John Pearson in Pails in comparison published the first Mental displacement review And I just had to share it with you.
To be honest, I was nervous. Like anyone who worries about their work, he wonders how they will experience them.
Let me share the outstanding aspects with you …
I can’t praise this book enough! Because? Before organizing your next meeting of the strategic planning task group of the same/same years, inspire everyone to read this important book.
Mental displacement is almost impossible to check properly, so I’m going to the bullet 20 ideas that appeared. (I have underlined almost the whole book. Oh, Mi.) And, by the way, the design of the book, graphics and attention lists are surprising. Mental displacement is a pleasure to read.
1. Alvin Toffler: “The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and learn again.”
2. Pleasers: “The organizational psychologist Taska Eurich has studied self -awareness, and discovered that there are two types of self -awareness: internal and external.” The 2 × 2 graph on page 57 is memorable.
• Pleasers: High external awareness and low internal awareness
• Conscious: high external awareness and high internal awareness
• Finders: low external awareness and low internal awareness
• Introspectors: low external awareness and high internal awareness
3. Titanic! In 1912, Captain Edward John Smith “was captaining a new ship with a novel design. But it did not bring a new mentality to the mission. Apparently he did not open his mind to the possibility that this huge ocean eyeliner, the largest built at that time, might not maneuver as easily as it was used to. As the Treter hunter says Bock Lovett in the movie Blockbuster of James Cameron about the sinking, Smith had ’26 years of experience working against him ‘”.
4. Dispost. “When we get involved in questioning what we have learned from our experiences and questioning our beliefs, we can feel without mooring. Or we can decide to accept that discomfort and sail forward or we can remain tied to old forms and return to obsolete. ”
5. Blackberry? “Just think of all business leaders who failed to adopt change: Blackberry, Nokia, Blockbuster, toys R US, Borders, General Motors …” and more.
6. Aquino. “The Italian Christian theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas once warned:” Be careful with man with a book. “(Chapter 4,” The beginner’s mind “is essential.)
7. Errors. Stanford’s teacher, Carol Dweck, contrasts a “fixed mentality” with a “growth mentality” and includes these values for a growth mentality:
• “Errors help me learn.
• Is this my best job?
• Feedback is valuable.
• I improve with practice.
• I will not give up. “
She adds: “Why wasting time trying again and again how good you are, when you could be improving?”
8. Failure. “The legendary basketball coach John Wooden once said that no one is a failure until they begin to blame others.”
9. Be curious! See the eighth episode of the first season of Ted Lasso to learn “what Ted Lasso can teach us about curiosity.” Ted Lasso cites Walt Whitman, “Be curious, not critical.” See the three -minute clip here. (Funny!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0pzuojs-u
10. Holy Curiosity. “Einstein believed that curiosity is one of the best features of humanity.” He added: “Never lose a holy curiosity.” (There is that theme of “curiosity” again that continues to appear in my reviews of recent books).
11. Mid -point summary. Bright! In the middle of the book, Brian Solis summarizes on a page, in Big Print: “What a trip we have been. Just look at how far we have come. “On page 121, he reminds us of 10 themes that is covered, including:
• “Together … we have learned that the door is opening to a novel economy, and it is an era that needs a new leadership.”
• Together we have … “we learned that although executives might think that they do it, they don’t always have all the answers.”
12. Six stages of the change of mentality. Now the fun begins in chapters 7 to 12: “Receive, perceive, weave, conceive, believe and achieve.” Steel!
13. Mental lexicon. Five words: “The light of the trends, the light of the trends, the canvas of trends, the creep of trends and the trend park.” (I mean … how can you not read this book with your team?)
14. Reduce speed! Oh, my. How do we address those imminent trends? How do we sleep at night? Brian Solis has two words for us: “Reduce speed.” (Now he is getting entrusting! But he led me to play this song at the beginning of a meeting that I facilitated last week. You guessed it: “Slow Down”, sung by Chuck Girard).
15. Without load. “At first, since we are learning not only how to track trends but also how to identify them, letting the burden of trying to predict the future. That is not what we are trying to do here. We are exploring the trends that our ecosystem could affect. It is a process of being intelligent about the promise or potential of emerging trends. It is also spending time thinking about how these trends could develop and how those changes could be. “
16. Wonder Wall! Let’s do this! The “Wonder Wall” exercise on page 129 is worth the price of the book! Solis writes: “Create a wonderful wall active its powers of curiosity. It helps you connect the points between the future you imagine and where you are today. The process ignites its sense of child amazement and helps you consider the questions with the mind of a beginner and a positive sense of possibilities “. Includes 20 questions that you have found useful. (Guarantee: will make a” wonderful wall “in its next withdrawal of strategic planning).
Here are two questions (“Samples asking”) that came out of the page:
• “What head of WSJ or NYT would describe our ideal future state?”
• “If we do not transform now, what will our tombstone read and when?”
There are 18 more “sample” questions, tests of questions that your team could write in adhesive notes and then publish on your wall, “the visual reflection of the things that fell your curiosity and the things you cannot stop thinking, which are burning inside you.”
17. Narrative vs. NUMBERS. The author writes that the three stages of “weaving, conceiving and believing” will help “develop a story for the change that causes curiosity, conversation and collaboration, which finally leads to action.” The power of history is explored, in a very creative way in these chapters (think of the Pixar storytelling approach), but with this warning:
Solis mentions the research of Professor Scott Galloway: “The data can be more truthful, but in the battle between narrative and numbers, most of the time humanity chooses the narrative.” (However, for a slightly contrary complementary vision, but very useful, read my review on the counting of numbers, by Chip Heath and Karla Starr).
18. WIM (which means) exercise. I know you will also use this planning tool immediately. “Think about Wim’s exercise as a way to reach:
• … the fact that,
• So what,
• And now what …
of each trend. “
19. Scenario planning. The section on “a common erroneous concept on the nature of scenario planning” does not skip. (Learn about the IBM estimate in 1981 that personal computer sales would reach its maximum point in 200,000. “Unfortunately, they were a little bad.” The number was 25 million!)
20. Make your personal history. In Chapter 10, you will read about “connecting trends with the human condition making your story personal” and stories that attract our deepest emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. He will learn from “the best -known and respected script professor” as referenced in the HBR article, “the narration of stories that moves people.” (And you will want to get corn popcorn and enjoy the classic movie, Monsters, Inc.)
The author points out that “the best stories are about the human condition that we all share”, and page 195 includes a graph with 18 themes that you can take advantage of. The task: “Consider how you can tell a story about a trend in a way that shows how that trend can help your audience with these universal aspects of life.”
Reminder: I told you that this book is almost impossible to review properly. I haven’t done it yet, so read this book yourself. (I could write a second review of this book in the future, it is so good and is so important).
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