The 2nd Future of Leadership Salon ...
Independence Day on 04-Jul-19 was this years date for "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade". The 2nd Future of Leadership Salon, perfectly prepared and organized by Eve Simon https://www.linkedin.com/in/eve-simon-7378b86/ and her team, and hosted by the Hafas GmbH in their cool location in Duesseldorf https://de.havas.com/havas-dusseldorf/.
See my last year summary in the 29-Jun-18 BLOG post: https://www.rethinkandfocus.com/429718297/6150900/posting/the-future-of-leadership-salon-my-highlights
We had a wide variety of impressions during the day. From Digital China, Innovation, Flow and Radical self awareness, via a tasty lunch, an african dance and a mindfulness meditation, to Nomad, Happytalism, Agileocracy and Justdiggit & Raindance. Plus many more ...
One of the guests did summarize the whole day in a freestyle rap, Daniel Jennewein in a sketch note (see my Photo Album for details). Below my key takeaways that only partially can describe the day:
After a quick coverage of the host Havas GmbH:
- "Be silly, be brave, be kind" 😎
- We are living in a crisis of trust https://www.meaningful-brands.com/en
- Philip Morris: Unsmoke the world initiative https://www.pmi.com/itstime/it's-time-to-unsmoke---why-now
- Lacoste initiative for dying species https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/44556/1/lacoste-conservation-endangered-animals-fashion-collection
Lets start with the 2019 Thought Provocateurs and some of their key statements:
- Björn Ognibeni, http://www.ognibeni.de/
- Digital China https://www.chinabriefs.io/
- The next big thing comes from China, Silicon Valley is out
- China knows better how to scale, see Alibaba 11.11
- China is focused on services, not advertisement
- Customer acquisition costs is much cheaper offline
- New retail: Coming from the new world and implement in the old world
- China is open to innovation, willing to think things new
- Chinese are looking for ways to cooperate, not to sell
- Sascha Friesike, https://www.friesike.de/
- Innovation means to make novel connections
- Use less tools, but with perfection
- You cannot under- or overestimate innovation
- Achim Nowak, http://brilliantbest.expert/about-achim-full-bio/
- Last year he did focus on LOVE this year on FLOW
- The psychology of optimal experience
- Flow happens when we work at our exceptional best
- Learn from agile, self management
- Purpose is not everything, when a workplace is driven by the wrong ideas
- Do good work and be proud of what you do
- Stephan Thieringer, https://www.theunnarcissist.com/
- Radical self awareness
- 4E = education, environment, experience, emotional state
- You always have a choice
- Add skills and culture to a discussion
- Use your three brains: Brain, heart, gut (stomach)
- Rona van der Zander, https://www.ronavdzander.com/
- We.Nomad - How to create a WE in a Nomadic world
- Future of work and education https://www.growbeyound.com/
- Self-management, find strength in yourself
- Working remotely, flexibility and trust
- Inter-generational, overcoming own bias
- How ‘Digital Nomads’ Game the System to Work in Paradise https://onezero.medium.com/how-digital-nomads-game-the-system-to-work-in-paradise-2453f59bb7c0
- Luis Gallardo, https://gallardo.world/
- You are invited for the World happiness fest 2020
- Understand the Happytalism formula
- Jasmina Nikolic, https://agilehumans.city/jasmina-nikolic/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jazilla/?originalSubdomain=rs
- Agile Humans, the Agile Manifesto for real life and business
- Can we call it Agileocracy?
Some more topics to think about or to look at:
- The 17 UN sustainability goals, can be realized in 10 years https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html
- Companies are the force for good
- Instead
of a standard introduction with name and title use the following format:
- When I look in your eyes I see ... --> to be described in three words or sentences
- You did not see/realize that I ... --> could be your answer to the statement of your counterpart
- Mindfulness: Search inside yourself, Google https://siyli.org/
- The future of leadership is human
- I, We, It - All, We, Self https://www.openimpact.io/i-we-it
- Joseph Campbell, The Heros journey https://medium.com/personal-growth/a-call-to-adventure-will-you-follow-the-heros-journey-d918e148d849
- Fishbowl discussion https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/fishbowl
- Sharing and listening from the heart, the most necessary person in a movement is the first follower, even to initiate it
- Justdiggit a Dutch NGO
- https://justdiggit.org/
- Justdiggit & Raindance https://vimeo.com/298139762
- b1g1 website, https://www.b1g1.com/businessforgood/
- If you want to see an African dance about the future leader skills with an animal analogy, see https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6552525375363133440
- You can use Play-Doh and Lego to supprt creativity and innovation processes
- At the end we promoted the idea to change Independence Day into Interconnection Day, by coincidence Seth Godin had the same idea 🤩https://seths.blog/2019/07/connection-day/
- This Steve Jobs quote closed the day https://fs.blog/2016/03/steve-jobs-crazy-ones/
My personal summary:
- The whole day program did provide enough content for the brain (left and right side), the heart and the gut
- Take a break to listen to different perspectives – go slower
- Go for x-functional with respect to culture, age, gender, skills, etc.
- Start with yourself and then take responsibility for you, family, team, environment, etc.
- An Evolutionary leader needs / has to:
- Self reflection
- Dig deeper
- Send trust into the organization
- Take pauses - don't say: "I have no time to sharpen the axe, I have too much trees to cut"
- Curious skepticism
- Combine modern and traditional methods
- Develop yourself before you can develop others
🙂😉🤪 Go slower, to be faster ... 👍
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