CREATE

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CREATE!

• Initiating Change
• and
• Inventing the Future

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Change is Inevitable

• Life will change.
• The only question is . . .
• will it get better
• or will it get worse?

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Change is Constant

• The need to change never ends.
• Once you change,
• it is time to change again.

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General MotorsWilliam Durant

• From horse-drawn carts,
• to engine-powered cars.
• The time to change is before you have to,
• while youre still successful.
• Dont just adapt to events.
• Create the future.

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Change Cycle

• Innovators
• Early adopters
• Early majority
• Late majority
• Laggards

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Change

• Change isnt good or bad.
• It all depends on how you respond to it.

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Four Responses

• Ignorance
• Resistance
• Anticipation
• Creation

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Response 1Ignorance

• Unaware of changes.
• Unconcerned about potential changes.

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Response 2Resistance

• Once we finally discover changes,
• we often resist them.

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Response 2Resistance

• Change always involves loss.
• Even staying the same doesnt
• protect us from loss.

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Potential Losses

• Power
• Relationships
• Competence
• Identity
• Security
• Certainty

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Types of Resistance

• Deny We dont need to change
• Attack We can stop the change
• Negotiate We can change the change
• Withdraw We wont participate

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Proactive vs. Reactive

• Ignorance and Resistance are reactive.
• This is how most people respond to change.
• Anticipation and Creation are proactive.
• This is how effective people respond to change.

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Response 3Anticipation

• Predict be a meteorologist
• Find patterns
• Explore
• Prepare
• Adapt
• Evolve

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Poor Predictions

• I think there is a world market for five
  computers.
• - Thomas Watson, IBM

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Poor Predictions

• I dont see why anyone would need a computer in
  their home.
• - Ken Olsen, DEC

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Poor Predictions

• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• - Bill Gates, Microsoft

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Response 4Creation

• Innovate
• Initiate
• Propose
• Develop

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Response 4Creation

• Its actually harder to keep things the same,
• than it is to allow them to change.

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Response 4Creation

• Be the change you want to see in the world.
• - Mahatma Gandhi

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Response 4Creation

• If I had only changed myself first, then
• by example I would have changed my family.
• From their inspiration and encouragement,
• I would then have been able to better
• my country, and, who knows, I may have
• even changed the world.
• - from the tomb of an Anglican Bishop

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Response 4Creation

• Effective and successful people
• change the world
• by changing themselves.

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