How can plants and

people grow?

Question # 1

How well do you prepare the environment?

Farmers and gardeners know you cannot make a plant grow. The plant grows itself.

What you do is provide the conditions for growth. And great farmers know what the conditions are and bad ones don’t.

Sourceshttp://youtu.be/aT_121H3kLYhttp://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/06/04/you-cannot-make-a-plant-grow-you-can-provide-the-conditions-for-growth/

Sir Ken Robinson

http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/05/staking-out-innovation-success.html

The innovation plant needs good soil.

This means that the environment needs to be carefully considered.

Prepare the ground for planting.

This task includes removing obstacles that will interfere with growth, as well aenriching the fertility of the soil.

http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2010/01/post.shtml

Mitch Ditkoff

Upfront preparation gives you a chance to really figure out what you’re doing before you really start.

http://www.happenchance.net/8-lessons-in-creative-work-i-learned-from-my-garden/

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Learning-environments-2902222

Question # 2

Where do you plant?

An important feature of an ecosystem is the

interconnection and interdependency of each part in the ecosystem and the ability to add specific qualities to the whole.

http://www.cld.academy/a-garden-metaphor-for-leadership-development/

We’re all familiar with ecosystems in the natural world. The word refers to a localized community of living organisms interacting with each other and their particular environment of air, water, mineral soil, and other elements.

These organisms influence each other and their terrain. They compete and collaborate, share and create resources, and co-evolve.

http://d2mtr37y39tpbu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DUP_1048-Business-ecosystems-come-of-age_MASTER_FINAL.pdf

Maximize the potential of your organization

by planting people wisely.

http://www.theleadershipadvisor.com/2011/07/14/organizational-agriculture/

Question # 3

What technologies do you use to help plants grow?

I suggest that a company be viewed not as a

member of a single industry but as part of a business ecosystem that crosses a variety of industries.

James Moore

http://d2mtr37y39tpbu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DUP_1048-Business-ecosystems-come-of-age_MASTER_FINAL.pdf

Just as a gardener needs to put in place the canes, cloches and trellises to support the new seedlings, so you need to ensure there is sufficient technology to support emergent knowledge management activities.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/knowledge-manager-gardener-organic-metaphor-nick-milton

Further inspiration

http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/11-advantages-of-using-a-blog-for-teaching

Question # 4

How quickly do you remove weeds that block growth?

Interfere when what needs to grow is

influenced negatively by internal and/or external influencers.

http://www.theleadershipadvisor.com/2011/07/14/organizational-agriculture/

To avoid developing a culture in which

people do not help each other, remove internal competition incentives.

http://www.nickmilton.com/2010/05/pouring-weedkiller-on-km-garden.html

Complexity is like a weed in the garden that can always creep back in.

Do not let the weeds grow.

https://hbr.org/2013/05/seven-strategies-for-simplifyi.html

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farming-innovation-1711981

Question # 5

What kind of fertilizer do you use?

The job of the company leader is changing fast: You have to think of yourself not as a designer but as a gardener - seeding, nurturing, inspiring, cultivating ideas.

SourceJeff Bezos, Amazon.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/friedman-do-you-want-the-good-news-first.html

A garden needs fertilizer to grow. So do people.

http://www.happenchance.net/8-lessons-in-creative-work-i-learned-from-my-garden/

Further inspiration

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Praise-2900502

Question # 6

How often do you rotate plants?

Many farmers follow the practice of crop rotation, planting a series of dissimilar crops in sequential seasons.

This practice helps to diversify risk but has also been shown to improve crop yield.

http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/social-media-contest-how-to/

How do you avoid routine in your life?

Question # 7

How do you help plantscontinue to shine?

As the flower appears, a gardener has to take care of it - in a way that will permit it to express its nature, its best possibilities.

Alberto Alessi

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/innovation/cultivating_innovation_an_interview_with_the_ceo_of_a_leading_italian_design_firm

Some of the plants in your garden will thrive. Learn from these, find out the secrets of their success, and seek to reproduce these elsewhere.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/knowledge-manager-gardener-organic-metaphor-nick-milton

Transplant the healthiestof the thinned out plants to new, roomier locations.

http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2010/01/post.shtmlMitch Ditkoff

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