Success retards change

How not to let your success drive your failure

Lessons from ‘Who moved my cheese’, Dr. Spencer Johnson

Having assets makes you happy

1. There are things in life, your wealth, possessions, position, relationships, that make you happy.

2. You get so comfortable in these that the main focus becomes how to protect what you have.The more you love your assets the more you fear losing them

Love of assets retards progress

1. The more important what you currently have is to you, the more you will try to protect it.

2. Since progress means to let go what you have, in order to have a chance to get what you want, this attitude retards progressAn asset is only as good as its return

Only empty hands can hold1. The less attachment you have to your

current possessions, status, situation, the easier it will be to give it up in favor of new possibilities.

Planned redundancy1. 1983 – ISABS (1985 Professional Membership)2. 1983 – 1994 training 45 days/year (30 vacation + 15

unpaid leave)3. established in 19944. Continuous learning: Experience, documentation,

evaluation, risk, customer feedback, decision making

5. 1997 – 2000 American experienceYou can only do it if you have passion

Exercise: Identify your Assets

1. Please list those things that are important to you in order of priority

2. Now rate them in terms of how much you fear losing them

3. Then think of what you are giving up to hold on to what you have

Does risk excite you?

The Importance of Making Mistakes

How to make good mistakes and what to do when you make them

The Importance of Making Mistakes – John Cleese

“A person who does not make mistakes is

unlikely to make anything.”

What time is it now?

Give me an answer with no chance of making a mistake

Ask, “Why are we afraid?’

What is the word for a reasonable try that did

not succeed?

How to turn

failure into learning

What?

Why?

Learn

Try

Lesson1. As a result of making hundreds of mistakes,

eventually the space probe succeeds in avoiding the only mistake which would really have mattered…..

2. Missing the target

Redundancy is a law of nature

1. When boundary conditions change you need to adapt to them. Otherwise you will perish.

2. Adapting however, only guarantees survival – not growth or development

How do you know when you are reaching your redundancy

limit?1. In order to be able to anticipate impending

changes, you need to be constantly aware of your environment and the conditions that impact it.

2. This awareness should relate both to time and space - historical and geographic perspective. Who are you and how do you fit into the larger scheme of things?

Environmental Scanning1. When was the last time you scanned your

environment to assess your own market value?

2. What was the result?3. What do you intend to do to enhance your

worth?

What are you doing to keep fit?

1. Constantly challenging yourself – the dynamics of deliberate discomfort, created to combat complacency – is the key to development.

2. Constant and continuous self development and learning, challenging yourself to new heights once you have achieved your current goals.

When you move beyond your fear, you truly become free

1. Everyone starts from being afraid. Fear is a sign of intelligence, that you recognize the enormity of the goal.

2. However to get ahead it is necessary to conquer that fear and to move beyond that. To move despite it. To use it as the engine of energy to move you forward.

3. When you do that you set yourself free from fear.

Old beliefs do not lead you to new discoveries

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we

used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

1. For growth and development, you need to anticipate change and prepare for it while the need is still not clearly evident.

2. For this it is essential to conquer fear. Ask yourself, what you would do if you were not afraid.

What would I do….. 1. Ask yourself: What would I do if I wasn’t

afraid?2. Write down your thoughts………..3. Don’t allow any thought about the

practicality of your dreams to intervene.

Dreams are supposed to be impractical

Imagine what the new world will be like

1. Visualization and other such techniques help to conquer the fear and to find new direction.

2. Ask yourself, “How would it feel to have what I want? What does that mean to me? How important is that to me?”

Adapt quicklySpeed is a competitive advantage

Celebrate small achievements

1. Small changes are not only good signs of what is to come but they are also easier to adapt to and less costly to make.

2. So if you are aware of them you can significantly shorten your learning curve and reduce time-to-market for your product and make it highly responsive to customer need.

Risk enables success. Success breeds success

1. Once you start making an effort you will see signs of success. This will enhance your confidence and enable you to realize your dreams.

Summary Keys to driving change

It is safer to search for new horizons than to hide behind

fortress walls1. The safest place for a ship is the harbor.2. But ships are not made to stay in harbors

Flowing water moves mountains.

Stagnant water, stinks

The Writing on the Wall1. Change Happens

Boundary conditions change beyond your control

2. Anticipate new conditions Prepare for change before it happens

3. Adapt to Change Quickly Take decisive action fast. The longer you take

the more painful it will be to change.

The Writing on the Wall4. Consolidate the new situation

Capitalize the new assets5. Enjoy Change

Enjoy the new state of being

Be Ready to Change Quickly

and Enjoy It AgainBecause the only constant is

change

Change derailers1. False sense of urgency (negative effect of

speed)2. Need for instant gratification 3. Lack of clarity about strategy and plan4. Not noticing the small wins

Success is the inevitable result of intelligent effort

Realities 1. Success comes before work only in the

dictionary2. Fear hides behind many masks3. Priorities cost, but not prioritizing costs

more4. You have to give up something to get

somethingDo what you love and you will always love what you do