Cutting Through Complexity
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Isn’t what it used to be
Question
Is Complexity
increasing
decreasing?
going to be
Is cutting through complexity
Small hint!
Find 3 Take Aways
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Common sense
Jack Welch
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External speed of change
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Internal speed of change
What is your role?
Change Leading Client
Development
A typical Customer
They are doing this
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Direct their thinking
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Show them the
way forward
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A journey into the unknown
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Show customers
how to get there
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Show them how to
navigate uncertainties
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Avoid becoming a
victim of complexity
Success = collaborating
with everybody
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What is your real job?
You feel like this?
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Get it right
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Get it wrong
What is your real job?
What is your real job?
Attitudes A
Constraints C
Rules R
Problems P
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Eliminate constraints
to future success
Recurrent constraints
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Collective constraint-based thinking
Attitudes A
Constraints C
Rules R
Problems P
Rule-based thinking
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Guide them in their decision
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Mental barriers
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Create choices
Attitudes A
Constraints C
Rules R
Problems P
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A fresh perspective
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“I am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it.”
– Pablo Picasso
Attitudes A
Constraints C
Rules R
Problems P
Pirouette around
the problem
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How can can you cut
through
erent f
dif think
Resilient Thinking 3
Possibility Thinking 1
AND Thinking 2
Tell
Ask
Problem Solution
• Asking questions about
the problem
• Describing possible solutions
Conversational Compass
• Describing the problem
• Asking questions about
possible solutions
Resilient Thinking 3
Possibility Thinking 1
AND Thinking 2
Change your thinking
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The hard way
AND thinking
Child-like thinking
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Resilient Thinking 3
Possibility Thinking 1
AND Thinking 2
We see this
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They see this
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Cyclonic Separation
“You could regard the first 5,126 as mistakes, but failure is essential to innovation.”
How many prototypes?
SUCCESS Takes time
Failure comes early
Learning point
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Get it right
Going to do To cut through
What 3 things are you
COMPLEXITY?
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David R Ednie President & CEO
SalesChannel Europe Ph: +33 676 60 09 25 (FRA) Ph: +61 415 94 51 57 (AUS)
Email: [email protected] Website: www.saleschannel-europe.com