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Cricket NSW Coaching Conference 2008

New Frontiers in CoachingPeter Spence

Lead the way…find the quantum leaps

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New Frontiers in Coaching…Session Outline

Change• Future opportunities & challenges• Leadership & Management• Timing of Change• Creativity• History of change

Intersectional Ideas – Cross-disciplinary stimulus Intersectional Breakthroughs Discussions Groups Amateurs & Pros Twenty 20 Conclusion ….The Search

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Future Opportunities

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Change

‘If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less’

Former US Military General, Eric Shinseki

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The ChallengeLeading the new order can be daunting….

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Machiavelli (1446-1507)

‘The Prince’

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Balancing Management & Leadership

Management Leadership‘Maintaining the status quo’ ‘Finding what could be’

- facilitating change

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The timing of change ...on the up!

Leaders Initiate change on the up….not on the way down

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Think Creatively…

Using no more than 4 straight lines, join all the dots, without taking your pen off the paper

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‘Outside the square’ thinking

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Further outside the square…

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Very Brief history of change:

Renaissance – (from C14th) Medici family• ideas explosion from cross disciplinary work

Scientific Revolution (from C15th)• Reason & knowledge replace religion & fear

– DIRECTIONAL IDEAS Recent resurgence of cross-disciplinary ideas

– INTERSECTIONAL IDEAS- The Medici Effect

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Intersectional Ideas

The Intersection – ideas from different disciplines, domains & cultures stream together.

Concepts clash and combine in new directions

Surprises, contradictions and paradoxes.

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Intersectional Thinking"The things that we fear most in organisations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity." Margaret Wheatley

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Think Young; Think Fresh.

“almost always the men who achieve… fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.”

Thomas Kuhn, ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’

Learning a new field, whether one is young or old, can help break down associative barriers.

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Break the Associative Barriers- Innovators have low associative barriers

Readily link diverse opportunities & ideas

Are not constrained by the accepted thinking in their areas of business.

“The more mutually remote the elements of a new combination, the more creative the process or the solution.”

‘The Medici Effect’, p.69

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Intersectional Breakthrough 1

Mike Oldfield & Richard Branson (Virgin Records)

Intersection of Rock Music and Classical Music – ‘Tubular Bells’

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Intersectional Explosion of Musical Concept Combinations

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Randolph Fields (US Lawyer) & Richard Branson – Virgin Atlantic Air

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Charles Darwin Geologist - recognised that different species

of birds evolved to meet environmental conditions - Led to the Theory of Evolution

Other experts of the day merely classified the birds in different species.

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Mick Pearce Architect with interest in Ecology

Office building in Harare. Design based on termite mounds (which maintain steady 87F in daily temp range from 100F+ to 40F-)

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Mick Pearce – Office building based on termite mounds

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Natural building designs - Melbourne

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Intersectional Breakthrough 5 Marcus Samuelsson Chef at Aquavit restaurant, NY City

From his diverse international background, eating ‘weird’ food seemed natural… thus,New range of innovative dishes

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Diverse dishes that work!

Caramelised Lobster: Seaweed Pasta, Sea Urchin Sausage & Cauliflower Sauce

Salmon Plate: Gravlax and Tandori Smoked Salmon, Espresso Mustard Sauce & Dill Foam

Marcus Samuelsson – Aquavit NY City

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More diverse dishes…

Chocolate Granache: Bell Pepper and Raspberry Sorbet and Lemon Grass Yogurt

Marcus Samuelsson – Aquavit NY City

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Santa Fe Institute Emphasizing multi-disciplinary collaboration to understand common themes arising in natural, artificial, and social systems

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Santa Fe InstituteStimulating cross-disciplinary topics: Emergence, Organisation & Dynamics of Living Systems

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Discussion Groups 1 Intersectional associations

Which areas (disciplines, domains, cultures) could you engage at the intersection with Cricket Coaching to stimulate innovative ideas?

List your 3 most bizarre intersectional associations with Cricket

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Review 1 – Intersectional ideas

“Intersectional ideas are ground breaking, then, because the concepts involved are so different and the combinations so unusual that no one would have thought them possible. Although such combinations do not always lead to anything useful, sometimes they do – and in those cases, they can work just like magic.”

‘The Medici Effect’, p.69

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Discussion Groups 2 Immediate Intersectional ideas

Which specific intersectional-style activities can you introduce into cricket coaching now, to achieve breakthroughs in terms of Style of Play and performance levels?

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Review 2 – Immediate Intersectional ideas

Cirque du Soleil, Circus Oz, Drama/acting…. improvisation training

Gymnastics, acrobatics, juggling… Dance….ABS, Gym/Ballet, Alexander’s journey Music – as a stimulus Spirit - Tiger Woods, Adam Gilchrist , Catherine

Freeman Indigenous Wisdom – The Dreamings Extreme Sports Baseball

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/world/en/au/index.asp



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Review – Immediate Intersectional ideas cont.

Conveyance sports – Sailing (Arthur Brett…Sailing backwards into the wind!)

Combative sports Psychomotor capacities, Decision-making,

Emotional Competencies Index (Dr Noel Blundell) Medicine – “New Frontiers in Medicine” Hassed Internet-based planning & communication systems 3D, Virtual Reality, Immersive Technologies Sensing capacities – Total Body-Mind integration

Amateurs & Professionals

• Amateurs work until they can get it right

• Pros work until they can’t get it wrong!

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Cirque du Soleil



Dr Lex Bertrand & Arthur Brett (Sailing)

No Limits Excellence:• Sailing backwards…• Over-speed towing

(blindfolded)• Night sailing• High speed “War Games”• “Impossible” challenges

SpiritAsked to identify just what it was that created such chasm between him and his contemporaries, Woods’ answer bordered on the spiritual.

“I told Stevie (Williams, his New Zealand caddie) walking up 18, there comes a point in time when you feel tranquil, when you feel calm; at ease with yourself,” he said. “And I felt that way this week and I felt that way in ’97 at Augusta. For some reason, things just flowed. No matter what you do, good or bad, it really doesn’t get to you… everything’s just alright.”

“Master breaks 138-year record”by Robert Lusetich (The Australian 20/6/00)

Spirit

“Maybe that’s just because when your mind is clear, natural instincts take over and you let yourself play to the best standard possible.”Adam Gilchrist(128 off 98, versus NZ)February 2000

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Twenty 20 Cricket Alan Campbell

Is Twenty 20 cricket a directional change or an intersectional change?

How can intersectional thinking be used to play this form of the game more successfully?

By following an intersectional approach, how can Twenty 20 Cricket be used to optimally benefit the performance levels in cricket?

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The search….

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The search cont….

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Intersectional InnovationThe Medici Effect method - MindMaps

http://litemind.com/medici-effect/#download-mindmaps

http://litemind.com/medici-effect/#download-mindmaps

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New Horizons….

Be open to intersectional ideas Look outside your patch Seek different areas & stimuli…Promote Sensing &

Body-Mind integration Look inside the performing arts… & all else! Create a better way…then another Remember, each individual is unique Uncover the untapped genius in each player Connect to Web 2.0, then Web 3.0 platforms Be simple, Be social, Engage them

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