Business Strategy A Post Modern Approach

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Business Strategy - A Post Modern Approach

• Business Leadership Challenges
• for the new Millennium

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PASTforwardS T R E T C H I N G _at_ the Speed
of Life

• Mental Filters, Complexity and Paradox
• The Electronic Herd
• Globalisation
• Learning and un-learning
• De-stabilising the Present
• Understanding the PAST
• Creating the Future

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Threatened Species must learn to Think and to
MateContinuous change is a sign of life

• Getting a (global) perspective - The playing
  field.
• Considering turbulence, chaos and paradox - Hype
  or reality?
• A sense of time and space - Seeing the whole
  picture, in motion.
• Vision Leadership - Motherhood statement or
  hard core substance?
• Sense and being - What part can and should I
  play?
• Re-writing the Rules - In which game are you
  playing?

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Persuasive LeadershipVision and Leadership
characterised by Whole-Sight and In-Sight

• Vision, guidance and simple economic models
• Personal integrity, humour humility
• Wasting time in a messy reality is more
  important than ever!
• EQ - The fluff stuff is the right stuff
• Discover both sides of the brain
• Be Fair Tough! Be Decisive Honest!
• soft is not weak, just as hard is not strong!

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Content - the Currency of the FutureKnowledge-w
ith-short-shelf-life is your greatest Asset

• What is worth knowing?
• What is it to be Bread or the bakery
• Content an international currency greater than
  the EURO, US or YEN and universally accepted.
• From implicit to explicit knowledge
• Learning rather than teaching
• Nano-life and experience

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business-wisdom_at_workValue-based, Human-Dignity
Management and Balance

• Zero-Sum and Non-Zero-Sum
• Organisational health and wellness
• Money? Money. MONEY! - Meaning!
• Pushing the envelope. Together!
• Walking pieces of Art.
• Walking a tight rope. Keeping balance.

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ideas_at_workPromoting Innovation creativity

• Gender, age, background, experience
• Whos the competition?
• Wheres the competition?
• The significance of waterline management.
• C.R.E.A.T.E. Mind-Maps. Clusters.
• Creating and sustaining Buzz
• Spreading viral infections

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Get some Jurassic Spark!Personal Development _at_
the Speed of Life

• Five very personal steps on reaching your
  potential
• Data. Info. Knowledge. Insight. Wisdom.
• Skills. Competencies. Talents.
• Digital and analogue thinking
• Memory, learning and creativity.
• Finding your SweetSpot!