Crossing the Chasm: Entrepreneurs as Agents of Change

DRIVERS OF CHANGESustainability of People & the Planet

Anna Pollock, DestiCorpSydney, September 8th, 2011

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible Albert Einstein

The challenge of leadership today is to look at seemingly hopeless situations with new eyes, to see possibility where others see none, to bridge the chasm of impossibility. John Renesch

This decade is the first in history that offers the choice between being the last decade of a fading obsolete world or the first of a new and viable one. Ervin Laszlo

CROSSING THE CHASM Entrepreneurs as Agents of Change

CONGRATULATIONS!

THE GREAT ASSERTION!

Humanity is experiencing the biggest threat in its 2.6 Million

year history

Conscious entrepreneurs will determine whether we make it!

The future is disorder. A door like this has opened up only five or six

times since we got up on our hind legs.

It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you

thought you knew was wrong.

Valentine in Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia

“We are at that point of time when a four-hundred-year-old age is rattling in its deathbed and another is struggling to be born – with a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater and swifter than the world has ever experienced…. Dee Hock, Founder of VISA and author The Birth of a Chaordic Organization

We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history – a change in the actual belief structure of western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing their world. Willis Harman, Founder World Business Academy

CHOICE&

CHANGE

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” Gandhi

We ARE the change we are seeing in the

world!

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

What does this crossroads signify for you?What does this crossroads signify for humanity?

What does this crossroads signify for entrepreneurs?

Radical changeBusiness as Usual? ?

To evolve?To grow?

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANGE

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Change TransformationVISIBLE THRU SENSES INVISIBLE, INTERNAL

SURFACE DEEP

MORE OR LESS BETTER OR WORSE

LOCAL UNIVERAL

INCREMENTAL, GRADUAL QUANTUM

Phase, Quantum or Step Change

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Understanding “transformation”

Trends

Drivers

Paradigms

Organization,Structure

Outcomes

CultureValues

Worldview

CHANGE AS BREAKDOWN?

Climate ChangeUnpredictablityNatural Hazards

Biodiversity & Cultural Diversity

Resource depletion: Energy & Minerals

Food & Water

Financial & Institutional System

Population, Political & Social Stability

CHANGE AS BREAKTHROUGH?

Technology

Science

Educated Workforce

Global Connectivity

Rising Living standards, new markets (BRIC)

Creativity innovation

BREAKDOWN OR

BREAKTHROUGH?

Einstein figured it out

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the

same level of thinking or consciousness we used to

create them.”

In other words

Change the lens through which you view the world

What’s causing this enormous planetary shift in perspective

right now?

How do I know it’s happening – it’s not on

the 9:0pm news?

1. Connectivity

1. Connectivity led to Conversations

Companies that don’t realise their markets are now networked person-to-person, getting smarter as a result and deeply joined in conversation are missing their best opportunity. 1999!

1. Connectivity

Relationships became more

important than

transactions

1. Connectivity

Power shifted from producer to customer

2. LOSS OF TRUSTLeading to

Greater personal accountability

“intangible economy”

Intangibles – brand equity, human capital, intellectual property

now make up 60-80% of the market

capitalisation of public companies.

Source NASDAQ

3. Search for Meaning& Purpose

Source: Edelman Good Purpose Study


A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on

an historically unprecedented scale and may be the principal

cultural development of our ageGregg Easterbrook:

The Progress Paradox


In 1989 there were more people aged over 40 than under and values shift as we grow older


Twenty-somethings desire their work to be transformational, not

merely transactional.

Is this a paradox we see within our young generation? They can be self-

absorbed and are used to getting their own way, but sixty-one percent

of Generation iY say they feel personally responsible for making a

difference in the world Tim Elmore, Growing Leaders

3. Purpose Shapes expectations

3. Purpose & Behaviour

Source: Richard Barrett – The Values Centre & Cecara Consulting

4. Humanisation of Business“Well you know, I was a human being before I

became a business man”. George Soros

“The idea that business is just about numbers is preposterous. I’m not good with numbers but I’ve done a reasonable job with feelings and it’s feelings that account for the success of Virgin’s brand’ Richard Branson

4. Humanisation of Business

100% of employees are people

100% of customers are people

100% of investors are people

It’s no longer share of wallet but share of heart

Humanistic companies seek to maximize emotional value first, then experiential value, then social value knowing they lead to financial value

We Share a Common Home

5. Community

Source: Richard Barrett – The Values Centre

6. Collaboration

”In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin

Source: BBMG

5. Collaboration


Recession as Punctuation Point

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7. Conscious Consumers

The Conscious Consumer Report, 2009, BBMG

8. Conscious Capitalists•Whole Foods

•Southwest Airlines

•Zappos

•The Container Store

•Google

•Amazon

•Joie de Vivre

8. Conscious Capitalism

Source: The Conscious Capitalism Institute


Source: Firms of Endearment


Source: The Conscious Capitalism Institute

Conscious Companies Perform Better

Source: Firms of Endearment

A ROADMAP or

A KILLER APP

FOR YOU!

Show you care!

5. Community


The Heart of Business

PeopleCommunityStakeholders

PersonalityPurposeValues

Place LeadershipFocus

Passion

Be Inspired!Anna Pollockwww.desticorp.typepad.comwww.conscioustourism.wordpress.comEmail: [email protected]

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