What this points out is …

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Session 2: LEADING STRATEGIC CHANGE Peter Browning and Continental White Cap

• How does one organize one’s strategic thoughts?

• What comprises a “strategy?”• There are multiple strategic lenses we might

use to assess a company’s strategic situation

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Session 3: Leading Personal ChangeJohn Wolford

• What percent of the people you’ve met would prefer to keep things pretty much as they are?

• Can people change?• What keeps people from changing?

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LPV 1. Do you SEE what needs to be done?(The Structure of Problems)

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2. WANTS 3. GOTS

4. CONCLUSIONSAbout PROBLEMS OR NOT

1. SOMEBODY

GAPS?

WANT/GOT GAPSThis model offers a Fast, Comprehensive

Way to Problem Identification

1. List key stakeholders on separate pages (see next slide)

2. Empathize and clarify what each WANTS3. Assess what each has GOT4. Use WANT-GOT GAP analysis to find win/win

solutions

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Stakeholder #1: e.g. “My Boss”What he WANTS What he’s GOT

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If you don’t know these, you may have to ask.

Lenses for Understanding Human Behavior

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Levels of Human ActivityLevels of Human Activity

1. Visible Behavior

2. Conscious Thought

3. VABEs (values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations)

HABITUAL?

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SEE NOT SEE

Beware your Blind Spots!

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OTHERSOTHERS

SELFSELF

PUBLICPUBLIC PRIVATE

BLINDBLINDSPOTSSPOTS

GENESADD

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The Formative Years …

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TRANSCENDER?K, L, A

Choice Theory Choice Theory (Glasser)

1. IKWRFY2. IHARTTYWRFY3. IHARTPYIYDDWRFY

Key QuestionsKey Questions

1. When I’m cold…

2. When I’m hungry…

3. When I’m wet…

4. When I’m alone and afraid…

Newborn

Two key legacies

Generation to Generation

GENEsGENEs

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The Number One Question in Life

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Will you ever become more than a vessel

transmitting the genes and memes (VABEs) of previous generations on

to the next?

When you’re no longer a defenseless child, will you become a

transcender?

VABE based BehaviorThe missing variable

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L3: VABEs EVENTS

L1: BEHAVIOR

L2: CONCLUSIONS

FEELINGS

CAREER CONCEPTS and MOTIVESDeveloped by Mike Driver and Ken Brousseau @ USC

• Concepts: what you think you should be• Motives: what you want to do and enjoy deep

down

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Steady State Experts

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Spiral

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Powerand

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Time

Transitory

+’sSail around the world

Climb MountainsKayak Rivers

Softball …

-’sAlcoholDrugs

GamblingPromiscuity …

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Some Fundamental Questions

• What is my main career concept?• Am I allowed to live this in my

organization?• Am I making career decisions to match my

personal career concept?• Am I living inside-out?

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TRANSITORY

Implications …

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Who gets to the top of most organizations?

Who designs the reward systems in those organizations?

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Some Fundamental Questions• What is my ranking of career motives?• How does this compare with my concepts?• What does the comparison say about how I

might make decisions?• What would be the impact of letting concepts

dominate motives?• How could I insure deciding in favor of my

motives?

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Balancing Your Life: Life is like a Symphony . . .

• Multiple Aspects• Multiple Rhythms• Different Movements• Experienced all at once• Can be coordinated and beautiful or

disjointed and distressing

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•Organizational

•Political

•Familial

•Social

•Marital

•Sexual

•Parental

•Physical

•Intellectual

•Spiritual

•Emotional

•Professional

•Financial

•Material

Physical Rhythm

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Fundamental Resources of Success

• Time• Talent• Energy• Agency/Choice

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Time Resource

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168 Hours a Week

Balancing Your Life

0-10 years

11-20 years

21-30 years

31-40 years

41-50 years

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PATH TO SUCCESS:

WEEKLYBALANCE

"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

- Bernard Berenson -

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Excellence is a neurotic lifestyle.

Alex Horniman

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