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Thriving in a World of Constant Fluxas entrepreneurial learners

Preparing Leaders fora world of constant change

Context setting

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We have moved froman era of equilibrium to

an era of constant dis-equilibrium.

Our ways ofleading., learning, working,

innovating & organizingmust be reframed.

A Belief

Unleashing passion and growing talent become key

20th Century Era Captured by Alfred Chandler

roads/cars/trucks/trains/ships/airplanes20th century infrastructure

Push Economy

And Scalable Efficiency becomes the goal.

• predictable• hierarchy• control• organizational routines• minimize variance

stable over decades.(Few real changes in 60 years)

S-curve

Infrastructure capabilities drive organization architecture

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21st C infrastructure: no stability in sight

S-curve

rapid set of punctuated moves

driven by continual exponentialadvances in computation

stable over decades.S-curve

20th C infrastructure50 yrs

20th Century Era Captured by Alfred Chandler

roads/cars/trucks/trains/ships/airplanes20th century infrastructure

Push Economy

And Scalable Efficiency becomes the goal.

• predictable• hierarchy• control• organizational routines• minimize variance

stable over decades.(Few real changes in 60 years)

S-curve

Infrastructure capabilities drive organization architecture

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Stocks =====> Flowsprotecting

knowledge assetsparticipating

in knowledge flows

in a world of increasingly rapid change,the half life of a given stock/skill is

constantly shrinking

& the predictability of future needs isincreasingly less certain!

creating new knowledge(strong tacit component)

needing new modes of value creationScalable learning

resourcemanagement

(ERP)

Scalable efficiency

passionate pursuit of extreme performance

questing – seeking, uncovering, probing ...

connecting – listening to others, engaging…

Mind Set of anEntrepreneurial Learner

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A fortuitous encounter thathelped shape my thinking.

Oh – an example fromyour years of running PARC?

The Grommets

A story about how fame & fortune was brought to Maui

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The first junior champion ever in Mauiand a new genre – aerial surfing.

And now ALL Five!

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How was this possible?

6 ways

A passion to achieveextreme performance and

a willingness tofail, fail, fail on the way.

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Accessing and analyzingframe by framethe videos of

the best surfers around the world.

2.

Use of video tools tocapture and analyze

each of their own improvisations.

3.

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Pulling the best ideasfrom adjacencies:

wind surfing, skate boarding,mountain biking, motor cross, …

4.

Accessing spikes of capabilitiesaround the world–

leveraging networks of practice.

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Deeplycollaborating and competing

with each other.

6.

passionate pursuit of extreme performance

questing – seeking, uncovering, probing ...

connecting – listening to others, engaging…

Dispositions of anEntrepreneurial Learner

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EnhanceSerendipity

Preparedness

ChooseSerendipity

Environments

DevelopSerendipity

Practices

Shaping SerendipityCan be more than just luck!!!

All encounters: deep listening with reciprocityTransactional --> Relational

Grinding New Lenses

What made us great in 20th Centurymight well cause our downfall

in the 21st Century –a century of constant change

Warning:unlearning is much harder than learning

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Jack Hidary

“How often do you get out of your comfort zone?”

Folks tend to isolate themselves from the flows ofnew knowledge and the people creating them.

A Big Deal

Stocks =====> Flowsprotecting

knowledge assetsparticipating

in knowledge flows

Financial leverage Capability leverage

A Mindset Change

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The Skadden Story

Learning from the Twitter/FB generation.

• code to be ‘read and tried• engagement thru useful additions and critique• social capital matters

A form of distributed situated learningcognitive ‘apprenticeship’

enculturating tonetworks of practice

Creating:

open community discussion, open buildingConversation Construction

Open Source Software Communities

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SAP wants to accelerate customer inspiredenhancements of NetWeaver

SAP Developer Network (SDN) was created as alearning platform and as an environment to fosterinteraction through forums, wikis & blogs in 2002

Growth in Members 2003-2008E

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Natural Evolvutionconnect – answer questions- build reputation –

attract others – with attracted group build new stuff

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Other participants

An Enterprise Twitter solution emerged fromthe SAP Development Network

Dick HisrichSiemens IT-NetWeaver expert

Oliver KohlMIBS GmbH-ABAP/Javadeveloper

Anne PetteroePearl Consulting-ABAP developer,Web/UI designer

Mrinal WadhwaRich Internet App.-Flex, Flash, AIR,AJAX developer

Darren Hague*Axon Solutions-Architect, Java/Scala coder

Dennis HowlettEnterpriseIrregulars-BPX expert

Enterprise Social Media Experiment (ESME) Founding Members

*Now a principal consultant for SAP

Creation Spaces quaInstitutional & technological

Platforms -

environments that effectively integrateindividuals and teams

within a broader learning ecologyto engage in challenging problems

so that performance improvement acceleratesas more participants join.

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Unleashing passion & learning.Starting to think eco-systemically,

And at the societal level.

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José Antonio Abreu wanted to break through this cycle ofpoverty, and in 1975 he established the first Venezuelanyouth orchestra in Caracas with 12 children from thebarrios. Since then he has built up a network of orchestrasand music centres through the whole country.…

…musical perfection is not the first priority;

…instead, what’s important is being able to playtogether with others with the older children passtheir knowledge down to the younger ones.

El Systema

Abreu’s intention and philosophy isa simple, elegant concept:

Ap-j/jsb: Design Unbound

“for him an orchestra is first and foremost about

togetherness, a place where children learn to listento each other and to respect one another & and thru

their individual roles each participates in an inter-

dependency of harmonies & rhythms that form apowerful collective. ..where each member is self

correcting until the collective literally resonates.”

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A sense of what is possible with small moves

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cultural transformation at three critical scales

personal– self esteem, confidence and a process ofidentity construction & leadership

family – a role model for his family that inauguratesan ascending social path of consequence.

community - the orchestras and choirs becomecreative spaces of culture and new sources ofexchange and meaning.

bootstrapping a new social life/culture

Ap-j/jsb

The Bigger Picture

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Experience curves Collaboration curves

harnessing network effects wherethe more people that participate the

greater the potential returns

KeyBreaking free of the Red Queen effect

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Individuals and Institutionsindividuals will increasingly reshape institutions

rather than vice versa

20th

century

21st

century

social media & cloud computinghelps to shift power to the edge

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The Purpose of the 21st Century Firm:to accelerate capability building

(building talent)and scalable learning/collaboration

Learning from others as they learn from you:accelerated bootstrapping thru an ecosystem

The purpose of the 20th Century firm:to minimize transaction costs &

achieve scalable efficiency

A Fundamental Transition In Values

I am what I wear,own, control

I am what I create, shareand others build on.

The beginnings of thecreative economy &the entrepreneurial learner.

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enabling new means & pathways toengage, innovate, disseminate & learn

Crisis of Imaginationhonoring the past but daring to imagine

what now could be possible.

The big shift> embracing change,

not fearing it

> being willing tochallenge ‘wisdom’

emergentfrom colle ctive action

Networks of Imagination

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Ages: 2 & 5

And to afford curiosity in aconstantly changing world.

tomorrow’s employees

A Golden Triangle for theEntrepreneurial Learning

imagination

intuition inspiration

a

sense ofAwe,

Curiosity,Humility

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Thank You

Special thanks to Susan Haviland for the sketches