could I do to ensure that all their project managers always delivered perfect projects? The client had already made a start on the project, so a significant amount of the credit for this new breakthrough in project management goes to them. My contribution was to move from the concept, working with them to create a practical set of tools and techniques, and then to develop the teaching that would enable the project leaders to deliver constantly perfect projects.</p><h3 style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">...give them a sixth sense.</h3><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Our job at Pentacle was, in short, to give them a sixth sense. We had to enable them to see the future clearly in order to avoid things that hadn’t happened yet and to ensure that they could communicate their thinking and actions clearly so that the organization could recognize their hard work and applaud and reward them. Why doesn’t the project manager see it coming? Actually the very best ones <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">do </span></span>see it coming. They have probably built up their experience over many projects and have learnt to go beyond being a practitioner to having project management in their blood. But overall there is little incentive or capability for project managers to go into the future, return with an understanding of what to do in the present and do it. And for the less experienced project manager this is a big ask.</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">With the working title ‘PPI’, the Perfect Project Initiative is made up of five elements . . .business case development or even ensuring benefits delivery. For me it was also interesting that only the team who had ‘lost’- made less money, got a grilling although . . .</p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); float: right; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQFcSh-xmSlv1g/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303143952?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=GU9KfzmZSB9PkuohgWkwMOXwpmeZhPWSwbePYPnqiic" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQFcSh-xmSlv1g/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303143952?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=GU9KfzmZSB9PkuohgWkwMOXwpmeZhPWSwbePYPnqiic" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 432px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>1 Project Purpose Index</b></span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">The first step of our new approach is to develop an index of the importance and criticality of the project itself and the project execution. Building a business case and identifying the benefits delivery elements are essential. Also all the execution parameters, such as the effect on business as usual, or other projects, have to be compiled. This understanding is the basis for the Project Performance Indicators.</p><blockquote style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>. <span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">. . although the other team had often just been lucky and the project management had been atrocious and they got no chance to learn what they had done wrong. There was no way for either of the project managers to record what they had done to try to get it right or where they thought they’d missed something or messed-up.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></i></blockquote><blockquote style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); quotes: var(--artdeco-reset-base-quotes-none); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>. . . are vocal and demonstrate that you have worked really hard to bring the project back once things start to go wrong.</i></span></blockquote><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); float: right; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQE31OL_P3SBVQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303634690?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=_2dC9RqAqLUU2UBotzTQ3JWq9LZ-XmCckyocfFb6SRg" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQE31OL_P3SBVQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303634690?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=_2dC9RqAqLUU2UBotzTQ3JWq9LZ-XmCckyocfFb6SRg" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 432px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b style="font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent);">2 Project Performance Indicators</b></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Just like Key Performance Indicators, these are derived from the Project Purpose Index but there is a twist. Self-assessment means that the indicators are constantly self-appraised and we also combine positive and negative measures. This is supported by the mentoring process described later. The zero line, or calibration, is set by the Project Perspective and Incidents. <i>‘The tasks which involve just selling seem to have different challenges and problems from those where they have to create something to sell’.</i></p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); float: right; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQEPmPxTHEscHg/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303466731?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=aHXXNsYFSR7pErrE3dEZNSlFbO0ZEwvTxvpP6oOkHBU" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQEPmPxTHEscHg/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303466731?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=aHXXNsYFSR7pErrE3dEZNSlFbO0ZEwvTxvpP6oOkHBU" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 432px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>3 Project perspective and incidents</b></span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">In truth, about 95% of what is going to happen in a project is predictable in the future. If the project is ‘Foggy’, with lots of external participation, and where the progress is not obvious or visible, like night follows day you will experience a set of challenges, These will differ significantly from what goes wrong in a ‘Painting by numbers’ project with one supplier and easy progress measurement. We have tracked the ‘glidepaths’ of each type of project to highlight anticipated incidents so that the project manager with little experience knows exactly what to expect and when, and can demonstrate that they have eliminated the issues well in advance. </p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>. . . little evidence of stakeholder management, planning, risk elimination, learning, resource allocation, team engagement, business case development or even ensuring benefits delivery. The absence of leadership was also very evident. Because of the competitive nature of the game the task manager had to deal with team members who would be openly or covertly hostile and trying to undermine them in tasks where the role clarity of the team members was poor, this was a formula for disaster. Perhaps the title ‘Project manager’ was simply aspirational.</i></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); float: right; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQGMMbHso8Q5Bw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303603770?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=2r-sEzJ8DJLs6WMRWv7mlBmGwEYyOHB74LuLjfNV8JY" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQGMMbHso8Q5Bw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303603770?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=2r-sEzJ8DJLs6WMRWv7mlBmGwEYyOHB74LuLjfNV8JY" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 432px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>4 Project practitioner insight</b></span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Project management requires both science and art. The art of project management is the development of the more insightful and people-based, softer aspects of project management. These, in practice, actually have a much bigger impact on overall success. </p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>It was intriguing how the ‘mentors’, in this case Sir Alan’s two sidekicks, didn’t do much mentoring but instead hung about to criticise and ‘rat’ on the hapless project manager.</i></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-right" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); float: right; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQGYNVpD6U2DAQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303533501?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=cpK9A15De1FrqmtU-hGW4dkkRB7t328XRI78qTEcZpY" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQGYNVpD6U2DAQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303533501?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=cpK9A15De1FrqmtU-hGW4dkkRB7t328XRI78qTEcZpY" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); max-width: 432px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><b>5 Project performance and implications mentoring</b></span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Project mentors, who can be line managers or programme managers, need to be involved closely in the initiative. Using workshops we help them understand how to both ‘dig in the dirt’ with the project manager to identify why past surprises may have arisen, but also to develop an understanding of possible future events on or off the ‘glide path’. They can also help the project manager with the Project Performance Indicator scores. It is crucial that the mentoring programme becomes part of the day-to-day business-as-usual operations for the organisation. </p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: center; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><i>. . .only the team who had ‘lost’ - made less money - got a grilling although often the other team had just been lucky. </i></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">So there you have it. The approach has now been proven and is probably the basis for the next step in the development of project management. In these challenging times, as a project manager, make sure you see it coming!</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-middle" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQE8zZoIm7BTZg/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303927683?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=nfnA3qmBeBcyKvnXpZWnduhcdTU3pMxeNRNKvXWQF6w" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQE8zZoIm7BTZg/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1629303927683?e=1634774400&v=beta&t=nfnA3qmBeBcyKvnXpZWnduhcdTU3pMxeNRNKvXWQF6w" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 432px; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" /></div><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">This article is dedicated to Simon Cooper, Tim Bennett, James Gellatly, Gary Ford, Graham Barrett and all the rest of Simon’s team without whose creativity, insight, professionalism and determination this next phase of project management thought leadership would not have got very far. And without whose hard work the concept would never have been proven.</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Dr. Eddie Obeng is Learning Director at Pentacle The Virtual Business School. He is author of All Change! The Project Leader’s Secret Handbook, Perfect Projects and on Programme Management, Putting Strategy to Work. 20 London End Beaconsfield Bucks HP9 2JH +44 (0) 1494 678 555 Contact_Us@PentacleTheVBS.com</p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-80871378626536515782021-07-11T04:21:00.003-07:002021-07-20T12:20:24.185-07:00Rediscover your own voice and thoughts. - Here's how.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8M7g5v0jp3cnbBvtMhba3eARrKO8eHoIBz1pc2MaOvZ52t7SYvrP3r9rdzX-g3pa7pEHvo2CYJ7n1SFLgKi0PmFPVa8DWFrblHzFA8qcRqwgMJnnHOburfrUh5fbrDSwJsAXDAH07ytX/s450/download.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="450" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ8M7g5v0jp3cnbBvtMhba3eARrKO8eHoIBz1pc2MaOvZ52t7SYvrP3r9rdzX-g3pa7pEHvo2CYJ7n1SFLgKi0PmFPVa8DWFrblHzFA8qcRqwgMJnnHOburfrUh5fbrDSwJsAXDAH07ytX/w552-h478/download.gif" width="552" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So there’s a tension and you can’t’ quite put your finger on it.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The team laughter feels less intense. You know that’s not because you are virtual. You have been virtual for 18 months. It seemed to begin when one team member said that they identified as an avatar and were told off, shamed, by another for being transphobic.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There seems to be a reluctance to call each other out for poor performance. Instead, there is a dull underlying sullenness.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You know that with the scale of your organisation and the duration and complexity of your project with your global and cross functional teams you can’t’ always be everywhere. You are relying on the team members to challenge and support each other to excellence.</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">The dark arts prey on this human flaw. </blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The culture of the team, the ways we work together, is crucial to success. Our common values beliefs and heuristics of how we talk and report mean the right and best things get done even though no orders are given. Openness means issues don’t get hidden until it’s too late. Mutual respect means you can collide ideas to produce robust solutions.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yesterday, my friend of 30 years, Bill thanked me for being a true friend. I was taken aback. Last month, playing tennis he’d managed to tear his bicep. A week ago, we’d spoken on the phone. He’d made jokes about looking like Popeye. His doctor, reluctant to see him in these covid times, suggested he do nothing. Friends were bemused. But I’d written him a stern email berating him and suggesting specialists to consult. He’s 70 and like all of us, may one day need a cane to walk. For that you need strong biceps. I was concerned about his future. It turns out all his other friends were equally concerned but had been scared to offend him so said nothing. They were unwilling to support and challenge him.</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">… three powerful dark arts that began outside your organisation will by now be seeping into it…</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recently, three powerful dark arts that began outside your organisation will by now be seeping into it. You and I both had ancestors who were better at raw survival than the ability to see reality. Think how long they assumed the sun went round the earth and yet generation followed generation. That has left all of us susceptible to delusions. Of course, the sun god is pulling a chariot of fire across the sky. The dark arts prey on this human flaw. The determination to stay alive and go on to a next generation takes advantage of your ability to delude yourself. Simply put, your ego tells you to do anything to survive, "because I'm worth it".</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the same way as Brexiters/Anti Brexiters and Vaxxers/AntiVaxxers are unable to have a constructive conversation because conversation needs rationality linked to reality. Increasingly you will have found your team members not able to be open to understand issues let alone solve them together. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Persuasion and influence science</em></span> now boosted by AI and neuroscience – When a new concept or word is introduced to you for the first time it can just be neutral or the person introducing it can attach values and attributes such as "Fluburlops (new word) are good for your late-night energy." This type of introduction is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">framing</em></a>. George Lakoff in the book, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who frames first wins</em>, explains that you frame the situation first you make it near impossible for people to escape the conclusion you set for them. And if you also then bypass the logic circuits with emotional bias, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Robert Cialdini </a>says, people act without knowing why.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Behavioural economics</em></span> – The set-up of the system controls your choices and behaviours.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intolerant minority politics</em></span> – In the same way as one person with a nut allergy means no one on the entire plane can eat nuts, Nicolas <a href="https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship-small-minority/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Nassim Taleb explains</a> how intransigent minorities, however small always ends up dominating everyone else.</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">The world outside your organisation is awash with the impact of these three dark practices.</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every single new unusual word you have been introduced to in the past 6 years has carried a spell to enchant and bind you;</span> Brexit, Lockdown, Vaxx, Trumpists, Climate-denier, MeToo, Covidiot, Covid19, BLM, BoJo, Freedom-day, Cases... True some may be from good witches or wizards but you can never be too careful when there is a risk of losing control of your own mind.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ‘Defence from the Dark Arts’ class is how young wizards in the Harry Potter stories are taught to prevent their personal will and positive leadership being subsumed by other forces. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are five spells I use to ward off uninvited influences:</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Look out for framing and reframe</span>: </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My MBA set book was The Art of the Deal. That was how President Trump was introduced to me (framed for me), as a business guru. CNN told my friends he was a monster. Once a topic is framed you respond favourably to new information that confirms to you that the original you have accepted and now believe framing is correct. That's called confirmation bias.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I recall when I showed a friend the complete recording to the end of Trump talking about 'fine people'. I didn't just show the usual media clip I showed him the version they used at the impeachment hearing which includes him saying emphatically that 'fine people' did not refer to 'the racists and neo nazis who should be condemned totally'". My friend exploded in anger accusing me of having doctored the video clip! Funny thing is depending on your framing, you may have suddenly lost the joy you are having in reading this article! That feeling you have there has a name. It is called cognitive dissonance. If you felt it now, you know I'm right that you are suffering from delusions but you hate accepting that.</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: var(--spacing-six-x) 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Five years on and my clever friend is still locked in a spell of someone else's making unable to reach <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">his own </span></span>thoughts on the subject!</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You have no idea how sticky and debilitating confirmation bias is. Only last week I was at a Ceramics Fair in Waterperry with my friend Will. I mentioned to Will, casually as I did above, that I'd had to read President Trump's book for my MBA.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you agree that there are many normal reactions. Normal comments would include: Was it any good? How ghastly. Did it tell you how to make billions? But no my good friend Will, replied with a non-sequitur, "he didn't write it!"</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"What?" I thought, unable to respond for a few seconds. He repeated the statement as I tried to work out how that might be possible. He hadn't read the book. I had. I knew what was in it. I knew it described The property developer's business practices and deals and provided advice. If Trump didn't write it then how could a stranger know so much about deals? About his life? As I ponder this I say, "Of course he didn't write it. I can't imagine billionaires have much time for typing up books". Now will he looks confused. That was not what he meant. He literally believed that it was entirely someone else's book! Slowly I recognise what is happening. His response was just a fantasy statement or argument convoluted like pretzel in order to allow him to keep his framing and conclusions in the light of new evidence - It is again cognitive dissonance. Five years on and my clever friend is still locked in a spell of someone else's making unable to reach <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">his own </em></span>thoughts on the subject!</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Accepting you are wrong, is scary for your ego. What happens if instead of being "worth it" you discover you are frequently wrong and not so special. Would "survive at any cost" still be possible? Or would low self-esteem lead to your demise? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Cognitive dissonance</a> is a tough set of handcuffs keeping you spell-bound.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you receive information that is opposite to your original framing your mind creates a deeper delusion so you can keep thinking you are correct and "worth it". and cognitive dissonance will keep you stuck down a deep well of delusion, unable to perceive reality. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Apple's iPhone 4 dropped calls there was a scandal termed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Antennagate</a> Steve jobs used 19 words to fix Antennagate without creatig cognitive dissonance. “We’re not perfect. Phones aren’t perfect We all know that. But we just want to make our users happy.”</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Find an alternative way to describe the situation so people literally say “I hadn’t thought of it that way” .</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You then Us then me:</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Always listen, empathise and start from where they are, establish you are both on the same side before showing leadership.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Even structure your emails that way.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Disconfirm:</span> </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Early in my Perfect Projects course, we run a project simulation. In an hour participants make three months of tough decisions. The first review is brutal. They’re reluctant to acknowledge they did terribly. They blame everything, everyone. Then they sleep on it. By the second review they now know ‘they don’t know’. We’ve <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">disconfirmed </em></span>their delusions and they become eager to learn. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Find ways to let cold reality shine in. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trumpet your project culture over and above the infiltrating noise: </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once you have shared ground rules repeat them over and over. Point out reinforcing examples. Never punish good behaviour and never reward detractions.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be your own spirit guide</span>.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t get a delusion cast on you: Discard every remarkable story you’re dying to repeat. Ignore catchy slogans. When asked, never ‘imagine’. </p><ul style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flee your current delusions: Be scientific. Compare with a control group.</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Extrapolate from your opinion to predict what should happen next. When it doesn’t discard that delusion.</li></ul><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, regardless of the narratives and norms of the outside world, your project team can be cohesive, open, supportive and challenging. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">End.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Useful People Engagement Tools PETs</u></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HighGroundManoeuvre – https://QUBE.cc/PETs/HiGround-Jobs</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">YouUsMe - https://QUBE.cc/PETs/YouUSMe</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BubbleDiagram - https://QUBE.cc/PETs/BlowingBubbles</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RereRepeat - https://QUBE.cc/PETs/ReReRepeat</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MiPatronus - https://QUBE.cc/PETs/ MiPatronus</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">New about Eddie</u></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor Eddie Obeng is an educator, TED speaker and the author of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perfect Projects</em> and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Change! The Project Leader’s Secret Handbook</em>. You can join his masterclasses, courses & workshops on the QUBE #SuperReal campus. https://QUBE.cc . Tweet him @EdddieObeng or read his blogs on LinkedIn or at imagineafish.com</p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-86064066265929853082021-04-11T05:09:00.003-07:002021-04-11T05:09:55.977-07:00WARNING: Ideas in this article might terrify you and send you off in search of a safe room!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTLeGRv98v8khOkIiZ-On_nHpjcmMsOqIlScoA3LRgNc9e_oQ1wDPQ02epzH1CAIgJ8R_pXYEe1zz8ytDw6x04YhEkiiU_NdjKuUtod-547wGKxBAyKrL8bGnreL7899LsiPCbsQeCFUq/s1000/phone+bakelite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="1000" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTLeGRv98v8khOkIiZ-On_nHpjcmMsOqIlScoA3LRgNc9e_oQ1wDPQ02epzH1CAIgJ8R_pXYEe1zz8ytDw6x04YhEkiiU_NdjKuUtod-547wGKxBAyKrL8bGnreL7899LsiPCbsQeCFUq/w378-h267/phone+bakelite.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">WARNING: Ideas in this article might terrify you and send you off in search of a safe room!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yesterday I had an SFD. I write an acronym to make it less scary to you. Bold readers will find the definition below this article. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SFDs are what I have to do these days to shut out the voices, beautiful but hollow images and incessant chatter. It seems to be, for me, the only way to do independent, probing, quality thinking. I allow myself to make and take calls off my vintage, Bakelite telephone (Yes, they still work – the new tech lies on top of the legacy twisted-pair copper wire.) I feel just like a character from <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Matrix</em></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the next two weeks I’ve accepted half a dozen interviews, from TED Red Circle to a young podcast entrepreneur, I have articles, like this one, to write, courses to teach and clients to persuade from change to transformation. All these share the same underlying questions. “What next in this post-covid world?” “If we can’t go ‘Back to BC’ (Before Covid) where do we go?” “What shall we choose to do or not do?” and “Is the best yet to come?”. I needed to think.</p><h3 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">“If we can’t go ‘Back to BC’ (Before Covid) where do we go?”</h3><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wake to a grey cold day. The day before had been warm and sunny. Still spring, not summer. I reflect in parallel, the world has probably at least 3 to 5 years to go to be free of the primary (illness, lockdown), secondary (innovation in treatment and vaccines, digital tracking/impact on freedom) and tertiary (long term PTSD, unemployment, business failures) effects of the spikey, little red monster. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As I brush my teeth and peer at my fuzzy reflection, I ask myself, “How could the future look?” “Well”, I reply out loud, “It looks the way it has always looked. It could lead to paradise, dystopia or a dynamically stable in-between. What will happen is what is most probable. What it always takes is for us to consciously manipulate probability to make the future we want. No change there!”</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The day before I’d overheard a news item about a prominent climate campaigner who was refusing to ‘attend’ a conference until the whole world had been jabbed. SFDs give you space to reconsider incongruous statements that you normally gloss over and ignore. Now, as I consider the inconsistent thinking and virtue signalling, I exclaim, “Really?” 15 months of learning how to make digital conferences as emotionally engaging as face-to-face ones and at the first opportunity there is a push to go back to flying atoms about instead of letting the electrons do the walking? Won’t that just send us back the problems BC? Doesn’t that put all forms of life on our planet back at risk?</p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-full-width" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQEdH8P871_oGA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1618074085256?e=1623283200&v=beta&t=FERxOHZP80Vz7vV_aafTbTey8KsJI6LZqqpL75rAisU" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQEdH8P871_oGA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1618074085256?e=1623283200&v=beta&t=FERxOHZP80Vz7vV_aafTbTey8KsJI6LZqqpL75rAisU" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 744px;" /></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All the opportunities and challenges of BC now line up to be tackled again along with a completely new set arising from successes and failures from the past year. Einstein did warn us not to use the mindset that created the problems to try to fix them. But what should you learn?. </p><h4 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">...it needs us Leaders to lead the world to success.</h4><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I normally follow a video instructor during my 5 minute High Intensity Training session but now, SFD means silence and it’s hard to keep on track. I smile. I realise that it needs us Project Leaders to lead the world to success. We deliver change or transformation. And that gives the competent ones among us a responsibility like never before.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our responsibility is to pay attention to the impact of changes we might lead. We must not just ‘take orders’. We must influence which orders are to be given and choose the best from among them. Instead, check they are sound both in the short and long term. We must avoid change that deliver irreversible damage, especially to any life forms. We must prioritise change that enhances, empowers, enables and excites individuals over those that replace or de-humanify them. We must run perfect projects, avoiding waste and not disengaging stakeholders. We can choose properly because we have resilience not recklessness or risk aversion. We, competent Leaders manipulate the future because we deliver it. Outside work we should share our skills with people who have a deep understanding of problems they are trying to tackle in the community.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the afternoon as I begin to twitch and fidget with SFD withdrawal symptoms, I have to get out. I share my views as I walk with my wife through a nearby larch wood. Over the years I have met and spoken with thousands of leaders. And if I had to choose a group of people I’d trust to step-up to steer the world properly, it would be them.</p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">I begin to twitch and fidget with SFD withdrawal symptoms</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a ‘reflection chair’ in our conservatory. It faces south east and down the garden. I sit to write and capture the fruits of my SFD. I have enough ideas, examples and suggestions for my interviews articles and teaching now. After many moments I write. ‘Leaders will get it. They will step up, learn and lead properly’. ‘Because of you…’, and then in huge capital letters I write, “THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Challenge: Try an SFD this weekend.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Warning: Breaking news - I’m planning an SFW shortly – join me.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Health warning:</span> Reading this definition might lead to sweaty palms.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SFD= Screen Free Day - No phones, laptops, desktops, TV, tablets, touch screen controls, No looking at anything that is a screen even if it’s on your oven.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Withdrawal symptoms include:</span> Hearing birds singing. Responding with genuine interest to your spouse or kid. Reflecting on your tasty lunch.</p></blockquote>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-2198024691796552272021-03-03T04:41:00.001-08:002021-03-03T04:41:35.029-08:00Education in a Post COVID-19 World: The Value & Effectiveness of Adding Extra Dimensions<p><i> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">The post-covid world has forced learning by distributed learners into the mainstream. E-learning, zoom-fests, and webinars are everywhere you turn. We grow our sophistication at delivering virtually and yet the most demanding participants feel we could do a little more. </span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRiO6azlc_F-VkXmyekQ6zk6Exw9b5GgZ92bXt0F4VD3NI64KbSgfTOh-bVIJpiE7JwkCjE2_R4xeL7NSBGWd_Fnylot9Pi5irShiFa0VLntKlB87ENfddV6qB-YSFyIvutSCqfvBKPldy/s474/1612703637305.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="474" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRiO6azlc_F-VkXmyekQ6zk6Exw9b5GgZ92bXt0F4VD3NI64KbSgfTOh-bVIJpiE7JwkCjE2_R4xeL7NSBGWd_Fnylot9Pi5irShiFa0VLntKlB87ENfddV6qB-YSFyIvutSCqfvBKPldy/w596-h365/1612703637305.jpg" width="596" /></a></div><h1 class="reader-article-header__title t-40 t-black t-normal pv4" dir="ltr" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 16px !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Education in a Post COVID-19 World: The Value & Effectiveness of Adding Extra Dimensions</span></h1><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ten years ago, I had a challenge. As clients globalised and time and cost pressured increased even faster than the client learning needs, I needed a disruptor. I am Leaning Director at <a href="https://www.pentaclethevbs.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pentacle the Virtual Business School</a> where we deliver Applied Executive Education. </p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">...the Swedish make the best drills because they have the hardest rock!</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the same was as the Swedish make the best drills because they have the hardest rock, I was lucky. Executives are very demanding. Executives can’t be told. They can’t be forced. They will not accept a poor experience. They learn by speaking, discussing and sidebar conversations. They learn where there is trust so the emotional engagement is critical. They don’t take good notes. They do not revise, so learning retention and applicable memorable methods are essential. Also, they have no time to waste. </p><blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Executives are very demanding. Executives can’t be told. They can’t be forced. They will not accept a poor educational experience!</blockquote><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This brings me to <a href="https://qube.cc/learning-on-qube-pets/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE</a>. We created QUBE as a super real campus. Adding the third dimension making it virtual and enabling participants to use avatars (qubots), to represent themselves in the rooms (qubicles) of the campus. The next dimension was to use People Engagement Tools and Performance Enhancement tools. We call them <a href="https://www.pentaclethevbs.com/toolkit/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">PETs</a>. And to add a clear ‘<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">QUBE culture</span>’ to guide behaviour and participation. </p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-full-width" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQHkRVDpIX-HZA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1612704455601?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=7RvClzxfRfM22sRCN9uPSyS1bAd-DCX0WE8bE2tW1Lg" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQHkRVDpIX-HZA/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1612704455601?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=7RvClzxfRfM22sRCN9uPSyS1bAd-DCX0WE8bE2tW1Lg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 743.991px;" /></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost every breakthrough was totally counter intuitive and in the opposite direction to what the popular theory and folklore says! For example, people remember significantly more if the environment looks traditional and the avatars are cartoonlike than they do in a futuristic environment with realistic avatars! Who knew? Introverts LIKE role plays! Providing agency and letting participants set their own tests is more effective in transfer of skills and know-how to the workplace? Making participants lead social learning in their workplace of what they have learnt increases organisation adoption of new learning and means there is little requirement for exams! </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Bettoni" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Marco Bettoni</a> has studied QUBE and presented a number of academic papers you can find at http://www.weknow.ch/qube/</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prof. Bettoni particularly looked at the impact of the extra dimension in this paper http://www.weknow.ch/qube/pdf/Bettoni_Obeng_2019_Pyramid-New-Collaboration_ECKM.pdf</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The partnership between <a href="https://www.henley.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Henley Business School</a> and Pentacle The Virtual Business School to deliver programs through "<a href="https://qube.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/What-is-Henley-On-QUBE.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Henley-on-QUBE</a>" has been a great success for us. The greatest challenge, as always, was resistance to change. Persuading experts and Professors to try a different way is a universal theme. It is only now as people realise the dreadful depressing hopeless future of endless zoom calls and unstimulating webinars, text based engagement with non-engaged learners stretching into forever, that they are willing to look at another, and I say better, way of educating.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In April I will be speaking to The Swiss e-Learning Community https://www.eduhub.ch/ . eduhub is a community of e-learning experts from Swiss Higher Education Institutions. You should keep an eye open for more details on this if you are in Education <a href="https://www.eduhub.ch/events/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Events - eduhub</a>.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In our session together I will share the key learnings, surprises and practices that have led to our success, some that I have already published, and pose questions about the future for learners in a post-covid world.</p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-78047383958873288432021-03-01T01:38:00.000-08:002021-03-01T01:38:34.423-08:00Your Survival Guide for our post-covid world - From BC {Before Covid} to AD<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhb3jdViTkGz4Vwjj8DMNsWwtn6Dand4JD2c8WD4OtMX0PMEB7DjOvZimw7W0JWHHeViU9ENXwh4CuadNVOnPtrO3yTV0XnWTIbo5d6hFr8d5i9Vv7q-lVt1vBhaHckPsfRnBBDCdtK3A/s474/1614500304457.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="474" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhb3jdViTkGz4Vwjj8DMNsWwtn6Dand4JD2c8WD4OtMX0PMEB7DjOvZimw7W0JWHHeViU9ENXwh4CuadNVOnPtrO3yTV0XnWTIbo5d6hFr8d5i9Vv7q-lVt1vBhaHckPsfRnBBDCdtK3A/w616-h239/1614500304457.jpg" width="616" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="ember-view" id="ember6258" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="reader-article-content" dir="ltr" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please Download, Use and Freely-Share the three embedded TRANSFORMATION posters.</em></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="337" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-d8KQZJUUwU" width="564" youtube-src-id="-d8KQZJUUwU"></iframe></div><br /><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 3.2rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;">Last week, during lockdown, I attended an Accreditation Fair.</span><a href="https://youtu.be/yS5WbtZslcU" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> The exhibition hall</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;">was laid out with all the top providers of project practitioner skills and assessment. There was a large, purple Association for Project Managers stand with its rolling slideshow ‘About APM’, an array of stories and examples, and a very comfortable and stylish black sofa set. A bright blue Project Management Institute (PMI) area showed a video of opportunities. The hall was full of activity and information. I watched the people mill around and explore. You like most of us have not felt the buzz and dynamic of an excited conference crowd for a while. It was a wonderful sense of nostalgia, our lost world. I joined one group of</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;"> </span><a href="https://qube.cc/video-qube-explainer/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">qubot</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;">-avatars at a café table for a chat before I had to give my kick-off keynote on the large circular main stage. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://chrisherd.medium.com/why-the-2020s-will-be-the-remote-work-decade-3fb691dada63" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Chris Herd</a>, the remote working guru, says that having spoken to over 1000 companies, he confirms that evenly spread globally, about 30% are planning to get rid of their offices entirely and go ‘remote-first’. If he is correct, we’re going to need different ways than video conferences and document sharing to keep us engaged and sharp. We’re need to be able to social include, provide a cohesive culture and help people feel and be productive. </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m only partially sure of this. Mid last year I wrote an article on the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imagine-you-knew-future-here-prof-eddie-obeng-mba-phd-fellow-apm/?articleId=6663478030960218113" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">five possible futures </a>we faced and speculated on which would emerge and how it would affect you. You can guess the list easily; <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back to BC</em> - where we are all dressed head-to-toe in stylish lightweight spaceman-style suits or vaccinated like swiss cheese and go back to BC [Before Covid], <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Partially Locked</em> – here we yo-yo between old freedoms and restrictions, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Accidental Rut</em> - where the habits built up in periods of lockdown persist and your zoombie eyes keep rotating and swivelling, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another Phoenix</em> – where your organisation, that has been rubbish at innovation, now tries to reinvent itself for new customers and markets, and the one I believe will be our real future - <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Meld</em> a mixture of all the above in no organised fashion. </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which do you think is most likely?</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To survive The Meld, face-to-face, remote, new activities and culture must all share the same, even playing field. The only way to achieve this it to create an accessible parallel world.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/contacts/j/jeremy-dalton.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jeremy Dalton</a> in his new book <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/reality-check/jeremy-dalton/9781789666335" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Reality Check </a>says that avatar-based events and work – like the Accreditation Fair I have described - are the <a href="https://www.eddieobeng.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Future_of_work_in_a-post-Digital_World.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">future of work</a>. </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://ukshop.economist.com/collections/the-economist-special-reports/products/special-report-on-the-world-economy-oct-10-2020" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Economist in its Special Report on The World Economy</a> said that QUBE, the super real digital world I use, was to be "<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the next office facility</span>"</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The easiest way to understand how qubot-avatars work is to watch this <a href="https://youtu.be/TAnNbJJDUlQ" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">short video</a> about Virtual Tourism where human-beings role act as your controllable avatars, not on QUBE but in the Faroe Islands.</p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" data-li-src="https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=9057935058924354977" frameborder="0" height="222" src="https://www.linkedin.com/embeds/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=9057935058924354977" style="background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; margin: 4.4rem auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="" width="744"></iframe><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A qubot is essentially the 'person' you control in the super-real world on QUBE. Being a world and not a platform or app, it empowers you to do everything you wish. And with <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a focus on <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">real feel</em> and not real look</span> the human emotional aspect of remote working is satisfied. The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-next-big-task-taking-the-office-water-cooler-virtual-11599397201" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a> described the QUBE super-real world as the "<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Virtual water cooler</span>".</p><h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now to AD [ After Death of the Old World ]</h3><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Our <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">past </span>is now as unfamiliar as our <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">future</span></blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Either way <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our past is now as unfamiliar as our future</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We dream of a world we recognise and understand but that no longer exists.</em></a></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As you’ll know, when faced with a completely new challenge the safest way to succeed is not to set goals about something you don’t understand but instead to take a step review and learn. You need to be systematic and disciplined.<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In our new post-covid world having a system for success will trump any audacious but ungrounded goals you have</span>. A system is a disciplined repeated behaviour selected. Use <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/TypesOfChange" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Foggy Project method</a>s & Agile methods – drumbeats, <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/StickySteps" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">StickySteps</a> and <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/ActionReplay" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ActionReplays</a> to solve new challenges.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The journey is just beginning</span></h3><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">You responded so well to the crisis. It is easy to believe our new status-quo is also our best future. It is NOT!</blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What must you now unlearn in order to be able to progress? Comfortable pyjama bottoms on teams calls need to be replaced with proactive engagement of key stakeholders. Document sharing needs to be replaced with synchronous collaborative workshops. Unless you unlearn you will be unable to grow into new opportunities.</p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-full-width" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQEIJzpMt8TSHQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1614503657635?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=-RaAdE9OafRse-s4LtM3MTxmCVYLU32psXWnnFvvZI4" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQEIJzpMt8TSHQ/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1614503657635?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=-RaAdE9OafRse-s4LtM3MTxmCVYLU32psXWnnFvvZI4" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 743.991px;" /></div><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn to Transform</span></h3><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Change is not enough. To re-invent you must <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Transform</span>. A butterfly is not simply a caterpillar with wing<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s</span>.</blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last year you moved from response to recovery to renewal. Now move to re-invention. Your BC leadership & management 'Body of Knowledge' and best practice are now obsolete. Don’t lament. Your best practice was optimised for BC. Now It needs a further upgrade.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BC work was delivered through a lot of meetings, sharing of documents, spreadsheets and workflow apps. not agile or fast or exciting mostly. And because it was so easy for work to go off track, you could build a career by gaining a reputation for putting out fires. Now we must learn in advance from what has not yet happened and avoid the bad bits collaboratively together. The system I use is called <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/glydePath" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">glydePath</a>. Also, now you have to juggle the team, the network, the community plus your stakeholders!</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those making the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-changing-when-should-transforming-obeng-mba-phd-fellow-apm/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">transformation leap</a> use <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/MetaMorph" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MetaMorph</a> I’ve described in this column previously </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-full-width" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQHhyZrGB_MsVg/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1614503617881?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=TV6mmiP3wPkytnD01d3sllL-C2-am8Yo6JpRnIwPvC4" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQHhyZrGB_MsVg/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1614503617881?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=TV6mmiP3wPkytnD01d3sllL-C2-am8Yo6JpRnIwPvC4" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 743.991px;" /></div><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Relax and find a guide</span></h3><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Without a guide, travel to a new land is just empty buildings and strange looking food.</blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are two ways to reinvent – one is to copy everyone else, find the trendy buzzwords and push a bunch of ideas for working better and see what works. The safer route is to find the most demanding (or obnoxious stakeholder) the one who demands what you cannot currently do (or understand). One who is dismissive on your blocks and barriers. Use them as a guide to the future. Reinvent to meet their outrageous demands. Often the rest of the world will want what this person demands six months after they have spelled it out, so you will be ahead.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you select to be guided by a consultant check their bio. If they weren’t expert in whatever they claim 7 years ago fire them. Remember in our new AD [Accelerated Development] world opportunities are everywhere so you will suffer much more by being led astray than by doing nothing.</p><div class="slate-resizable-image-embed slate-image-embed__resize-full-width" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="No alt text provided for this image" data-li-src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQFExywzx-cDaA/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1614503710874?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=LzvM9Y79qmZABXUcg-UKWlAQzAq6VoBZa6X-QBztjqI" data-media-urn="" src="https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4D12AQFExywzx-cDaA/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0/1614503710874?e=1620259200&v=beta&t=LzvM9Y79qmZABXUcg-UKWlAQzAq6VoBZa6X-QBztjqI" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 743.991px;" /></div><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><h3 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 2.4rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You want technology on YOUR side</span></h3><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology can enhance and empower people.</blockquote><blockquote style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2.4rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 3.6rem; margin: 4.8rem 120px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology can enslave people, delete their sense of purpose and crush their dreams.</blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking with one accrediting body at the Accreditation Fair last week, they were proud of how their syllabus content was constrained, the process was systematised, the training tutors assessed. I asked how, with the lack of face-to-face classrooms, they were delivering the nuance and emotional connection needed to grow superb project managers and not technicians. They answered that they used e-learning and webinars. I replied, “Can’t those just be recorded and AI used to create a database of responses? If so, the business model for the training companies is over? Where is the human element? How is the technology empowering the tutors? Enhancing the learners?” I was their obnoxious stakeholder but they glared at me with a fierce intensity, obviously dismissing my comments.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If 2020 has been our ‘crisis’, then 2021 marks our first year AD. It is the year our energy and creativity emerge from lockdown to build, knowing that the best is yet to come. I hope you have begun already.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Herd <a href="https://chrisherd.medium.com/why-the-2020s-will-be-the-remote-work-decade-3fb691dada63" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Why the 2020s will be the Remote Work Decade | by Chris Herd | Medium</a></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeremy Dalton <a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/contacts/j/jeremy-dalton.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jeremy Dalton (pwc.co.uk)</a></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Foggy Change https://QUBE.cc/PETs/TypesOfChange</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sticky Steps https://QUBE.cc/PETs/StickySteps</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DrumBeats https://QUBE.cc/PETs/DrumBeat</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">glydePath https://QUBE.cc/PETs/glydePath</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MetaMorph https://QUBE.cc/PETs/MetaMorph</p></div></div><div class="reader-flag-content__wrapper mb4 clear-both" data-ember-action-6259="6259" data-ember-action="" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">#HorridCovid has been grim but marvellous. We all now know the
Emperor had no clothes. We need to build a next normal, a meld of
diverse people, new business opportunities, different ways to live
and work, remote/office/ hub, a different role for government and
much more.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">The prize is
enormous. We could resolve climate challenges, economic issues, raise
productivity and standards of living world-wide, innovate to cure
diseases and improve health and allow people to have meaningful
purpose. But we must <i>think</i> differently because the solutions
will not be the opposites of the problems. And we must <i>act</i>
differently to make it come to life.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Full disclosure
first. I am biased. My mother (95) was the first Ghanaian woman PhD.
She began her studies in the US during the colour bar years and ended
up getting her Doctorate from the Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine. I grew up on stories of jealous men who, finding it hard
enough to climb the greasy pole against other men, now found they
were outclassed and had to compete with this brilliant woman. Many
readers will have met my mother in 2017 when she delivered an
<a href="https://qube.cc/video-qube-inspiration-dr-letitia-obeng" target="_blank">‘Inspiration’ keynote on QUBE</a>. I am biased because I want women
to succeed with their dreams. I also want men to succeed. I’m
biased towards wanting everyone to succeed with their dreams. That’s
why I am an Educator.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Born in Africa, I
have been black most of my life. I first discovered I was black when
I became the first African in over 100 years to attend my British
Public school of 500 boys. Before that I was just Eddie. I’m
biased because I know how a real minority feels. And I want everyone
to feel the excitement and joy of being one of a kind, a pioneer
forging your own way.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Everyone knows
the mantras; Equality of outcome, Equality of opportunity, Getting the most from Diversity, Being like our customers, Making people feel included and at home, More women
in STEM, More minorities on TV, Need for role models, Hierarchies,
Privilege and more. Good people strive to attain these and so they
should. But must we understand the underlying causes before we can
improve?</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">As a leader or
manager you will have put your instincts into practice but not into
words. Let me help.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">You must have
played <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)" target="_blank">monopoly </a>at least once. If you haven’t, I’ll explain.
Everyone starts off with the same amount of money and through three
hours of laughter, cheating and rolls of dice, one person ends up
with <u>all</u> the money. Every time. Why does this happen? Every
time? Because when a <i>variable </i>event <i>depends </i>on another variable
event and that one fails, the next one fails by default. When your cash equals zero you drop our leaving your cash for the other players. Outcomes are not always symmetrical up and down. Equality of
outcome is transient and unstable.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">You know as a
leader or manager, that skills and capability drive success in a
role. There are few world-class, 4-foot tall, basket-ball players,
so you don’t put a dyed-in-the-wool marketer in charge of your
systems architecture design. They probably wouldn’t enjoy the
experience either. Capability can always be developed but everyone’s
capability is variable but has its own sweet spot.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Do you have a
group of friends you have known forever? Your routines are known so
well nothing needs to be said? Remember the feeling of dread when
one of them announces they’re bringing their new
partner/cousin/child to your next gathering? It’s not personal
against the new person, although it may feel personal to them. It’s
just you that want to preserve what you have.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIMvF_4WBE5zCzLsaXn5_gvnmxd6Oeb1lmfl6LxTrhiCKyEZmyKVepJUANeDLTDXZMbRyC_0HdRgMKZ6iEkhY8o4quf52y4VYg2VIwUDWKKsdtJX1nPQH3iYBVeuqopVn510nL6kYiYQA/s889/121767718_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="889" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIMvF_4WBE5zCzLsaXn5_gvnmxd6Oeb1lmfl6LxTrhiCKyEZmyKVepJUANeDLTDXZMbRyC_0HdRgMKZ6iEkhY8o4quf52y4VYg2VIwUDWKKsdtJX1nPQH3iYBVeuqopVn510nL6kYiYQA/s320/121767718_s.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>As a leader or
manager lead that’s the same dread you feel when you have to
introduce a new person to your super-team. You fear ‘the dreaded
J-curve’. You add a resource but the original super-team members
ignore their input, so that means overall productivity falls. You add
another and now one of the super-team has to stop working to show the
newbies ‘how things are done around here’. Productivity falls
even more. And it keeps falling as you increase diversity and new
thinking. If you’re lucky it reaches a turning point, the bottom of
the ‘J’, where the original superteam decide to learn a new way
to work all together with all the diverse newbies. A brand new shared
‘How we do things round here’ is created. And then productivity
skyrockets! Sometimes the old rituals stay and the team just
steadily fails despite you adding more and more resource. Smart
leaders ‘shake-the-box’ with a new kick off and new, common,
ground rules.
<p></p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Outside work, in
normal life, it’s more likely that the old rituals remain and the
‘team’ just steadily fails. Illogically the old team fails to
take advantage of the benefits of new ideas, experiences, different
skills and capabilities. Why does this happen? Every time?
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">As a new, young
scientist at Shell, my project needed input from one of the very senior staff.
Colleagues had told me of his reputation for being cutting and
aggressive. He was a key stakeholder and I desperately needed his
input but full of fear I hadn’t approached him for it. Once he had been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff" target="_blank">framed </a>in that way every story
or comment I heard seemed to confirm the initial descriptions I had
been told. And I dismissed any reports that didn’t fit my previous
views out of hand. One day I was summoned to office his only to
discover he was great! He was incisive and helpful. Fear and bias had
kept me ignorant of reality. You must realise that evolution
equipped us with two perception tools for a different purpose. But I
had been using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias" target="_blank">confirmation bias</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance" target="_blank">cognitive dissonance</a> to remain
ignorant.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Also remember,
the story teller has a more rapt audience with a scary ghost story.
Somehow “he is incisive” turned into “he is cutting and
aggressive”. This ‘<a href="https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/muse.union.edu/dist/1/555/files/2019/09/Bamberg1.pdf#:~:text=The%20round-trip%20fallacy%20as%20described%20by%20Taleb%20Nicholas,calls%20the%20R%20ound-%20Trip%20Fallacy%20%28Taleb%2C%202007%29." target="_blank">round-trip fallacy</a>’ these days would be
classed as #FakeNews.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Fear, ignorance
and #fakenews underpin every ‘ism’. Racism rests on fake news
from the days of the British Empire where the propaganda was useful
to maintain order. Sexism rests on many other sources from belief
systems to inheritance. I grew up in a matriarchal society.
Inheritance on the mother’s line means no Henry the Eighth.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">You will know as
a leader that the Fear disperses <i><b>after</b></i> the fear has
been met not before – that means that the best way to inclusivity
is to be as unthreatening as possible and to go out of your way to
connect with those who have the ‘ism’. Forming a group against
them may silence them but won’t win them over. <b>Be kind</b>. Being an
‘-ist’ makes them far more miserable than you imagine. I recall
how the ‘-ist’ men who ‘thought that they should be better than
my mother’ suffered because of course they weren’t. Their ‘ist’
thinking made them feel they were despicable failures whilst they
were actually doing just fine.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">The new next
normal is your chance to deliver change using all the talent
available. You promote totally new innovative solutions. Stop
arguing with the rain falling, build an umbrella to stay dry. Don’t
use goals or targets remember '<i>Equality of outcome is transient and unstable'</i>. Instead think of day to day <i>systems </i>that will
include enable and allow people to get round the J curve. You can
get round the ‘J-curve fast’ throwing open the doors to the
mental prisons.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">I built my
<b>#super-real</b> world on QUBE to get past all the barriers above. Super
reality allows you to build a parallel world for you and your
colleagues where you can fix all the issues in our current world. On
<a href="https://QUBE.cc" target="_blank">QUBE </a>everyone is included and there are no mental prisons.
Productivity and innovation, even amongst strangers leaps to five
time what it would be face to face! By using a culture and many
counter intuitive tricks such as simplified avatars and learning over
10 years I have made it work. Below are some of the tips I would
propose.
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<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><b>Learning first
hand.</b> In our old world we relied far too heavily on second hand
learning. Just think how many assumptions and attitudes you have
which you were given rather than discovered for yourself. Second
hand learning is a ripe source of the #FakeNews which prevents
inclusion. Actively explore and discuss old world assumptions. In
our post-covid world remember no one really knows how it works so you
might as well find out for yourself.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><b>Go where the
fear is</b>. Fear is a very accurate indicator of areas of
uncertainty, chaos and of course opportunity. In our new world it is
much safer in the long run to explore where your fear is than to stay
in your obsolete comfort zone.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><b>Keep
re-creating ground rules.</b> How will we work together? Treat each
person as an individual NOT a label. [Having been ‘Black’ most
of my life I discovered recently that I am now a, “colour of
person”!] Keep shaking the box. Don’t settle on a culture yet.
Include the people involved in creating and recreating their way of
working. Be ready to treat everyone differently in order to be
completely fair to everyone.</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><b>Everyone is a
role model</b>. If you insist that your role models must look like
you in some way then I would be limited to using my identical twin
brother who doesn’t exist as my best role model. Instead look for
deeper characteristics; courage, kindness, questioning those which
are less superficial and let you select anyone successful to emulate
in your own pioneering style. Remember each of us is a minority of
one in 8 billion. Be free to be yourself. Then my advice is your role
model should be you! You should be the pioneer. You get to experience
the fear of pain and rejection and the joy of triumph and
breakthrough.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Leaders are the
ones who really shape the world. Other people just talk about it.
You will decide what the emperor wears next.
</p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Link to My
mother’s keynote talk
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://qube.cc/video-qube-inspiration-dr-letitia-obeng/">https://qube.cc/video-qube-inspiration-dr-letitia-obeng/</a></u></span></p><p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;"><span style="color: blue;">Reference to Prof Quinetta Robertson who first presented a version of the J curve</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Round Trip fallacy is attributed to N. N Taleb from the book The Black Swan</p><p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">Daryll Davis "Why I attend KKK rallies" https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw</p><p style="line-height: 108%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
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</p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-64554796360382465292020-09-14T02:40:00.005-07:002020-09-14T02:41:31.125-07:00Get back to the office. We need you round the water cooler!<div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTx1aZFzVe7uGBaMjyYBnLBatb_lZv2nCgFU_mxCCibBHAIWNwkCx7yj0tk1rAZzeua_4eBV0iR_-CPAoCmFKPcCmxgRbUKM9INou3OAcieoRlBBFEjQ4chy8j1EOKySM0r5Q7S7WiB2T/s848/tea.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="848" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTx1aZFzVe7uGBaMjyYBnLBatb_lZv2nCgFU_mxCCibBHAIWNwkCx7yj0tk1rAZzeua_4eBV0iR_-CPAoCmFKPcCmxgRbUKM9INou3OAcieoRlBBFEjQ4chy8j1EOKySM0r5Q7S7WiB2T/w625-h416/tea.jpg" width="625" /></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">I once attended a Japanese Tea Ceremony. I loved it. The pace, the kneeling, the setting, the beautiful bowls. When we finally got to the tea, I was expecting a typical British piping-hot brew. It was cold and tasted well, meh!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past few weeks, as businesses slowly came to realise that although they have coped and survived the lockdown and remote work, something has been lost in the endless hours of teams and zoom. What has been lost is the soft-intangible but crucial part of the joy and purpose of working with other people. And in addition, the organisation's culture is slowly dissolving as there are no easy ways of reinforcing 'how we do things around here'.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyone says it's impossible for digital solutions to be as good as human face-to-face/in-person activity. Everyone says the tools make zoombies of us all. But Perhaps they are mistaken?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG2sBsK95cbE8YbWYQHsjCW0QmAj76JvlYqeOBZjeIQGKO23skvJ9wfu1Y4aA7QTORAMGfrJRu0EI3cDNMhdYGsiGl0Al5C7cT-wg7pzgjyMrbQBQrMWvp7a0adW3lJOXm9wFtUEocRrtM/s937/watercooler.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="937" height="481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG2sBsK95cbE8YbWYQHsjCW0QmAj76JvlYqeOBZjeIQGKO23skvJ9wfu1Y4aA7QTORAMGfrJRu0EI3cDNMhdYGsiGl0Al5C7cT-wg7pzgjyMrbQBQrMWvp7a0adW3lJOXm9wFtUEocRrtM/w625-h481/watercooler.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">In my interview with the Wall Street Journal for the article,</span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/techs-next-big-task-taking-the-office-water-cooler-virtual-11599397201" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tech’s Next Big Task: Taking the Office Water Cooler Virtual</em></a><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</em><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I explain how I have created a way to tackle the tough and often seen as impossible challenge. I've done this by moving digital on another generation. First generation was email, second generation was VC and file sharing (e.g. teams, zoom, mural etc.) and now there is a third.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Everyone says it's impossible for digital </i></span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>solutions </i></span></span><i style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be as good as human </i></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><i style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;">face-to</i></span><i style="font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>-face/in-person activity.</span></i></span></h3><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organisations who are stuck with new rituals which fail to meet the old soft needs are clamouring for a return to the office. But they have it the wrong way round. The objective is not to restore the office ritual. The objective is to gain the buzz, connections and serendipity. Unlike my Japanese Tea Ceremony, the goal is the Tea not the Ceremony. So, the question they should ask themselves is, given that we are where we are, what is the best way to achieve the soft emotional and inspirational connections we miss?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the past months I created #WeConnectWednesday. The idea is simple but breakthrough. Rather than returning to old ineffective rituals or abandoning new harsh digital rituals and routines people are barely on top of, we use #WeConnectWednesday to resolve the human soft challenge.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a </span><a href="https://qube.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/WeConnectWednesday.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">link for you to download a fuller description </a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgi9mk5Iogc1ep53C_Ir0Y2PDdRpUxTkcBTn6wttRt0-VohlEkzQs7FJQF3Vj8SQHQYOa61Cf17SYOKGzRMX_jJ2hwHi4WJ_WwSkqQzX-i2hTfJaXDtKjmt7TXmPwOYPXRVX6oExv8jcAS/s1740/weconnect.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1740" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgi9mk5Iogc1ep53C_Ir0Y2PDdRpUxTkcBTn6wttRt0-VohlEkzQs7FJQF3Vj8SQHQYOa61Cf17SYOKGzRMX_jJ2hwHi4WJ_WwSkqQzX-i2hTfJaXDtKjmt7TXmPwOYPXRVX6oExv8jcAS/w625-h333/weconnect.png" width="625" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The basic idea is to spend all day as an avatar in the QUBE New world cafe. That immediately puts you two clicks from everyone in your organisation. As you know QUBE with its virtual reality facility is completely immersive and people feel emotionally connected. If you've been on QUBE you will vouch that you hear more laughter than in-office in-person encounters. And you will agree that people are much more open in their messages and sticky notes than they ever would be face-to-face.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)" style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Beware following those who lack </i></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)" style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>imagination and believe the only way to the </i></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)" style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>future is to go back to the old normal. The</i></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)" style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> future is now, it's human and it's better. </i></span></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75)" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Throughout the Wednesday there are set pieces, for example: #coffeeOnQUBE in the morning, #Lunch&Learn, #TheDrIsIn mini-masterclass and #TeaAt3 in the afternoon. Alongside this there is an etiquette which brings you into contact with your colleagues in a fun and useful way.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here, below is an image extracted from the </span><a href="https://qube.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/WeConnectWednesday.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">#WeConnectWednesday guide </a><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">showing part of the timeline for the day and what happens.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKAOvldmXpO7nCANqnOdfUGQZB987Se6qfrF96lXGA3CHBNipDUdnviBO5UIs4v9ajHqwFfXnMy40n-KiBWR1gwL2-Evp5AmuoGrgsnlIzKANqDa_vzL67bW4Kyy63Uo5VJjUm6sfnXFj/s708/weconnect2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="708" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKAOvldmXpO7nCANqnOdfUGQZB987Se6qfrF96lXGA3CHBNipDUdnviBO5UIs4v9ajHqwFfXnMy40n-KiBWR1gwL2-Evp5AmuoGrgsnlIzKANqDa_vzL67bW4Kyy63Uo5VJjUm6sfnXFj/w625-h414/weconnect2.png" width="625" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Beware following those who lack imagination and believe the only way to the future is to go back to the old normal. The future is now, it's human and it's better.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">End.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://QUBE.cc" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">http://QUBE.cc</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">+441494678555</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Susan_Ross@PentacleTheVBS.com</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b00fe; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/QUBEcc" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">@QUBEcc</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://imagineafish.blogspot.com/2020/07/curing-productivity-problem-in-our-new.html"><<Previous</a></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-37426543610029740832020-07-29T05:47:00.007-07:002020-09-14T02:42:17.047-07:00Curing the Productivity Problem in our New Covid World: 9 Steps to Bridge the Gap<font face="trebuchet"><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7JtNXiQPWIbeZSsMK2nySUp9VmoZtTPF93xkVgVq2b2o4FdXILKVJmUvEnG0OBRhqH4OqYoJAVJutNMOl5diFw5f-JQvEry4UijgBTuuV0ylwS31ZTt1x_bUr5xkfISqU8Q4vcq0JIGC/s1083/Bridge1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font color="#000000" face="trebuchet"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1083" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7JtNXiQPWIbeZSsMK2nySUp9VmoZtTPF93xkVgVq2b2o4FdXILKVJmUvEnG0OBRhqH4OqYoJAVJutNMOl5diFw5f-JQvEry4UijgBTuuV0ylwS31ZTt1x_bUr5xkfISqU8Q4vcq0JIGC/w625-h329/Bridge1.jpg" width="625" /></font></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Teachers torture kids, maybe even you, with questions like this.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="743" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBUQ54dYbsFhXV-qXsY1Uqc3PazZlBDfiKye-iq3NPboJnLLrf5HZJ-4RM6JJ4A2d-Ky9M_9P4-W3Scp6F_bd1qY4r_wv-ljpRPM_J0e0ZmmPU6BqadNIo1DRj-HCCBu1KsEdDW7sjX0td/w625-h95/Bridge+2.png" width="625" /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">And getting the correct answer meant you were definitely wrong. You good kids would answer, thrusting your hands in the air, "Two thirds of a day!" I would ask shyly, embarrassed at not getting it, "Please miss, 'How big is the hole? Can they all work on it at the same time? Are their actions dependent on each other or independent? Do they have equivalent skills? Is there scope for innovation? Do they all have the same working hours each day?'" I suffered for my impertinence.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">With knowledge work or creativity the 'productivity-problem' with becomes even more intractable. Productivity was originally conceived as a useful measure of benefit per (human) effort. But now, does thinking up a creative solution to a problem at work, whilst you are in your kitchen cooking, count in the time or not?</font></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic;">Productivity i</span><font size="5"><i>s harder to define</i></font></font></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">We still need to have a sense progress. Are our efforts delivering better or not? We need this at a personal level, an organisational level, as a nation and even as a world struggling to become sustainable. Are we being more 'productive'?</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">My shorthand is that</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Value </span><span style="background-color: white;">(defined by the person delivered to)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span><span style="background-color: white;">the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Benefits </span><span style="background-color: white;">they get</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">minus </span><span style="background-color: white;">the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Costs </span><span style="background-color: white;">(financial and non-financial). Being more productive leads to an increase in the Benefits or a reduction in the Costs.</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Taking a long view, productivity in western economies has been on a downward sled-run since the 1970s. As long ago as 1997 the OECD and the US Bureau of Labour Statistics bulletins have charted this. As the transition from manufacturing to service-based jobs (which are less scalable and automated) progressed productivity fell. In the UK, Innovate UK sought my advice on the very tricky problem of closing the UK's productivity gap, so I know first-hand that this is a real concern.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Leading and managing groups of knowledge workers to deliver much more complex tasks and projects in the past decade has been another challenge. Forbes research showed that 36% of a manager’s time was spent in meetings and only 39% of meeting</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">s achieved their objectives. </font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">And now we have #covid.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic;">We now know that in a post-covid world we will have to </span><a href="https://imagineafish.blogspot.com/2020/05/imagine-you-knew-future-after-covid19.html" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">meld </a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic;">together location based working and remote working.</span></font></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">#Covid forced remote working and physical distancing. In particular it has broken businesses and industries which relied on packing people in like sardines; airlines, theatres, restaurants. It has decimated businesses which relied on the old tradition of </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">moving people to the work</em><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">or activity rather than</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">moving the work to the people</em><span style="background-color: white;">; the energy sector, coffee shops, lunchtime snack-bars and take-away restaurants, formal and office clothing, car parking, office real estate.</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">In one quick move #covid shouted loud to point out to all of us that the Emperor had no clothes. Our tradition, untested assumptions, insistence that people couldn't work unless they were face-to-face. C-suite executives have been amazed at how well they have coped. And according to</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-04-03-gartner-cfo-survey-reveals-74-percent-of-orgs-to-shift-some-employees-to-remote-work-permanently" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gartner </a><span style="background-color: white;">many (74%of CFOs) intend to do more in future. It is now impossible to deny that much of what we thought and did pre-covid was actually already obsolete and pointless ritual.</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">We have coped but have we been productive? A recent study by Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy was hailed as the first randomised test to show that remote working could actually boost productivity - by 13%. The study was of call centre workers.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic;"><font face="trebuchet">Remote working increases productivity ~13% (20%). For many though they are more productive because they are just working longer hours!</font></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Unfortunately, for most of us this will not apply. Have you never worked all night and weekend only to have a co-worker mess up and result in the whole team not delivering? For the vast majority the value we deliver does not depend on our actions only. We are part of teams and networks which pull together to deliver. That's why we can't extrapolate the research result above in the hope we will gain in productivity.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="744" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKRmwg-M0aLNtmiIZhRlD5adq1jxX4j2yCsKszR3BUN9DSs5CLgQSfWoKxiI5l55AkurSevEfIyzVEWsLJCHEO1LTOlZSTfxXtyKzlB3lVl8tCRpC98KV7Fw6zOqQkW8v8XYHcULAVvWu/w625-h229/Bridge+3.png" width="625" /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">If only a single </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">individual </span><span style="background-color: white;">is needed to deliver the result the bottlenecks are typically a lack of skill, knowledge, attention, motivation, tools, environment or capability and sometimes the poor skills and engagement of the 'command and control' pointy haired boss. To increase productivity directly address these. In the case of remote work people's attention and motivation are increased.</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">If </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">teams </span><span style="background-color: white;">or </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">networks </span><span style="background-color: white;">are needed </span><span style="background-color: white;">to deliver, the bottleneck </span><span style="background-color: white;">could be </span><span style="background-color: white;">an individual in which case the </span><span style="background-color: white;">remedy above applies. More likely </span><span style="background-color: white;">it is difficulty in collaboration, </span><span style="background-color: white;">ego's and poor team dynamics, </span><span style="background-color: white;">lack of culture or methods </span><span style="background-color: white;">to enable a diverse team, lack of </span><span style="background-color: white;">processes or common methods spanning the team. So far these have been difficult to address with a dispersed workforce.</span></font></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="949" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3AjQtuF1EJf_WKi6dxWQp7C3PyN4qryIL_kYEGsDVJng8AQRFkm1Fmy51uZepE1OJEJU-CuDcTzQOrZXrYTIZtQ2tja0_auFuI8SUC9kaxActqWRTOXvcsw8RG_BMs-uTBahIh-GzM4Qq/w400-h213/Bridge+4.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="400" /></font></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">At a </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">process </span><span style="background-color: white;">level it may be the decision cycle of meetings, or variability in certain steps of a process or poor project coordination. Diagnosing these politically sensitive bottlenecks is intensely difficult so far with our low skills of new work.</span></font></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">At an </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">enterprise </span><span style="background-color: white;">or </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">organisation </span><span style="background-color: white;">level the bottleneck could be the inability to respond to the new world or even budgeting and funding mechanism. Our covid coping methods and tools are not really set or capable of the transformation this requires to resolve.</span></font></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4F5OV5BAt7pYxqI6dVetn0l7MuxsgRkExvNbD7G53YWayrQRODwYdN-HUY9SkTpIgMW1884X09G-EI3AjYhKJzi0iUKpdQyriGk8kFSnYTAENwSjsbBboFxWK0EfLWKOul-Qa4fhSswp/s744/bridge5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font color="#000000" face="trebuchet"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="744" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4F5OV5BAt7pYxqI6dVetn0l7MuxsgRkExvNbD7G53YWayrQRODwYdN-HUY9SkTpIgMW1884X09G-EI3AjYhKJzi0iUKpdQyriGk8kFSnYTAENwSjsbBboFxWK0EfLWKOul-Qa4fhSswp/w625-h283/bridge5.png" width="625" /></font></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">If you survived #covid disruption then you, like all of us, simply went forward with what you had available at the time or you felt could be implemented fast! Second generation collaboration platforms and tools which were never intended to be used on their own, unsupported by a face-to-face office environment, became the standard.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">There was no time to swap culture to a trusting, empowering, interdependent culture so the existing risk averse, political factions were just carried over.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">There was no time to learn new processes or ways of working so the old 9 O'clock briefing or Wednesday stand-up just got recreated on Teams.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">And there was no time to fit or retrofit equipment so living spaces designed for lounging and eating became poorly designed places for sitting and staring at tiny laptop screens with poor posture.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">The second generation software tools we are using are ineffective for delivering the new learning needed or providing a sense of cohesion, so our issues remain hard to rectify and all the while your organisation culture unravels.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Three months later physiotherapists are in high demand, and mental health professionals report increased enquiries.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Employers who in the UK have a duty of care for safety face the terrifying challenge of ensuring psychological safety for a returning workforce many of whom may refuse to return. They will have to deal with the meld of office based and remote work.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>You will need a new place to work that </i></font></span></h3><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>everyone can get to easily</i></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>You will need a culture at work that </i></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>involves everyone fairly</i></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>You will need a new way to work that boosts</i></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i> your productivity creativity, innovation</i></font></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i> and engagement</i></font></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">The idea of a digital twin has been around for some time. Digital twins of the workplace have been created in virtual reality. But the last thing you are seeking is to reproduce the culture and ineffectiveness of your pre-covid world.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span>Imagine if you will, that you follow these </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 Steps to Bridge the Gap </span><span>between your old normal and the high productivity next normal:</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. DON’T FIGHT THE NEW WAR WITH OLD TOOLS: </em></span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify what specific aspects of tools, platforms and methods are still relevant. Break habits and minimise obvious solutions. Abandon second generation software 'collaboration tools'. Look for ways which make collaboration easier and more fluid the more demanding you are</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>2. SELECT A COLLABORATION 'ENVIRONMENT' OR 'WORLD':</b> </em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Look for a virtual environment which enables a full team collaboration experience which feels like being in the same room </em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>3.</b> <b>UNPLANNED INTERACTIONS AND STIMULATION:</b> </em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recreates the natural “informal” interactions that come from a shared coffee, seeing someone in the lunch room or from sharing a workspace</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><b><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. M</em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ANAGE '</em><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imagine-you-knew-future-here-prof-eddie-obeng-mba-phd-fellow-apm/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE MELD</em></span></a></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>' - REMOTE AND OFFICE MUST BE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD (The Fourth Dimension 4D): </b></em></span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Has an immersive ‘blended’ experience where if some people are physically present and other people are remote. The experience is exactly the same in terms of inclusivity, collaboration and interaction</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>5. WHAT IS IN IT FOR ME?</b> </em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Appropriately incentivise or provide allowances that truly enable people to be recompensed for using their home space as an extension of the office. Provide them with kick-ass equipment, a fully ergonomic workplace supporting the work and collaboration</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>6.</b> <b>PRODUCTIVITY AIMED/VALUE FOCUSSED/CUSTOMER CENTRIC:</b></em></span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Empowers and engages our people like never before – freeing them to spend time on customer impacting activity, while providing support, interaction and collaboration with colleagues like never before</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>7. SUPPPLIER/CUSTOMER/PARTNER FRIENDLY:</b> </em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Links to the huge opportunity of the gig economy to ensure that all partners, big and small, have the same opportunity for being immersed in seamless collaboration</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. UNIFIED, DIFFERENTIATED AND PERSONALIZED: </em></span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ensures inclusion and the power of diversity. That the same experience and opportunity is a reality for our associates, external partners, customers and everyone</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>9. SUSTAINABLE AND PLANET FRIENDLY: </b></em></span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Delivers a massive impact on our sustainability and CSR goals</em></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 2rem;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 2rem;"><i><font face="trebuchet">Just 9 Steps</font></i></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 2rem;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Have I missed anything out? I don't think so. Have you arrived in your productive new world? I have used these steps myself.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">For my</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://qube.cc/clients-cases/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">leading edge clients</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">and for</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://https%3B//PentacleTheVBS.com" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pentacle</a><span style="background-color: white;">, my boutique Business School, we live and work on</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">The simple, gender-neutral avatars encourage involvement and inclusion. And having your own avatar or qubot that is free to wander at your will, you don't need a permission-slip or to wait for the 'meeting to start' before you can engage with co-workers. It is such a relief and escape from the old, small-minded mindset of control.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">QUBE culture</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">is designed to get past the friction of egos. This means that it allows your teams to de-bottleneck. Learning and skilling-up is built in which means individual performance will not hold you back. The open collaborative atmosphere encourages resolving prickly political issues so that the overall organisation or enterprise can be productive. And the drive to innovation that allows the organisation to transform effectively means that your productivity is limited by opportunity only.</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">By now you have had three months of working remotely and using second generation collaborative tools. Now ask yourself when was the last time you:</font></span></div><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>Lay on your back on the cool grass</i>, gazing at cotton wool clouds drifting past on a blue sky whilst you reflected on performance KPIs with a co-worker?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>Said</i> <i>hello to</i> <i>20 colleagues</i> on the way to your office?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>Bumped into a colleague in the café</i> whilst you were having your tea break and were able to share an idea?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>Laughed out loud </i>spontaneously? Or jumped for joy?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Left a 2-hour session feeling <i>totally buzzing and energised</i>?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>Not had to create a slide deck</i> because your boss was able to walk around your project room (qubicle), understand what you’d done and left you precise constructive comments?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><i>Developed a full business case </i>for a difficult project with the key people in 15 minutes?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Found your <i>email box empty</i> of internal emails because all the important work had only one version of the truth you all contributed to?</font></li></ul><ul><li><font face="trebuchet" size="5">Were able to <i>resolve a two-minute query in two minutes</i> instead of a one-hour call?</font></li></ul><div><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><br /></font></div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>Each campus has many places to <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGNjl5LSAWI5iWrNnYlCl6WiXEYDJdLgYgmla5b-I_oDyAwA2W8qmL54lehcROcjRtnRzodx4zEXJYqkefBgpTI3dOTmOF0tXvjMmU8K00H_5BL4ObdSh-EqLLj5tetVypZgafkwDaFuh/s1920/Bridge+6.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGNjl5LSAWI5iWrNnYlCl6WiXEYDJdLgYgmla5b-I_oDyAwA2W8qmL54lehcROcjRtnRzodx4zEXJYqkefBgpTI3dOTmOF0tXvjMmU8K00H_5BL4ObdSh-EqLLj5tetVypZgafkwDaFuh/w400-h225/Bridge+6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></font></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">work, learn and laugh. You create</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5"> “ONE” CULTURE, a culture</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">which supports people, </font></span></div><div><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">performance </span><span style="background-color: white;">and</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">productivity. Your coffee breaks</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">will probably be spent gazing up</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet" size="5">at a blue sky, brainstorming with</font></span></div><div><font face="trebuchet" size="5"><span style="background-color: white;">co-workers, as the clouds spin by.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a good call. You and the Executive Leadership Team have been scoping out recovery after #covid19. You established the core business, evaluated it's capabilities, then you worked out which capabilities you were stronger than competition in and then reviewed how you would go to market with customers in new ways to recover the business. You have incorporated what you anticipate will be hangover requirements for social distancing, mental health support and provision of safe solutions. It's obvious which resources you can shed, both human and asset. You have a 100 day plan all set to go. Textbook! Just before you click off the CEO says, we're going to raise this from the ashes and make it even better than before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are embarrassed. You're trying to empathise with friends on a call but apart from the misery and horror of the pandemic, the biggest change for you has been having to wash your hands so frequently. You were working remotely before the pandemic. Well <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they </em>call it working remotely you and your team called it 'close collaboration'. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They </em>are raving about discovering a whole bunch of 2nd generation communication tools. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They </em>show off, they have new apps then complain that they're tired and haven't been able to do any work because of the back to back teams and zoom calls. You smile wryly because you know that webcams make people self-conscious and less open to listening. 2nd generation tools were always meant to be supplemented by face-to-face. Without face to face they are emotionally draining and intellectually poor. Their output may be up but that is because they are working longer hours not because they are more productive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">You heard a <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">talk </a>by <a href="https://eddieobeng.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Eddie Obeng</a> on how to transform to fit the reality of a complex uncertain fast-changing new world. You went on <a href="https://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE </a>five years ago. You learnt how to lead, innovate and deliver using shared thinking performance enhancement tools. <a href="https://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE's </a>featureless avatars made it safe and easy for even introverts and non-native English speakers to be together. The <a href="https://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE</a> tutors hammered home the culture of the virtual world which was basically the culture of creativity, collaboration, delivery and profitability every enterprise has aspired to since the nineties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">You look out of the window at the clear blue sky and notice a squirrel on the window sill opposite, as you listen to your friends. You marvel at the silence and flex your lower arm slightly showing clear muscular definition. This 'ill wind' of covid seems to have 'blown some good' for the other species on our planet. CO2 emissions are down. The black particulates which land on the polar ice, absorb heat radiation and speed up its melting are gone and even, you read the other day, whales and dolphins are singing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">You wish <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they </em>had done what you did five years ago. Life after #covid19 for you is going to the same blend of different, new and better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Inspired by David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, my Five Futures from after #Covid19 Lockdown, come from insights from clients & colleagues, my use of the <a href="https://qube.cc/PETs/FutureMapping" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">FutureMapping</a> Performance Enhancement Tool and from extensive reading blogs and not listening to the media. The human longing is for the Old Normal. But that is not going to happen. Sorry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Habits take about 100 repetitions to become set in concrete. Even as you read this you have already formed some terrible, draining, counterproductive, digital and behavioural habits due to the lockdown. Do you know what they are? Are you beginning to defend them because they may be terrible but they are comfortable and familiar? Will you ever give them up? How will you stop your new bad habits? The only way out is a learning program with strong disconfirmation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">For most, the cultural pressures of the old world organisation mean they must aim to create another phoenix. Same old - same old with a few tweaks and accessories aiming to get back to the same old grind. Is this you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only way to thrive in our new future is relentless learning. Relearn everything. I have been teaching about how to live and thrive in a world which changes faster than you can learn for over 25 years. I am still teaching how to think, act and behave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have created a programme just for you called <a href="http://mailto:Contact_us@pentaclethevbs.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MetaMorph</strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">After ten years of teaching, working and living on <a href="https://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE</a>. I have been connecting creatively and emotionally in a way that only 3rd generation collaboration tools like virtual worlds can. I can tell you that if you are going to have people working remotely, then have them learn to work closely. Have them learn to work out loud. Engage the whole person - not just their slack thread or 365 files. Let them be there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">That means use of digital solutions which last after you click off. They must be persistent like the qubicle rooms on the <a href="http://qube.cc/QUBECampus/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE campus</a>. We know why we love to be together to work in offices. We get the buzz, we get serendipity, we can co create easily, we can make friends. Imagine if you could do all that and be highly productive - perhaps five times as much. Your costs could reduce by half, your speed to customer double. And customer satisfaction treble. And imagine it could integrate into the rest of your life giving you the balance you need. Of course QUBE lets you be there just like real life but also gives you digital 'super powers'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But don't miss the non-business subtleties of 3rd generation digital collaboration. The saving in carbon emissions, the removal of the pressure to keep building and constructing. The fact that we don't have to cram ourselves into expensive cities and much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">But all of this is impossible unless your people learn new world ways to think and act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-weight: 600;">I have created a programme, MetaMorph, where you will Learn to Transform. I run it on QUBE so all your key people can go through the programme safely maintaining separation physically but closeness in thinking and collaboration.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-weight: 600;"> </span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MetaMorph </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-weight: 600;">will let you move fully and permanently move to your new world.</span></span></div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-45431719599326185922020-05-07T08:12:00.000-07:002020-05-11T03:26:06.170-07:00Managers who make the obvious changes to their Leadership will fail in the new World of Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the past ten years it has been clear leadership must move from 'Leading from experience'. Managers who learnt a better, inclusive way to lead during the past 10 years have replaced those who didn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the past three months it has become clear that leadership must move from 'Leading through presence and example'. Managers who learn how to lead and build cultures to thrive in adversity in our digital world of work will replace those who don't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We know why. It's because the New Normal is not Normal. The basket of skills we held up and benchmarked people against are now clearly wrong.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've led virtual teams in a remote working organisation teaching managers to innovate, lead and execute for 20 years. I've learnt to transform four things about myself; behaviour, emotions, actions and thinking. You may need a make-over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Leadership Myth</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Does your organisation have its own leadership model? Is the model based on a poplar frameworks? Is it based on authentic, motivational, empowering, pioneering leadership? Do these models assume the Leaders is in close, constant proximity with their people to drive behaviours and culture? Are your senior managers referred to as 'leaders'? Is the most senior group referred to as the Executive <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leadership </em>Team? Does your organisation confuse seniority and power with Leadership?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaders in the New Normal share leadership with others.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we are remote and distributed. Most experience has passed its sell by date. A leader is not just a senior person. A leader is simply someone with followers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You will have seen many of the obvious changes managers are making to their leadership. Some want to be more visible to their teams and have ramped up webcam time. Some want to be more present and have instituted 'Tea with the Team' to be more accessible. As you trawl social media you will trip over many leadership trends and advice from 'experts'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Organisation leadership has become distributed. It's moved from 'Leadership from the top' to 'Leadership from the front'. The 'front' is where the action is. The 'front' is the person immersed in innovation, skill, insight or customer closeness. Now, often the manager is not the best person to lead. By being more present managers crowd out a significant fraction of people who are introverts, or in this age of uncertainty, just a bit scared to progress. Leaders must focus on working to reduce all the barriers to other people participating. A big task is to reduce the 'fear of the new' to enable their people to adopt new ways. Leaders in the New Normal know when and how to share leadership with others. They know how to think differently in uncertainty and how to help others learn. They can manage the emotions of a group, even remotely. They select actions which frame the success of followers. And they project their behaviour to the maximum for impact and engagement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Behaviour</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A physical office means you can be present. Your behaviour (how you use your body to interact) can be used to help your leadership. Your coach has spent hours guiding you in how your behaviour has such a huge effect on your impact. You can match, mirror and pace your followers. You can demonstrate by how you hold your body, confidence or openness. But how will you achieve this in our New normal?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have found that among a few critical behaviours which will be important in leading distributed people is how you use your voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Emotions are critical in the development and maintenance of your culture as well as the immediate leadership needs. Emotions work because they are infectious. When the logic and facts are forgotten the memory of how the leader made you feel remains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> When the logic and facts are forgotten the memory of how the leader made you feel remains.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you work digitally and virtually it is easy to start a disagreement or misunderstanding but it is really hard to resolve and calm the waters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You have heard senior managers remark they are surprised how well people are working remotely. Really? What they are actually telling you is that they were so far behind the curve they had no knowledge or experience of 2nd generation communication software. Like skype, teams, slack or zoom. They had heard about them or seen them but never really understood them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a world of uncertainty and change a leader must be the first into the fog and risk so they can learn first-hand. Why? Because if you try to learn completely new things second hand your human confirmation bias (our tendency to look for what we expect not what is there) and cognitive dissonance (the process we use to dismiss what doesn't fit with our world view and 'hallucinate' to ensure we are still correct) will prevent you understanding what reality is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How will you prioritise which actions to take?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thinking</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classically, De Bono the thought guru, described thinking as that waste of time between seeing something and knowing what to do about it. Remember how tired you become after a day of new thoughts? Most of our activity is based on habits, heuristics, cultural guidance and following laid down processes. We're far too smart to waste energy thinking when we can use shortcuts. Now, your shortcuts are wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We're far to smart to waste energy thinking when we can use shortcuts. Now, your shortcuts are wrong.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You brain is going to need rewiring. Most of your assumptions and decision-making heuristics are broken. Did you know that in the most productive or creative digital meetings webcams are never used? Feels wrong? That's why your thinking needs rewiring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Future is Now. Don't wait until it's too late.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You, like me, know that the pace of change isn't slowing anytime soon. Don't wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want to learnt more about your future you can read the sister blog, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"</em><a href="https://imagineafish.blogspot.com/2020/05/imagine-you-knew-future-after-covid19.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine you knew the future. Here they are!</em></a><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do you Transform your Leadership?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The DIY version is quick and free:</span></div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Download and complete the <a href="https://qube.cc/pets/BEAT-Stick_to_it/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Leadership BEAT </a>tool And follow the instructions to start or stop to succeed.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alternatively:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have created a 6 week <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upgrade Your Leadership </em>programme for you to attend. It will be run on QUBE, probably the best learning environment in the world. I will be the programme director. <a href="http://mailto:Contact_Us@pentaclethevbs.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Contact_Us@PentacleTheVBS.com</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you complete the programme you will look back and wonder how you had expected to navigate the turbulent new normal with no map and using an upside-down table as a boat! You should sign up for this because you will be future ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So apart from the 'sales' pitch what have I learnt?</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dr Spencer Johnson in his amazing short book <i>Who moved my cheese?</i> Told us <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT </span>happens when people encounter change. Great short video if you've never seen it, you'll love it. As you know I teach <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW </span>to respond successfully. The way to succeed is to change your Behaviour, Emotional engagement, Actions and Thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You need to change your <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">B. E. A. T. </span>four areas and transform your leadership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">You will have noticed that it’s suddenly become more serious. You’ve probably already started the travel ban. And by now your Business Continuity plans are kicking in. But could this be a mistake to just ensure business continuity? After all, the key to momentum, is to do things differently for a while. And remember the true-old adage; </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Never waste a crisis’.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The corona virus #covid19 spread is a challenge to all of us. And yet there are many transformational opportunities. Over the past five years everyone has been obsessed by Digital Transformation. Billions have been poured into trying to digitally transform and yet according to Forbes less than 14% have had significant success. Why?</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Never waste a crisis</span></i></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">My own experience, I think, explains why there is so much heat on the topic but little light. I have travelled thousands and thousands of miles to physically be present to present keynotes, and board workshops on Digital. This is not me boasting. This is me failing. With every assignment I’ve asked, “Can I deliver the session digitally on QUBE*?” the answer in 100% of the many, many engagements has been a resounding and determined </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">no</em></span><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">. The irony of wanting to digitally transform and yet not embracing digital conferences is not lost on me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">There is a long list of arguments. From, </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'It’s too close to try something new' </em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">to </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Everyone else is travelling to the venue'</em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">. You will have heard or made some of your own.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You'll never get ME up in one of those things</span></i></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is little curiosity on what a digital event might mean. Most people assume it will be a typical non-interactive dreadful ‘webinar’ which they have experienced and hate. Or else they feel that somehow the emotion, buzz and energy of a packed conference can’t be reproduced digitally. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mostly though, I suspect the real problem is transformation. Transformation isn’t change. Transformation is about a fat multi-limbed caterpillar, with a fear of heights and a love of leaves, being transformed into a nectar drinking snazzily dressed flying machine. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do you run a pilot project on being a butterfly? There is resistance to change. Of course there is. No one wants to go first. Wisely, there is a lot of fear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But now you have a crisis, an opportunity. It would be such a waste just to continue business and miss this chance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Opportunities are never lost. Someone else will take the one you ignore</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And also, there is no other way to keep going given the scale of the disruption. You can travel digitally. You can #MoveElectronsNotAtoms. For this you need immersive digital technology which conveys not just files and documents but emotions, conversations and actions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You should try working on QUBE for a couple of weeks because afterwards you won’t remember what you were scared of.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;">We all know that Business Continuity is to ensure the continuity of the business. But sometimes the </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What</em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"> and </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How</em><span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif;"> get jumbled together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prof. </em><a href="http://eddieobeng.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eddie Obeng</em></span></a><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is Learning Director of </em><a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pentacle the Virtual Business School</em></a><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and author of New Rules for the New World. Twitter: </em><a href="https://twitter.com/EddieObeng" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">@EddieObeng</em></a></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">QUBE was originally created for Executive Education and Learning. It was quickly adopted by many clients including the UK NHS, Asahi, Danone and Fujitsu for day to day use. </span></em></div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-6317850234534315392019-06-10T01:37:00.000-07:002019-06-10T01:37:18.807-07:00Is your Digital Transformation Programme being De-railed by Psychopaths?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_93B8galSevICHYFLW84QcOf3PKRR8cpNNG-y1Ze3aM2gRP98BGXlZmB22TZPbbgcR3IyK9yLOo4g73TP0W1x-WJ1JaDDYlDkFXYpbJETRsrM8CrklTwqWG_oNfI5kWigQyhbbZOxW0o/s1600/Psycho.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_93B8galSevICHYFLW84QcOf3PKRR8cpNNG-y1Ze3aM2gRP98BGXlZmB22TZPbbgcR3IyK9yLOo4g73TP0W1x-WJ1JaDDYlDkFXYpbJETRsrM8CrklTwqWG_oNfI5kWigQyhbbZOxW0o/s640/Psycho.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Have you ever had problems with a stakeholder? Do you find that sometimes stakeholders just wont engage but actively resist? Have you ever been a ‘not so perfect’ stakeholder yourself?<br /><br />These days, everyone knows that if your programme or project is to succeed you must connect with your stakeholders. It’s hard to believe that at one time the word ‘stakeholder’ was new and had to be explained to project leaders. When I worked with project pioneers Colin Hastings and Wendy Briner at Ashridge in the 90’s that was the battle we faced. I can’t recall the number of times I was firmly told that I was wrong and that, “Only the most senior client’s opinion matters”. My big contribution to move from a single point of focus to understanding the bigger picture was my invention of the Stakeholder map. Something which now everybody knows is crucial and in many new and modern forms is now routine in your programmes. We told leaders to communicate with their stakeholders to find out what was needed and to let them know how it was going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The advice was sound but there was a problem. I discovered that in practice some stakeholders did not respond. They would not engage. However much you communicated they would remain hostile and resistant to change. The intention was communication but the challenge was engagement. Why wouldn't they engage? My next breakthrough came when Corporate Psychologist Bill Acker helped with my research. His insight was that people suffered from a condition called ‘Amygdala hijack and the habituating response’. Basically, a part of your brain responded like prehistoric man, or indeed any animal back to the dinosaurs. It saw change as a threat and put up an emotional blast-wall. Logic, clear communication or invitation to engage could not penetrate that wall. I wrote it up as the ‘crocodile brain’ of the caveman in my book <i>All Change!</i> But I needed a remedy. I advised on how important it was never to surprise stakeholders as this triggered a long term emotional check out. From my understanding of the habituating response (why with time what would have shocked you becomes normal and unnoticeable), I advised on how to thinly slice and repeat change to make it feel normal before going too far at each stage. But it took until a year after and more psychological advice and research to find the full solution. It turned out that people automatically become emotionally attached to their own ideas and to acting on them. In caveman terms, “never waste an idea to find more food”. The secret was introduce the Issue with little fanfare, provide lots of concrete, background information and Data then ask them a Question. Good questions focus on the future and what could be done (by them). In answering the question they would inadvertently become emotionally attached to the outcome of the project and Voila!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A course member described it as Ninja Mind trick, another as a Project Leader’s superpower, the <br />Issue-Data-Question-Build (solution together) format which you’ll be familiar with, now in many <br />modern forms, was born. If you’re unfamiliar there a QwikGuide at <a href="http://qube.cc/PETs/IDQB">http://QUBE.cc/PETs/IDQB</a>. In <br />it’s first big use case study, turkeys (employees) voted for an early Christmas (redundancy) and were <br />delighted!<br /><br />And then I began helping clients on Digital Transformation projects. I mean the real transformation projects where you completely break what you have, create brand new digital model and manage the transition all at the same time. Suddenly the IDQB superpower wasn’t working as well as it had. With about one or two times people in a hundred it just didn’t work. Their resistance was disproportionate and unexpected. Often they would simply make up stories to prevent progress with the transformation. One IT Network Lead claimed that an application which used a bandwidth of less than 1 MB/s would paralyse all corporate communications! Initially I put these occurrences down to mis-aligned rewards plus the normal human need to cover one’s ‘tracks’.<br /><br />Then, by chance in 2015 at TED London I met Jon Ronson. So I went off and read all his books including the one which gave me an insight into what I was encountering, <i>The Psychopath Test.</i><br /><br />Digital Transformation is different from normal change projects and programmes. Transformation takes power from those with power, it makes people vulnerable. Because there is a lot of new stuff people will often be wrong or feel that they are wrong. That is exactly the wrong environment for evena mild psychopath. Your challenge is that this type of mild brain anomaly means that they are not interested in things like corporate mission or organisational good but are running on their own agendas. Apparently even mild psychopaths are attracted to roles where they can be in control. CEO’s, CXOs, IT security, Digital architecture. These were the sorts of roles I was bumping against over and over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Change and Project Professionals are beginning to realise the importance of new developments in Neuroscience on their performance. But how do you even know if the person you are dealing with is in the 1% psychologists use a quiz called the Hare Test <a href="http://bit.ly/Hare-Test">http://bit.ly/Hare-Test</a> . In 42 questions you’re pegged from normal to psychopath. You, though, can’t ask your stakeholders to “Just take this test so I can tell if you’re normal.” For now I use the published advice on dealing with psychopaths which is to set up crucial encounters as an ‘exchange’ or deal. If the person seems confused I switch to IDQB for normal people. I’m still working on another breakthrough in this area. The alternative published strategies aren’t relevant for us and are probably best kept for use by psychologists.</span></div>
cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-59948572512503125912019-06-05T05:15:00.000-07:002019-06-05T05:15:54.815-07:00It could be that the purpose of #Brexit is to act as a warning on Change and Transformation to others<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />I know it's easy to scoff but after decades of educating for business change and transformation projects, I can honestly tell you most people have no inkling of just how complex the systems they work in are. They are blind (not stupid) to the interdependencies.</span><br />
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<i>Recently the UK Attorney General @Geoffrey_Cox said to @bbcnickrobinson in a BBC interview on#Brexit “I just feel we have under-estimated its complexity. We are unpicking 45 years of in-depth integration. This needed to be done with very great care, in a phased and graduated way. It needs a hard-headed understanding of realities”</i></span></h2>
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<br />The most blind, are people who have not had an education in systems thinking or isolation/experimentation. So, Lawyers, Accountants, English graduates etc., are often totally blind. But Engineers, Medical scientists, Geographers etc. are less so.<br /><br />Overall people are surprised when I ask them what they <i>don't want to inadvertently break</i> as they pursue their Transformation Change. They are dismissive when I ask them to create a causality map (<a href="https://pentacle.co.uk/webpets.nsf/Page.xsp?documentId=F15ED3CC59F1DD7D80257B1E006A6832&action=openDocument#content=key1">BubbleDiagram</a>) of how existing issues they are trying to fix originally arose.<br /><br />Because they don't understand interdependence & causality they genuinely believe that a new solution will do just that. Solve. And then have no further impact. The Law of Unexpected Consequences eludes them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />They don't understand the concept of 'fragility' popularised by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter%2ecom%2Fnntaleb">@nntaleb</a>. The recognition that some systems self-heal (eliminating the change you initiated) others simply collapse as a result of your change.<br /><br />They are incredulous when I get them to scan possible futures in order to select their favourite with a <a href="https://pentacle.co.uk/webpets.nsf/Page.xsp?documentId=FF26882D0FF3A39E80257B1E006935BF&action=openDocument#content=key1">FutureMap</a>. They struggle to understand that any action they take will initiate an action in every other stakeholder. They do not know that the First Law of Change is <i>"One Change Leads to Another"</i>.<br /><br />Any plan they make must anticipate and neutralise the unfavourable reactions from stakeholders. A plan missing this element is not a plan but just a wish. A wish that those who lose out from your change will not retaliate. And those who can take advantage won't either.<br /><br />They do not believe that <i>they will only deliver successful change or transformation <b>AFTER</b> they have learnt and implemented things they didn't realise ahead of time that they had to know.</i> I say to them, "If you already knew all you will need to know you would have fixed it ages ago. Have you fixed it?" I use my <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world">WorldAfterMidnight </a>tool <a href="https://pentacle.co.uk/webpets.nsf/Page.xsp?documentId=DBA7C7A7C7BC429880257B1E0068D1CE&action=openDocument#content=key1">EvolveDominateOrDie</a> to provide the contrast so they can see their learning deficit.<br /><br />I've written several articles on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter%2ecom%2Fhashtag%2FBrexit%3Fsrc%3Dhash">#Brexit</a> as a change/transformation project (no politics). I said it would 'fail' because it was too foggy (lack of goal and method) to be led by politicians who can only talk 'certainty'. It is too large (not chunked up), so any risk applies to the whole project. By 'fail' I mean that the <i>effort/investment </i>will be much more the <i>benefits</i> in both hard (tangible/financial etc) and soft (relationship/ motivation/country brand abroad etc.) measures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Agile is <b>The Big Thing</b> in change these days because it helps us deliver results fast, whilst they are still relevant. Agile is <b>The Big Thing</b> in business, public sector and enterprises because it helps our sluggish organisations respond faster to disruption and uncertainty. It's a Lean approach to give us focus. We all know that.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Some of us know how to select from a smorgasbord of methods and to persuade colleagues to undergo behaviour change. Some of us know the MUSTs such as ‘Environment matters – use one centralised room’. Some of us understand when to use agile and when not to, finding it useful for taking confident sprints through the fog which prevents the traditional methods working. Some of us know Agile means seeing your colleagues daily, having a sandbox to play in, using talking to substitute for documentation and re configuring office spaces for more whiteboards and collaboration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><img height="360" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQHErQs-2LIlpw/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232/0?e=1565222400&v=beta&t=CCnJkuOoKHYrEW4QCLAZ4t3QSoNYIQiu1gWhvYF8yic" width="640" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Most of us think that this is enough. And it is. If your business enterprise is small and your project team are co-located and you have few external dependencies. Then it is. Your teams and key business leaders can meet for a stand up as frequently as they wish. But what if team members have to commute for an hour to come to the office for a stand-up? What if you are a global business and that instead means a flight? What if you have team members in other organisations and widely dispersed? What if your work crosses time-zones? What if talking can get in the way because people have different first languages and writing is clearer?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />In those cases, and in many more, it is not enough. And none of us have an obvious solution. Instead we move from weekly to monthly sprints which are expensive as they involve flying people around the world. And we can’t fly everyone so many are left out. Stand-ups are replaced by conference calls which in turn become one person talking and 23 people, on mute, doing their emails. The Product Owner becomes remote and is always out of touch. Slowly, originally distant on the time horizon, key event deadlines jump closer and closer at each review finally getting too close to feel comfortable about. ‘Calming panic’ ensues and teams are rushed together into one physical place for a couple of weeks, at vast expense to “get the job done”. In short, <b><i>your Agile approach has become Fragile.</i></b></span><br />
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<i>“ No thanks mate. We’re too busy!”</i></span></h2>
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<br />Imagine if you will, that you could simply step through a door, from anywhere you are into a dedicated Agile workroom. Imagine if you can walking round the room. It’s a huge room with two skylights through which you can see the clouds scurrying across the blue sky. The brick walls give it a modern edgy feel. But you are here to work so you are now visiting whiteboards with last week’s stickies from the last stand-up you had. You can simply read them to remind yourself of what was agreed without having to resort to your notes. As you cross the room to a team area you see individual kan-ban boards for each of your team members. One of your key supplier’s team members is stood up at his kan-ban typing in a sticky note. You feel a jolt of surprise as you know that it must be late at night for him. After all he’s on the other side of the world. Dedication? Or panic? You wander over to speak to him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Imagine how you feel two minutes later as your short verbal conversation has resolved a tricky challenge you had which would have taken about twelve emails or at least 40 lines to understand and resolve on Slack. Then imagine. you wander across to the Product Owner’s board and watch a short video of the last thoughts of the Product Owner. This is much better than discovering the requirements second or third hand. Their vision is your vision.<br /><br />And now imagine you walk through the door to another room dedicated to a different project you’re involved in. The layout is familiar. You glance upwards at the blue sky with scurrying clouds. This one is a bit more noisy. Fifty of your colleagues from the scrum teams are sitting at café stools just catching up and sharing stories for a few minutes before the Product Owner’s stand-up. It’s great for motivation and relationship building and you remember why these Agile projects seem to go twice as fast as ones in the past. You join in a conversation at a table with a joke. It feels great.<br /><br />You have just imagined Agile-on-QUBE. Through eight years of development and research we’ve created for you the perfect agile working environment. The Agile Manifesto was written before most of us entered the digital age. On QUBE we take it to the next level<br /><a href="http://qube.cc/"><img height="407" src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E12AQFtUBfRwj9lcw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0?e=1565222400&v=beta&t=q8Epd7Ww9-2pMHMGy882azhKuXJVGlujU0RifAy0ba8" width="640" /></a><br /><br />You may even decide that it’s better than life. We think so. The consensus is that it is ground breaking.<br /><br /><i>“I found the experience extraordinary. It is a credible alternative to physical events of this kind, in fact more than that.” Jonathan Norman Gower Publishing</i><a href="http://qube.cc/">QUBE</a>* is lining up to be <b>The Next Big Thing</b>. Everyone who experiences QUBE* leaves it touched and inspired by the opportunities. With thousands of registered accounts featuring many of the world’s top businesses and public sector organisations, and combined working/learning campuses equivalent to the square footage of six Empire State Buildings. And don’t worry that somehow your other tools will be duplicated, replaced or made obsolete. And most important of all, don’t worry that you are far too busy to adopt QUBE working. You aren’t. The step change you will gain will mean the longer you leave it before getting on QUBE, the more you will have struggled needlessly. Think of that famous cartoon of the stone age men dragging a cart filled to the brim with heavy rocks but on square wheels. The cartoon shows them panting and sweating with the effort. Alongside them there is a stone age inventor, a prehistoric Steve Jobs who is offering them round wheels to which they reply, “No thanks mate. We’re too busy!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />AoQ <b>promoters</b> – people who help us spread the message and evangelise to attract more users and coaches. We reciprocate by sharing our success with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />AoQ <b>users</b> – people who want to move from Fragile to Agile for their businesses, organisations or projects. You win because on QUBE, on average, projects go at twice the speed and require half the resource. Plus, the boost in your relationships and team spirit are hard to put a price on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />AoQ <b>Pentacle Leads</b> – Our team who provide the learning, the spirit and concrete results are led by Simon Cooper, formerly Global Head of Agile Transformation at the global financial leader JPMorgan. It really doesn’t get much better than Simon.<br /><br />Well you can’t be Simon so which one will you be?<br /><br /><br /><a href="mailto:Contact_us@PentacleTheVBS.com">Contact_us@PentacleTheVBS.com</a><br /><br />Discover QUBE is a 1.5 hour session costing £1000 with a full money back guarantee if you are unconvinced. When you proceed this QUBE Discovery fee will be taken off the cost of the project. We have to charge so we are not overwhelmed with less serious requests<br /><br />_______________________________________<br /><b>*What is QUBE?</b><br /><br />QUBE is the integration of three powerful processes.</span></div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-90574412870491432082018-02-25T08:47:00.000-08:002018-02-25T08:58:42.059-08:00Making Project Management Great Again?<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-top: 32px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Eddie Obeng wonders what lessons leaders, change agents and project managers can learn from Donald Trump's first year in office.</h3>
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You laughed. I know you did. So did I when I saw the orange, furry ball announce he was running for president of the USA. We predicted he'd drop out in a week . We were wrong. We were shocked when we heard about the Wall. We all predicted he was finished. We were wrong. Then we laughed when we heard he was going to be in the Republican debates. We shook our heads from side to side knowingly and said, ‘He'll come last.’ We were wrong. We predicted he'd never get nominated. We were wrong. Then we laughed when the Access Hollywood tapes came out and predicted he was finished.</div>
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We were wrong.</div>
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We laughed at the chaos when he hired Scarramucci who fired his Chief of Staff Priebus and then ‘blew up’ publicly. And then realised we had missed the point. Scarramucci had just been an effective hatchet man. Even today as I write this, President Trump is in a hole, which the mainstream media tells us he is trying to dig his way out of and definitely will not succeed.</div>
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Because of my job as a business educator when I get so much wrong I don’t just brush it away and pretend I’m correct. I panic. It's a sure sign that I'm missing or misunderstanding something big. But what? What are we missing?</div>
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As the year ended, I was astonished to discover just how much he had executed of his plans in just a single year. I’m firmly against any anti-environmental policies but whether you like his policies or not if you google them, you’ll find a long, truly impressive list. It includes appointing the Judge he promised, pulling out of the Paris Climate accord and getting China and Russia on-side against North Korea. We’re used to politicians promising everything and then failing to deliver either because they won't, but mostly because they can't. Trump is a new phenomenon: A politician who succeeds when we think he should fail, and delivers.</div>
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As someone involved in change you know that execution is one of the most difficult things we do in business. It's even harder in government where the processes can be archaic and people risk averse.</div>
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Now I want you to forget whether you approve of Trump or not. Instead, explore the technicalities of his project approach. So how has he done it?</div>
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When I was researching my book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Change-Project-Handbook-Financial/dp/0273622218" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgb(0, 115, 177); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0073b1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgb(0, 115, 177); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 19.4px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Change! The Project Leader’s Secret Handbook</em></a> I found six levers with the biggest impact on project success:</div>
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Type of change:</h3>
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Change can be concrete. Almost '<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">painting by numbers'</span> or it can be goal oriented/'<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">quest'</span>-like or uncertain like trying to find your way out of a '<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fog'</span>. In successful projects the leader recognises that each type requires a different approach. Trump’s freewheeling, unstructured (agile?) style meets the needs of a fast-changing complex world.</div>
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LEADERSHIP:</h3>
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Despite the 'fogginess' of the situation, his vision statements are clear and unambiguous. They are also very memorable. Make America Great Again on a red hat, The Wall, Cutting red tape (he actually filled the room with paper to show how much red tape they were planning to cut!). His team have a clear metric of direction. He is always upbeat and positive about his projects: “It's going to be great”. And he lavishes praise on people he thinks are doing well -Law enforcement and immigration officials - whilst viciously kicking anyone who tries to get in his way.</div>
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He has a huge appetite for risk even in areas he is clueless about such as taking on ISIS head to head. He de-risked it by inviting all the Generals and getting them to propose which amongst them would be most likely to succeed. And then he 100% backed the choice. By using a peer approved solution he aligned the wider team and avoided internal fights.</div>
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Team members are highly praised when appointed. But team members who do not perform are ruthlessly removed or replaced until the right fit for the role is found. Development and support seem to be largely absent.</div>
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LEARNING AND REVIEW:</h3>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=qaD1c3CVeLQ" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgb(0, 115, 177); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0073b1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Every week he delivers a five minute summary of the week</a> to ensure the key points of the project are understood by all the team and stakeholders. He constantly pivots and retracts and changes his approach and positions. Often putting two slightly different offers forward to see which gains the most traction. His recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKblXAikzEc" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px none rgb(0, 115, 177); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0073b1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">'Listening' session with people affected by school shootings</a>, is a departure from the norm.</div>
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STAKEHOLDERS:</h3>
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For his election he decided on the KPI of ‘winning’. That decision defined precisely which stakeholders he needed to engage and get on side. He completely ignored all those who were non-stakeholders and so won the election whilst losing the popular vote. And his stakeholders think he's great because he focussed on their stakeholder success criteria.</div>
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So I’m not laughing any more. I’m beginning to understand why we were so wrong with our predictions. We were not the stakeholders he was delivering the project to. So to him, our opinions were irrelevant. I will continue to study and read up about this most peculiar of project managers.</div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-51587531670497506742017-11-09T12:05:00.000-08:002017-11-09T12:06:19.055-08:00Design and Innovation in a Changing World<h2 style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 26px; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.8rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLV5bdMMWzYkaz8PHiNcoO_3gbELD4c3eIuQLSoUH8Xu21rCeXTb94OI9swcoirxKbXa7TDaLrG-eNRRUMiqe3pVh5dbUFz_SNtEvcvR7QKkQhvO8nebCuv1cv21vjuYjSAcdN1v1sZ3kV/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLV5bdMMWzYkaz8PHiNcoO_3gbELD4c3eIuQLSoUH8Xu21rCeXTb94OI9swcoirxKbXa7TDaLrG-eNRRUMiqe3pVh5dbUFz_SNtEvcvR7QKkQhvO8nebCuv1cv21vjuYjSAcdN1v1sZ3kV/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a>My connection with the Design world began in 1998 when I was invited by the CEO of the UK Design Council to develop a programme for their staff to help them communicate Design in a relevant way. Design had been championed in the UK in 1944 by Winston Churchill to elevate the country’s industrial standards. Through the 1970’s and 80’s Design in the UK had been made prominent through two mechanisms. The first was a triangular tag attached to products indicating good design or the receipt of an award. The second was a huge exhibition display space in a prime retail area on London’s Haymarket called The Design Centre. The centre was closing and the council staff had been trying to travel the country to raise interest in industry. At that point in the evolution of Design, <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Design was firmly aesthetic with some emphasis on functionality but the focus was heavily on products and the packaging of ideas.</i></span></div>
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Through a series of workshops I worked to re-frame how the staff thought about the value of Design from the point of view of industry. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I moved their focus from thinking about Design for its own sake to the business impact of Design on industry and community</i></span>.</div>
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This significant break is the basis of the modern Design thinking movement.</div>
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New Thinking for Design</h2>
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Shortly after this I began working for Colin Burns CEO IDEO UK (now Chief Design Officer BBC), Colin had asked me to help because, as traditional design projects were being competed away, the new project opportunities didn’t fit the culture processes and skills and caused tension among the staff. These new opportunities were less about a manufacturer providing a technical solution to which Design was to be applied to make it stand out in the market place. They were further up the invention chain. In addition, delivering the projects was highly stressful and challenging.</div>
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I introduced and taught my ‘New World’ approach to projects to the UK agency to enable the organisation to deal with more complex and less traditional design briefs. By allowing the agency to move away from tightly pre-defined product or outcome-based briefs to more fully engage in well managed projects, evolving from user needs and using ethnographic information as well as rapid prototyping, I provided the enabler to the early steps of User-Centred Design.</div>
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All the models I teach arise from my overarching World After Midnight framework. Simply put, the model frames the ‘flip’ all organisations have faced from the traditional ‘<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Old World’, where you could learn faster than your environment </i></span>changed to a <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘New World’</span> which is the reverse. Assumptions and processes which were viable become obsolete as the ‘flip’ happens. I have discovered that this re-framing is an incredibly effective way to think about how to approach all of the challenges of this early 21st century. My TED Global Talk on the World After Midnight Model (WAM) thinking framework is an excellent starting point to understanding how to apply this philosophy.</div>
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A key conclusion of recognising the WAM effect is to move away from traditional theory based learning to modular design & delivery of learning. In addition <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">because of the need for speed in execution success is less dependent on what individuals know but more dependent on their ability to animate together.</i></span> I developed Performance Enhancement Tools (PETs) which are used collaboratively to align creative thinking without the need for extensive explanations of theory. There are some examples below.</div>
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In the ‘Old World’ projects were led from experience with clear briefs/ objectives and common processes to deliver them. I call this type of project ‘painting-<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">by-numbers</span>'</i></span><i><b> </b></i>because of the similarity of the process to the children’s painting books. The New World however gives rise to projects where the processes have to be developed during the project (going-on-a-<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">quest</i></span>), projects where the brief itself is uncertain (making-a-<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">movie</i></span>), to completely open projects of an exploratory nature which must deliver a business outcome (lost-in-the-<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fog</i></span>)!</div>
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The best method to deliver success is different. For example milestone sign-offs for the painting-by-numbers to parallel prototyping for the quest. (Quest projects at IDEO were immortalised in the ‘ABC Nightline’ documentary on the shopping cart project) For each project type, the best suited leader has different characteristics. From the organised delegator of the painting-by-numbers to the ultra-humble, communicative learner who succeeds in the fog. Introducing the different project types, approaches and leadership styles provided the robust flexibility which Design Thinking methods would build upon.</div>
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The learning program was extended by David Kelly to the San Francisco agency. Then working with Tim Brown, we developed the blueprint for IDEO 2.0 world-wide, re-aligning IDEO from a ‘traditional’ design agency to a Design Thinking based organisation tackling wider and strategic challenges. Making IDEO the powerhouse it is today.</div>
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My project concepts such as ‘Foggy’ projects and how to deal with them are taught in several Design schools and use is made of the Method cards developed by IDEO based on my book <i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Change!</i></div>
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Accelerating Innovation</h2>
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Before my connection with the Design world began in the mid 1990’s, I’d been approached by SONY with a counter intuitive dilemma. For some time I had been trying to popularise a redefinition of innovation as separate from creativity or inventiveness and defined innovation as the process of transforming (new) ideas into money (societal benefits). </div>
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By my definition SONY had an innovation problem. It seemed that the more creative ideas they generated for innovation the fewer innovations were delivered and worse the innovations were more mediocre/’me-too’ and made little money! I had learnt from my WAM framework that the only research worth doing in the New World is causality-based research. Typical research in innovation involves interviewing innovators or studying innovative organisations and then listing the most common traits and characteristics. In the Old World, more stable and predictable business environments, collecting information on occurrence or incidence today gave a good view of tomorrow. Other research involves finding patterns. For example, organisations of a certain size are four times more likely to innovate than others twice their size and so on. Correlations can also be extrapolated with some degree of success in the Old World. But SONY was in its World After Midnight. The move away from analogue cameras and towards smaller cameras was causing significant damage to profitability. So I created a ‘Bubble Diagram’ or causality map from interviewing a few key people. Asking them, “Why?”. Validating their answers for both presence and null. The diagram was enormous and complex and you can use the link below to immediately access a headache. The reason for the counter intuitive outcome was simply that the total investment pot was fixed. That meant the more ideas they collected the more strenuous the weeding-out process had to be to ensure significant investment per idea. Weeding out began early in the life cycle and led by sensible ‘finance types’. Sensible people killed off all the unfamiliar ideas with indeterminate business cases and soon after any not showing ‘promising progress’. This left only mediocre/ me-too ideas to emerge late!</div>
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1. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating the Opportunity</span></div>
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We have not organised ourselves to create, capture improve, visualise and manage ideas</div>
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2. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Achieving Focus</span></div>
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We have not made sure that we can assess the value/ relevance/ strategic fit/ balance of today vs. tomorrow/ commercial sense of ideas</div>
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3. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Engaging Commitment</span></div>
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We have not removed all the barriers to progress/ Involved all the people we need/ Ensured they understand how to thrive with the innovation to and Emotionally prepared ourselves</div>
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4. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Making it Possible</span></div>
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We have not de-risked the innovation internally/ externally and in terms of realisation?</div>
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5. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Making it happen</span></div>
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We have not set-up the right type of project for making money/Getting benefits from the innovation and learning/ identifying patterns</div>
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The second conclusion is that for most organisations <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">one (and at most two) of these five provides the only bottleneck to innovation.</i></span> So improving that single dimension has a proportional increase in delivered innovation. For most of the organisations studied the biggest bottleneck was Creating the Opportunity to innovate so resolving that would directly accelerate innovation.</div>
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Creating the Opportunity to Innovate</h2>
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There were two significant barriers to creating the opportunity to innovate. The first was a very real fear of failure. Fearing failure only makes logical sense in the ‘Old World’ where most actions are replicas or extensions of what has gone before. In that world, avoiding avoidable mistakes means that failure is almost by default a bad thing. Many organisational cultures abhor and punish failure. Simply telling people to ‘take risks’ will not overturn decades of blame and intolerance for failure. But in our real ‘New World’ there will be occasions where previous learning can be used but in terms of innovation almost everything is outside those limits. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So now there are two ways to fail. Failing when you could have used prior knowledge – I call this ‘Dumb Failure’. And failing on a breakthrough – I call this ‘Smart Failure’</i></span> I also argue that Smart Failure should be praised and rewarded.</div>
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I now will no longer begin a culture change programme with a client, without encouraging the Senior leadership team to adopt the language of ‘Smart Failure' in their messages and communications. Remember the aim is still to avoid failure. Failure is not good because, repetitive failure without success tends to dampen the energy, enthusiasm and creativity of a team. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So alongside adopting the language of Smart Failure I teach ‘prelimination’ that is how to see and prevent problems before they arise.</i></span> Focus on prelimination means Smart Failure cannot be labelled by sceptics as a reason for sloppiness.</div>
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The other barrier to Creating the Opportunity is a failure to recognise that ideas are fundamentally different and suffer different risks in turning them into money / benefits. The BubbleDiagram showed that ideas originating from within the organisation are often well funded & championed but tend to fail when they meet the user or customer. Ideas from real needs or insights tend to be forced into ‘skunkworks’ and often fail to gain traction in the organisation. </div>
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From this insight I developed my Sparq model. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I balance ‘Push ideas’ – arising from internal creativity and invention in the organisation</i></span> <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with ‘Pull ideas’ originating from human or technical needs and insights.</i></span> </div>
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Further, I split these into ideas arising from human or technical sources. By re-framing different forms of innovation based on the initial source of the ideas I was able to de-risk delivery and also provide a view on why different industries and groups have all claimed innovation their own whilst disagreeing on how to make it happen.</div>
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The Sparq map explains why different sectors, fashion, film, research, invention marketing etc. all insist on different routes to innovation. The development of Design Thinking championed by the likes of Matt Marsh and Tom Kelly is a ‘land grab’ into another territory. </div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Design expands from it’s traditional position in the bottom right hand corner to embrace the human dimension. This is the realm of User centred/ insight driven Design Thinking.</i></span></div>
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This, insights and inventions which balances ‘push & pull’ ideas, has been widely adopted across the design world. I have written more about this in my book <i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who Killed the Sparq</i></div>
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Enter the Double Diamond</h2>
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By the mid 2000’s I had become a non –Executive Director of the UK Design Council under CEO David Kester and along with celebrated designers, such as Joe Ferry of Virgin and Jonathan Sands of the ever award winning Elmwood, was facilitating a workshop that I was also participating in. I had been stressing my analogy that in innovation it is important not to attempt to breathe in whilst breathing out – my analogy for the incompatibility between divergent and convergent thinking. It was a lively discussion and then I noticed our illustrator had drawn on the white board the now iconic shape of the Double Diamond.</div>
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The double diamond has gone on to become one of the most popular and enduring process frameworks for Design Thinking. Quite simply the Double Diamond process is the clearest process for Teaching and applying Design Thinking.</div>
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The role of Digital in Innovation Today</h2>
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Digital Transformation has provided more opportunities for innovation. Big data and AI propose the extraction of insights from large data sets. With time they will come to be used alongside Ethnography in the first of the two diamonds. I believe that immersion in big data sets will actually help humans to improve their intuition.</div>
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The digital opportunity I see as most relevant in my role as an educator and enabler is Virtual Reality. Learning in a virtual environment has all the advantages of a real one and more. The ability to link activities and actions to a place in a room improves memory retention. Dialogue and discussion by voice instead of just text communicates nuance needed in generating insights and serendipity. But there are advantages over real life. Brainstorms can be faster as everyone has perfect access to flipcharts and whiteboards. All ideas are retained. Anyone in the world can participate, so users can be brought in to the process early. And the fact the rooms can be left intact and returned to on demand 24*7 has an enormous advantage in creative continuity. And finally there a culture of egalitarianism and openness you cannot replicate in real life. </div>
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I have developed QUBE for teaching Innovation, Complex project Delivery, Design Thinking and also for the follow-on, real life delivery and execution to reach the result. The use of Performance Enhancement Tools and active facilitation means that there is collaboration as well as creative tension. After over eight years of delivering innovation digitally on QUBE, I continue to learn and be amazed at how fast, surprising and engaging the process can be.</div>
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Conclusion</h2>
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Digital Design and Innovation together perhaps provide the most powerful lever for business growth, productivity and for creating a much happier society. We have all the thinking. We have all the tools and processes. We know the behaviours required. Now it’s just up to us to use make it happen</div>
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References</div>
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World After Midnight TED talk http://bit.ly/EddieObengTED</div>
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World After Midnight Book New Rules for the New World Wiley Publishing ISBN 1-900961-15-6</div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-55368196553176557282017-08-10T02:58:00.000-07:002017-08-10T02:58:53.226-07:00Why is Enterprise Virtual Reality missing from your Digital Strategy?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you begin to finalise your Digital Strategy for 2018, you may be surprised to discover that less than 3% of businesses have included Enterprise Virtual Reality in their mix.</div>
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<a href="http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3412017" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gartner</u></a> has stated that Virtual Reality is out of the “hype-cycle” and is mature enough to be deployed in digital transformation. So you might wonder why this low representation in Digital Strategies? Why is there so little engagement in a technology ripe for exploitation? <a href="https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-virtual-reality-business-applications" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Accenture </a>have estimated funding has exceeded $8.8 billion with the anticipation of markets worth $120 billion</div>
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You may have ignored Enterprise Virtual Reality (VR) because the pop-Technology Media portray all VR in terms of specialist headsets designed for consumer experiences. Or they focus on Augmented Reality for data visualisation. It is difficult to imagine either of these use-cases as strategically important to most enterprises. So if that is your concern you are correct to have ignored it. Systems like <a href="http://www.envelopvr.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Envelop </a>combine headsets and the workplace ignoring obvious health and safety issues. Others like <a href="https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality-environments/cave.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Cave </a>provide you with custom built rooms.</div>
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You may have ignored it because you were uninspired reading the same tired old yawn-making list of VR 'advantages'; saves business travel, helps view products, training new staff, dealing with remote workers... And you probably thoroughly enjoy your business trips and collecting your airmiles. Plus the bonus of bragging about being 'out of the country'.</div>
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However many versions of Enterprise VR use your current technology investment. Even businesses running Microsoft XP can use versions EVR to transform the performance of your organisation. No goggles required! EVR solves many of your typical challenges such as how to get better head-to-head collaboration, how to be more agile across functions, how to accelerate innovation and how to embrace remote workers. Enterprise VR removes boundaries & barriers, makes a global business fully-transparent and enables digital transformation.</div>
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EVR is not designed for gaming, simulation, entertainment visualisation or any of the pop-Tech uses but instead for two specific purposes:</div>
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Products from <a href="http://www.daden.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Daden</a>, <a href="http://www.protonmedia.com/case-studies" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Protosphere </a>and the market leader <a href="http://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">QUBE </a>are well worth a look. <a href="http://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">QUBE</u></a> claims to have a virtual floor area equivalent to ten times the London Shard! The three vary widely in their design & use philosophy but all promise, and do offer, the foundation for real digital transformation. The lead offers focus more on changing behaviour of the users than on 'bolting-on' additional technology. The purpose is to drive ways of working and create a truly digital culture supporting, collaboration, innovation, speed & agility and boundarylessness.</div>
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Unlike a few years ago it is easy to find <a href="http://www.in0v8.scot.nhs.uk/enabling/qube-in-the-nhs/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">use-cases</a>, proven application, examples and even roll-out and adoption stories. There is no longer a need to speculate about possible uses for EVR.</div>
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The results are impressive strategically, operationally and culturally. Senior leaders report that they align more easily and also provide global leadership of execution with less stress. In tangible terms, costs typically halve as speed quadruples. Innovation is higher as the organisation adopts new ideas and technologies. Stakeholder and staff engagement increase, as does the adoption of a digital culture. At the same time participants report that they build <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">better</em> working relationships <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">faster</em>, have more laughter, feel less inhibited about being creative and introverts feel that they are able to participate fully.</div>
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During August, before the frantic September restart, you may be able to carve out time to explore EVR. It is easy to get full demonstrations from the lead providers.</div>
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If you are already committed to running a ‘proof-of-concept’ or pilot in early 2018 why not consider setting aside $10-75K for this now. Typically, once you adopt Enterprise Virtual Reality no additional budget will be required. New benefits and performance can simply be covered by transfer from legacy inefficient activities you will now not need to do. So you will not need to specifically budget for downstream adoption of Enterprise VR.</div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5356690758929497572.post-31430178062842737202017-06-05T07:03:00.002-07:002017-07-19T10:01:55.627-07:00Shock revelation: IT companies struggle to use technology for collaboration!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There was a fashion for jokes about the obvious. I recall one about the Pope & Catholicism and another about big, brown bears & woods. We expect certain connections. So it is an enormous shock that IBM, one of the worlds leading proponents of cloud based, mobile, digital solutions, <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40423083/ibms-remote-work-reversal-is-a-losing-battle-against-the-new-normal" target="_blank">now insists it's employees come to the office daily or travel to specific 'work hubs'</a>. [Thanks to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ian-hesketh-31180324/" target="_blank">Dr Ian Hesketh</a>]<br />
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IBM's managers have recently become paranoid, non-trusting, control freaks who no longer care about their staff's point of view</blockquote>
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So IBM are reversing the trend? But why? In my opinion it's probably because of one of two things:<br />
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1. <i>IBM's managers have recently become paranoid, non-trusting, control freaks who no longer care about their staff's point of view.</i><br />
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2. <i>IBM's leaders recognise that their business is under severe threat of disruption and needs to change it's game extremely quickly. They realise they need an exemplary level of collaboration, creativity and execution.</i><br />
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Because of buzz-word fashion, words quickly lose their true meaning as they are stretched and skewed to fit marketing messages. So just so we can travel together let me tell you what I mean by some of these words. By <b>collaboration</b> I <i>don't</i> mean teamwork. I <i>don't</i> mean document sharing, even with office 365! I mean <b>'thinking together'</b> as scientists did in the good old days before the grant system. By <b>creativity</b> I don't mean one-day hackathons. I mean <b>co-creation</b>. Including the best people of multiple disciplines and none, so that the ideas are not only innovative but also do-able. And by <b>execution</b> I mean rapid <b>delivery without resistance</b> to change because the process of execution has been <b>engaged in by all the key stakeholders</b>.<br />
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The challenge the IBM leaders face, like many organisations trying to digitally transform, modernise, take advantage of the cloud etc. is that there is a lot of noise and fashionable hype which purports to be collaborative, virtual or remote working but isn't.<br />
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My definition of a conference call is one person speaking and 12 people continuing to do their emails! </h3>
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When you read and update your facebook page or tweet or join in to post on your company yammer. You are interacting but with these applications you never connect <i>directly</i> with another human being you simply <a href="http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/i-dont-want-to-interact-with-data-i.html" target="_blank">interact with data</a>. I type and post you read you type and post. There is no conversation, overlap, tumbling and blurred edges as we build on ideas together as there is in a face to face conversation. Because of the lack of overlap, serendipity is low. Ownership of the idea is mine or yours and there is no opportunity to <b>think</b> together. (That's why we can easily move towards calling each other Hitler!) When you converse on skype or lync with your webcams, apart form staring at each other's foreheads (which feels weird), other cues or body language signs which allow you to interrupt each other politely are not available so once there are more than three people the solution forces you into a one-to-many broadcast (webex, periscope). Or a group conversation (hangouts) which is as functional as a dysfunctional conference call ensues. <i>My definition of a conference call is one person speaking and the other's continuing to do their emails!</i><br />
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Facebook, whatsapp, yammer, and even Slack are great for sharing but not <b>collaboration</b>, <b>co-creation</b> and <b>engaged execution</b>. And at the end of it all the information, data and ideas are smeared across multiple platforms in multiple formats often with multiple different versions of the work.<br />
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What the leaders at IBM want is to replicate the face-to-face experience.<br />
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What all of us want is to replicate the quality and effectiveness of the face-to-face experience digitally, faster, involving people globally, in less time, with less cost, and higher engagement. </h3>
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The way I see it is that the IBM leaders they want a solution which can deliver <b>Simple</b> or <b>Complex</b> messages. They want a solution which can deal with <b>Factual</b> or <b>Emotional</b> messages all seamlessly. A simple text message or tweet is great for conveying simple, factual messages. A skype chat with shared screens can help with conveying more complex, emotional messages. But messages are conveyed without direct interaction. How do I change something on your screen without asking permission – like I could if we stood shoulder to shoulder at a flip-chart or whiteboard?<br />
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They are looking for a solution which can cover all the quadrants, like face-to-face.<br />
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So we at Pentacle, created QUBE. <a href="http://qube.cc/">http://QUBE.cc</a> <br />
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QUBE is easy to use, solving simple, complex, factual and emotional needs with ease. So it is as good as being together at the office. And actually it's better.<br />
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Once upon a time we had project rooms dedicated to each project So plans could stay on the walls and the key documents on the shelf. QUBE re-introduces this extra dimension. Your work stays on the walls through time. It is persistent. So someone arriving late or missing the session because they are in a different time-zone can find out precisely what happened before they arrived!<br />
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By working on QUBE you can have a single, <i>“One-Version-Of-The-Truth”</i>. No more round-robin emails of the latest version of spreadsheet. Even the use of slide decks becomes redundant. As does a lot of email and many 'update meetings<br />
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Have you ever met someone new and discovered that they... looked a lot like your old geography teacher who you hated?</h3>
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Have you ever met someone new and discovered that they were older or younger than you had expected or perhaps looked a lot like your old geography teacher who you hated? Did it then take time and effort to build and normalise a good working relationship? The problem of bias and pre-conception is minimised on QUBE by using simple, standard avatars. Distractions of hierarchy, gender etc. are minimised and we find people build faster relationships with strangers on QUBE. <i>People also laugh more.</i><br />
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QUBE encourages parallel working and sharing. For example in a real meeting or conference call you might go round the room allowing each person to speak and contribute. Let's say that takes a couple of minutes each and there are eight of you that's a quarter of an hour. And you have to rely on everyone paying 100% attention for all the 15 minutes and not losing the thread. On QUBE with our <i>“Write-First-Talk-Second”</i> mantra – everyone would type out their ideas on stickies on a whiteboard (3 minutes) the leader would group them as they appeared and since people can read faster than they speak with a little clarification in about 5 minutes the ideas would be shared and bought into. And everyone would have paid attention throughout!. This is why productivity on QUBE can be up to five times higher than traditional ways.<br />
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IBM's leaders are not being dumb. The Pope is fine and the bears are comfortable</h3>
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<i>IBM's leaders recognise that their business is under severe threat of disruption and needs to change it's game extremely quickly. They realise they need an exemplary level of collaboration, creativity and execution.</i><br />
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Just like most leadership in these challenging digital times they just need to take a closer look at <a href="http://qube.cc/QUBE-Introduction" target="_blank">QUBE</a> because without <a href="http://qube.cc/QUBE-Introduction/" target="_blank">QUBE</a> you can never truly go digital.cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0