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Innovation and Learning: Understanding, Possibilities and Action.
1. What is innovation? What is learning?
2. What do you understand to be true?
3. How do you generate new ideas?
4. How do you coordinate action?
Agenda
Waving Flag
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Personal reflectionPonder your purpose in the world
Identify personal strengths and barriers to innovation and learning
Observe and note how you view the world: What you believe
Lower key barriers, build key strengths, innovate and learn!
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What is innovation? What is learning?Innovation: “Acting on ideas for a purpose”
Learning: “Observing yourself and changing”
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What do you understand to be true?How have your education, home, faith, recreation and work experiences influenced how you learn?
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What do you understand to be true?
Five Blind Men (Words follow)
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Lyrics to Five Blind Men:
(A song of a story embraced by many of the world’s faith traditions)
Walking in the woods one day with five blind men a-followingWe came upon an elephant just resting in a glade"What have we here?“ The blind men cried, for none had ever seen one"An elephant" was my reply, 'just sitting in the shade"
"An elephant" I did explain "is big and friendly, gray and slowAn elephant does not forget, and sprays things with its nose"Before I could continue on, the five blind men had found itAnd moving with their hands and ears had made their way around it
The first blind man had grabbed its leg and proudly he concluded"An elephant is like a tree, it's strong and firm and rooted"The second blind man said "Hold on, that's not what I have here"For he was feeling round the tusk and called the beast "a spear"
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Lyrics to Five Blind Men (continued):
The third blind man was in the front, clinging to a trunkly nose"It's neither spear nor tree" said he, "an elephant's a hose"Around the other way beside a giant ear, the fourth blind manStroking, found it wide and flat, and much more like a fanAnd lastly bringing up the rear, the fifth blind man did grab and gropeAnd playing with the tail declared the elephant "a rope"
Just right then our gentle friend, not used to such attentionGot up to stretch and move a bit, and turned a ways aroundBut when he sat back down again, the parts were out of orderAnd each blind man was feeling parts the other four had found
The first said, "Wait, what was a tree now feels much more like a spear"The second said, "That's what I thought, but now a hose is here"The third who thought he'd held the hose was fondling now a fanWhich, incidentally, was a rope now to the fourth blind man
Lyrics to Five Blind Men (continued):
The fifth blind man who'd held the tail was now beside a leg, you seeSo what he thought had been a rope was suddenly a treeAnd all at once the five blind men began to laugh and shoutAnd realized that each was right and joyfully stomped about
"An elephant", they sweetly sang "Is all these thingsAnd much, much more"The sum of which is greater than the parts we'd felt beforeIt just depends on where you stand" they said, and then they turnedTo thank the gentle giant for the lesson they had learned
So off we went, the five blind men and me, out in the woodBut this time I was following them, as humbly as I couldFor they had blessed me with a gift, a sparkling truth revealedWhatever you might think you seeDepends on where you stand.And how you feel.
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80437539/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo&feature=player_embedded
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What do you understand to be true?
Rules• Do not lift pen. Keep the lines straight• Keep the relative (square) orientation of the dots
Hints (for thinking in different ways)All Rounds: Observe yourself [Thinking, Feeling, Being & Believing]
1st Round: Try something
2nd Round: Think systemically [Elements interact for a purpose]
3rd Round: Borrow a brain
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Just do it!
Build on it
Build on ideas with “Yes / And”
The nine dot exercise: Purpose, task, goal is to connect the nine dots with as few straight lines as possible
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Lessons from nine dot exercise1. Ask: “What is needed and why?” “What is the purpose?”
2. Check the context, judgments and assumptions
3. Think systemically and analytically
4. Seek the next ‘right’ answer
5. Borrow a brain
6. Act
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The nine dot exercise: Purpose, task, goal is to connect the nine dots with as few straight lines as possible
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How good are you at making mistakes, laughter and embracing the possibility of being wrong?
How do you generate new ideas?
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Ignoring constraints, what might ideal look like?
If money were no object, what would you do?
How do you generate new ideas?
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Risking mistakes and accepting being wrong – A message from the southern part of heaven – A “wrongologist”
Kathryn Schulz, “Wrongologist”Michael Jordan
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Risking mistakes and accepting being wrong
Michael Jordan
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Alwaysright!
Open to being wrong
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Risking mistakes and accepting being wrong
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I err therefore
I am
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What is needed?
What is possible?
What is best?Do it!
Review it!
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How do you innovate today?What are some barriers?
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Philosophy:Do you share what you learn?Do have strong hierarchy?Do you use non-experts?Do you fail often?
“Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the lone genius”
Process:Do you embrace focused chaos?Do you suspend evaluation?Do you watch and ask?Do you have fun?
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How do professionals innovate?How might you innovate?
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IDEO’s rules for innovation– One conversation at a time– Stay focused– Encourage wild ideas– Defer judgment < penalty bell!– Build on the ideas of others
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1. Innovators have a purpose and they persevere
2. Commit to take action on your personal scorecard
Action
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People of action
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The act of forgiveness lowers blood pressure
Too young to knowwhat is impossible
Embraced oppressors
Thank GodI am …So are you
When I get older I will be stronger
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4. Your personal scorecard
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Driver:Action: Measure:
Stand:
Driver:Action: Measure: Stand:
Driver:Action: Measure: Stand: Driver:
Action: Measure:
Stand:
Purpose
Balanced Scorecard
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Driver: HealthAction: ExerciseMeasure: Sessions / weekStand: “I will exercise 3 times per week”
Driver: LearningAction: ReadingMeasure: Books / monthStand: “I will read 3 books per month”
Driver: FaithAction: PrayerMeasure: Sessions / weekStand: “I will pray 5 times per week”
Driver: WealthAction: BudgetMeasure: Review spendingStand: “I will review spending vs. budget weekly”Purpose EG:
Reduce Suffering
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