Curiosity as a Critical 21st Century Leadership Practise
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THE CASE FOR CURIOSITY AS A LEADERSHIP PRACTISE Elaine Rumboll University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Cape Town, South Africa
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Faced with the rate of change happening faster than our ability to respond to it, Curiosity is emerging as an increasingly important leadership competency in organisations. These are the slides from an interactive and participatory workshop where delegates learnt about * Speed as an ineffective response to information overload * What is required to create a curious state * How to develop curiosity in your people * How to do an attention audit and help curiosity to thrive as a lens for attention
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THE CASE FOR CURIOSITY AS A LEADERSHIP PRACTISE
Elaine Rumboll
University of Cape Town
Graduate School of Business
Cape Town, South Africa
Common (yet ineffective tactic) to deal with information overload
Definition of curiosity and how to create a curious state
How we can apply this to our own leadershippractise
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Either:a) a list of mounting professional demands: get through email load every day; meetings with more people (due to higher demands on outsourcing and collaboration in specialist areas); manage social media profiles; reading articles daily to keep abreast with industry developments, events and innovations etc. orb) An exponential curve highlighting the increase in published informationorc) a list of new fields of study that didn't exist 10 years ago (e.g. game design, SEO, genetic engineer; Artifical intelligence roboticist etc.
The nervous system is incapable of processing more than 110 bytes of information per second
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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problem is that we can only process a finite amount of information each day.This amounts to 110 bytes per second.
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This inherent limitation on our ability to process information is the crux of what is termed "Attention Economics".The term was originally coined by Nobel Laureat polymath, Herbert Simon, who noticed the tension between the relative abundance of information and the
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So the most obvious response tends to be to go faster, and to work longer hours.Research has shown that people in urban centres are, on average, walking 10% faster than they did 10 years ago; and talking 20% faster...
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....this approach is unsustainable, given that we still need to eat, sleep and live some semblance of a balance life. Inevitably, if we take on too much work we will become exhausted and innefective.
The first thing we need for innovation is fascination with wonder, we are taught instead to decide.
Dawna Markova
ATTENTION AUDIT
CURIOSITY IS AN APPRECIATING ASSET
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What I would like to propose is that curiosity is the regenerator of Attention. It is, therefore, becoming one of the most critical states to nurture and develop in Education.
Lack of curiosity is a breeding ground for stereotyping and discrimination, inflated confidence, ignorance that can actually lead to poor decision-making, dogmatism and rigidity of thought.
Todd Kashdan (2009)
MENTAL MODEL
INCONGRUITY
REFERENT WITH MORE INFO THAN YOU POSSESS
CURIOSITY
GEORGE LOEWENSTEIN
Developmental Robotics and Artificial Curiosity – Mechanism of Condensation
Jürgen Schmidhuber
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How to create a Curious State
http://the-definition.deviantart.com/art/Eye-Story-17716419
KILL THE CRITIC IN YOUR HEAD
PEER DRAWING
Go slow to go fast
Issey Miyake “ Colour Hunting” Spring/Summer CollectionParis, 2009
Answers don’t change the world. Questions do.
