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 ...