net impact june 2014: sustainable leadership through creativity and innovation

© Dr. Alexander Paufler, 2014Slide 1Do not quote or reproduce without permission

Sustainable

Leadership

through Creativity

and InnovationProf. Alexander Paufler, PhD

Net Impact Bangkok - June 19, 2014


Please

interact

with Q&A


We

• need Creativity in

today’s world of

wicked problems

and messes


Simple Problems

Problem and

solution known


Complex Problems

Problem known,

solution not


Complex Problem


Complex Problem

Fuku

shima


Wicked Problems

Problem unknown,

solution unknown


Messy Problems

Several interacting

wicked Problem


Wicked Problem


CreativityIs thinking

new things

“You need messiness and magic,

serendipity and insanity. Creativity

comes from time off and time out”

- Timothy Egan


Creativity

There is a

learnable

structure


Is doing

new things

Innovation


Search Results: January 8th 2008

Leadership through…



Life Long Developing



Listen

to the River



Listen Management by Desking



Listen Tea with Khun Alex



Listen One minute = One hour

=



The Innovator’s DNA



Questioning

Break out of status

quo for new things



Observing

“It is in the little things”


Observation

Innovation by no problem


Observation

Gag Innovation



Experimenting

The 4 Ts



Networking

Diverse backgrounds

for new perspectives



Networking“You become whom you

spend time with”

- Tom Peters



Associating

Creativity is

connecting

the dots



Understand your

Brain


‘Feed’ your brain to focus

Neurons enter ‘files’ and connect

Innovators destroy ‘perceptions’

Trigger Ideas


100 billion

neurons =

100.000.000.000


Each connected with

10.000 others


Fire up

and feed your

brain to create

many ideas



Anything goes

Problems, stories, words,

numbers, articles, people,

concepts, pictures,

analogies,

business cards


Analogy


The brain is

our tool kit


Brain Tactics



Stress Management

Stress Relax

low

low10%

40%

50%



The Mix Fit

Stress Relax

low

low



Ideation & Stress

Stress Relax Stress Relax

Questioning Observing Experimenting Associating

Networking Networking Networking Networking



Expose Yourself

Examples

- Break out of the routine

- Experience new things

- Travel, read, communicate


Note

Note

Note


Scratch deep for Ideas

• Newspapers, books, ads, films,…

• own what you read

• read archaeologically

• read fat (OED)

Collect Ideas




Flexibility

Think detour - Do the opposite


Straight View


Different View


Crisis


Crisis Containers



The 4 Ts

Toss, tinker, twist, tweak


4 Ts


smart “unlimited” edition 2004

4 Ts


Equally popular with

hospital CEOs as with

secretaries.

Not seen as cheap car.

smart



Connect the Dots

Integrate Contradictions



Categorize in 1,2,3

Stress

10

‘Cloud – Category’

first vague idea,

first vague vision



Category #2

Search

for



Category #3

- Old files, notes

- Old concepts

- Old graphs

- Old clippings

- Old articles, films

- Old anything

- Old can be 1 min

Revisit:


Here’s how: Book

2004

2013

2014


John Lennon ‘Nowhere Man’

“After working five hours trying to craft a

song, he had nothing to show for it. ‘Then’,

Nowhere Man came, words and music, the

whole damn thing as I lay down”

Here’s how: Song


Steve JobsStarted the ‘typeface Renaissance’

After visiting a class in calligraphy he found it

“beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way

that science can’t capture”.

Here’s how: Type


Oscar Wilde

“A writer is someone who has

taught his mind to misbehave”

Here’s how: Write


SWOT

Marketing Mix

Dynamic Capabilities

Brain Tactics

Porter 5

Analytical models or

goals serve as think

targets for our brain


Thank You

I Questions

net impact june 2014: sustainable leadership through creativity and innovation

Education

new things innovation

solution unknown

new perspectives

little things

mix fit stress

innovators dna

perceptions trigger

alexander paufler