tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86794835120382438792024-03-16T11:02:13.286-07:00N E W .W O R L D. T I M E SNews from Pentacle The Virtual Business SchoolcyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-92125953993442051812017-04-26T07:49:00.002-07:002017-04-26T07:50:27.243-07:00Springtime for Hitler or Choices for Change?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So it's spring and I've been doing some cleaning.</div>
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I've just thrown out a skip-load of news papers. Since the financial crash of 2006 I have been collecting copies of the Financial Times. My plan was to use them as the basis of my research for my next book an updated version of <a href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1900961156.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">New Rules for the New World</a> but instead of using fictional characters, to use real people and stories to illustrate how breaking the rules of our <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">World After Midnight</a> leads to surprising grief. And most important of all, how to avoid it in the future. That project is now cancelled, abandoned. You might ask why. Well the answer is very simple. For me Brexit was my "<a href="http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/september-26-1986-bobby-ewing-returns-from-the-dead-in-dallas-11364007130635" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Bobby Ewins in the shower" moment. </a>If you don't know what than means I've provided a link. In my youth I had dedicated countless hours to following the exciting twists and turns of the Ewing family in the soap opera <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_(1978_TV_series)" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dallas</a>. In the same way, for most of my adult life I have paid attention to the news, current affairs and done my bit as a citizen to remember things so we can hold the powerful to account and not have them fool us.</div>
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Then one day on Dallas, Bobby, who had long since been written out of the story line, re-appeared in a shower which he had been taking many many episodes before! In a flash several years of story-line were snipped out. As if time had been bent by gravity and snipped off a loop. For me Brexit has simply snipped of every single plan and goal and achievement and challenge of the past forty or so years. All norms are gone, assumptions evaporated and capabilities undermined. All of it is now completely irrelevant!</div>
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I understand why many people voted Leave. Each had their own reasons. Many valid some less so. I also understand <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/nigel-oakes-cambridge-analytica-what-role-brexit-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">the role of Big Data analysis</a> in helping the Leave campaign target and campaign so effectively. I also have studied the <a href="http://www.mattwingett.com/power-to-persuade-the-techniques-used-by-paul-mckenna-for-brexit/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">persuasion techniques</a> used which I must admit were first class! Perhaps even better than the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b00f626a-735e-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">persuasion techniques used in the US elections</a>. But without an understanding of the downside you know it is impossible to do a business case. The downsides were far too complex and unknowable to make headway without really deep study. They were unknowable because of the large number of self-interested parties involved. Plus the fact as time passed in the divorce, as it does in any divorce, the balance of power would likely shift. And without an understanding of both benefits and downsides, a business case, any choice or any vote, however good the rhetoric, is simply a random act of faith.</div>
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And there are many things I don't understand. I would never have believed that such learned people would treat an irreversible choice so lightly but somehow ALL MPs and ALL the Lords voted exactly the same way. I have never seen that in my life except at times of war. Why did they all roll on their backs allowing their tummies to be tickled? Was it fear of the three-line whip? Was it a fear of being pilloried by the media? I can't believe that with all that wisdom, our high quality politicians would have thrown in the towel so easily. And yet they have but have given us no clear idea of the future, benefits, and the downsides which we now seem to keep tripping over and discovering one after another. Customs union, Gibraltar, two major EU Agencies, Banking & Medicine to leave London taking thousands of jobs and so on. Totally baffling to me. How it is we have swapped to a regime made up of people who no more than nine months ago we referred to as "swivel-eyed loons"?</div>
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So I have completely stopped following UK current affairs. I see no point. It's obviously far too complex and for a simple man like me to make any sense of.</div>
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My choices are to get behind the new regime; I have a wealth of knowledge of three things the new regime needs - I know how to get success in projects and change really, really, really well. I can accelerate innovation in any organisation by an order of magnitude and I have a deep, deep understanding of the World After Midnight, that is how to use all the levers, digital, human etc., etc., to create the outcomes you want rather than the surprises described in the FT articles I have just chucked out.</div>
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But should I? I don't want to be Hugo Boss, the talented designer of SS stylish uniforms. He encouraged people to join one of the vilest and most criminal regimes ever seen. And if the UK does fail it could easily become the new North Korea. A nuclear-armed, belligerent neighbour with bad relations propped up by the USA. Sounds far fetched? So was Brexit and I didn't see that coming. I don't want to be the person who helped it innovate in order to make the world a terrible place. </div>
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I intend to be a 'citizen of the world instead focusing my efforts on people and organisations who wish to <a href="http://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">collaborate </a>and work together on our small blue planet. I also want to put my effort into the non-human parts of the world. I'm certain that if we took <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/whale-found-dying-coast-norway-30-plastic-bags-stomach/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">whales dying of hunger because their stomachs were full of plastic </a>and other real phenomena as seriously as we take what is really simple to achieve, economic growth, we would have better lives and more for those intent on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">power </a>to be able to bask in it all.</div>
cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-29761492917759144662017-04-10T08:31:00.000-07:002017-04-10T08:31:34.950-07:00Social Media has it's own 'Artificial Intelligence'<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 3.2rem; margin-top: 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The last ten years of your life have been spent on social media. And since we are alike, I guess most of your time has been spent typing text and attaching videos and pictures. It's a bit like having your own mini BBC. You broadcast a little thing and then someone broadcasts back at you. You smile, feel satisfaction but not completely because you <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">never really interact as real emotional people</em>. If you want to understand this more deeply, read my previous blog that proclaimed loudly, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/i-dont-want-interact-data-people-eddie-obeng" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">“I don’t want to interact with data, I want to interact with people! </a> </div>
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I said Social Media 2.0 needed to be interactive. I compared it how I and my clients live and work on <a href="http://qube.cc/video-day-in-the-life-jde/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">QUBE</a> and pleaded for change. Then along came <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat_(app)">Meerkat</a> with it's live streaming app. Hooray! Even though it only streamed one to many. Every budding Hollywood star was up on Meerkat broadcasting like crazy. But all that attention brought predators to the poor critter. In no time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(app)">Periscope </a>had pounced on the Meerkat - even though it was stood up tall on it's hind legs <span style="font-family: "source serif pro" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">to look as scary as possible</span>. And then it was finally killed and stuffed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Live">Facebook's Live</a>. It seems social media is learning. but perhaps it's learning the wrong things. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/05/facebook-live-social-media-live-streaming?CMP=share_btn_tw" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> I read recently that the bulk of views on live happen <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20.475px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">after </strong></em>the event</a> and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20.475px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not </strong></em>live. And to some extent it is evolving into an instant front-end for a YouTube like service. </div>
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I guess it means we're back to the old clichés from Henry Ford and Akio Morita of SONY about breakthroughs. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People wanting faster horses </em>or insisting that, "<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No one would want to listen to music whilst on the move." </em>The breakthrough in social media is going to need vision and leadership, not just jumping on the fastest moving horse or Meerkat.</div>
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It's as if Social Media has it's own version of machine learning and is evolving just the way it damn well pleases. Even if that doesn't enrich your life.</div>
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Apparently, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the world has now entered the ‘post-truth’ era. From how it’s described it would appear to be a significant change. If you, like me, have been involved in change or projects you probably just smiled wryly at the discovery the world has only recently made but which you have known about for ages. Consider the projects whose RAG (Red-Amber-Green) reports are full-on-green right up to the point where the project crashes and burns in flames over-budget, late and without deliverables. Or the wonderful way a phase can suddenly become a month late, overnight. Or how sponsors can confidently announce delivery dates without understanding the complexities. Or how organisations new to Agile can have scrum after scrum and yet produce an un-testable final product which can’t go to the full market. Many of these come from “invisible” type projects. Change where progress is not obvious or easily measurable. Projects in this category include software coding, culture change, innovation, marketing and artistic. In these projects, asking the team, “How is it going?” elicits a one word answer, “Fine.” They may not intend to speak ‘post truths’. It’s more likely that because of the invisible nature of the project, they themselves don’t know they are off-track.</div>
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As the world moved away from being about purely local transactions and people began to rely on ‘strangers’ to provide their food and medicine, it became a matter of life or death to know the truth behind what you were consuming and buying. As a result, branding was born and thrived. First with bits of hot metal on cattle and then in labels on bottles of medicine so you wouldn’t get taken in by fake ‘snake oil’ sales men but could be sure that you had the genuine article.</div>
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Brands have now taken on a life and value of their own. We automatically associate a range of very specific qualities with each brand which reassures us. In a complex situation, where you have little time to decide and you are unsure of the outcome, the brand works as a short-cut proxy for the truth. In fact the more uncertain and ambiguous the situation, the more likely people are to reach for brands they recognise or understand. For many enterprises the importance of their brand is significant enough for it to be reported in their financial results. Brands are also really significant for individuals. Just mentioning their names conjures up a distinctive list of adjectives which you can be certain they will embody. Think Branson, think Trump or think Madonna. You know exactly what to expect.</div>
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Apparently, according to the <a href="http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/01/9-years-of-the-global-risks-report-what-have-we-got-right/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">World Economic Forum</a> the types of risk affecting the world are more diverse and ever more interconnected. In such a world, who would you look to, to guide you through? What is the list of qualities or adjectives which immediately spring to mind? Does that list match you?</div>
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COLLABORATION - Working Out Loud - Making the most of digital opportunities to collaborate and engage.</div>
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So I'm a teenager singing my heart out loudly to the latest, coolest, pop song when my mother joins in. The shock of it. How could she possibly know the words and the tune? She can see the bafflement in my face so explains, "This tune was very popular when I was at college," she says. I'm still baffled. I'm too young to realise the industry uses remakes and cover versions to extend and maximise the returns from IP so I can't believe it. I look at her as if she must be making it up. Now she looks confused, and perhaps slightly hurt, that I don't believe her. But she was right and it was true. It's just that like most humans we assume what is <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">new to us </em>is <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">new to the world. </em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "georgia" , "source serif pro" , serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">F</span>ew of us have the scientific instinct to do a reference search to verify the source and avoid 'Chinese whispers'. The song was what I now refer to as a "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fake New".</span></div>
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How do you explain that you had been there, done it and got the t-shirt, without sounding like an arrogant, but very fake, schmuck?</h3>
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I'd been telling my story about the hunter gathers surprised by the sabre-toothed tiger suffering from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._LeDoux" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Joseph Le Doux/B F Skinner's research on 'Amygdala hijack' </a>and using it as a way to explain how crucial it was to engage and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not </em>surprise stakeholders. The session was almost verbatim from my book <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Change-Project-Handbook-Financial/dp/0273622218" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-size: 20.475px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">All Change!</a> </em>a Financial Times best selling book when it was published a while ago. One of the participants approached me and said, "Do you have any other books you'd recommend? You're obviously telling us stuff from Kahneman's <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thinking Fast and Slow</em>." I knew instantly how my mother must have felt all those years ago. There is no easy way to refute such confidence. So I smiled, mentioned that I had shared a couple of stages with Kahneman (code for, "I am not pilfering <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">his </em>stuff. I am invited for <u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">my </em></u>stuff") and said, "Do you mean any of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">my </em>other books." Now it was her chance to look confused. But I think I felt worse. How do you explain that you had been there done it and got the t-shirt without sounding like an arrogant, but very fake, schmuck?</div>
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How do you point out the "Fake New" of a bad cover version to the author agent and publisher without seeming petty and perhaps ending up having to sue them? </h3>
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The second event was even more galling but harder to handle. What do you do when a Pulitzer prize winning writer purloins your stuff then misrepresents it and gets the content and concept ridiculed? That's how it happened to me when a text from one of my colleagues sent me to <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/gSb6J2Sr4Xg/i-swear-to-god-this-is-a-real-graph-from-thomas-friedma-1789428361" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">this link.</a> If you know anything about me and my work over the past three decades you'll recognise the curves. They are what I was asked to do a TED Global talk about. if you read the article or book you'll also realise the concept and solutions are completely misrepresented. But how do you point out the 'Fake New' of a bad cover version to the author agent and publisher without seeming petty and perhaps ending up having to sue them? </div>
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Surviving in a world of data overload where everyone want's to make a difference, be noticed and be famous regardless is not for the lazy or faint hearted. </h3>
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Don't fall for cover versions - find the original. Remember the 'Fake New' often misinterprets or leaves out vital elements of what you are reading about. Consider how <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Digitalisation </em>slipped into <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Digitisation</em>. And transformation slipped into change. Ask yourself, "How likely is it that this person has a deep understanding of the issues, deep enough to really be a thought leader?" Search a bit around the concept. One "Fake New" I tripped over was a company who, having been advised by an 'Agile' Consultant, were making people sit at a different desk each day and stand up for meetings in the board room all squashed up in the corner because the board table and chairs were still present! Somewhere the principles of Agile projects got misinterpreted.</div>
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* See, you almost fell for it. It's a great quote but it's not mine. It's from the visionary and author<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Richard Bach</span></div>
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UNCERTAINTY - The leadership and strategic mind-set and toolkit to help you navigate the current global uncertainty.</div>
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NEURO-COLLABORATION - Making the most of digital opportunities to allow human minds to collaborate and engage.</div>
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METAMORPHOSIS - Transforming your incumbent/legacy organisation to outperform digital disruptors.</div>
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PERSUASION - Innovative Leadership in Complex Times - A master class in how to get just about anyone to follow you doing something new.</div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-561638114500027372017-04-03T03:52:00.000-07:002017-04-03T04:37:40.315-07:00I must do something. But what?<div style="border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "source serif pro", serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 3.2rem; margin-top: 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Are you with me? Have you learnt the secret which few people know? <em style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have you learnt that two parallel worlds exist?</em> There is one which most people believe in. In that world, polls work, economic activity can be forecasted, prices go down in a recession, world events are not so interconnected that emergent surprises like millions of refugees suddenly arriving on your shores without warning occur. In that world investment leads to business growth and business valuation is linked to performance. Young people look for long term careers in big corporates. And the boss's KPIs make sense because they can set meaningful one year budgets and know how the market place behaves. Most people understand and recognise the rituals and tools of this world and have accumulated the requisite 10,000 hours in it to make them expert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then there is a second parallel world. The </strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">real </strong></em><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">world. The one which came into being at </strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">midnight </strong></a><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">whilst everyone was asleep and so no one noticed it starting.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're not sure which world you think is in operation you can test yourself by <a href="http://pentacle.co.uk/Downloads/WhyIhaveTooMuchWork.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">tracing the numbers from 1 to 22 in the BubbleDiagram which explains, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Why you have too much work!"</strong></em></a> (If you did your homework from my <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/how-many-times-did-you-have-catch-your-parents-putting-eddie-obeng" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">previous blog</a> this will be extra fun)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problem is you are probably in denial, or your logical brain has been turned off by all the surprises and at worst you are making up fake justifications and accepting as fact things which are not true just to support your world view and cognitive dissonance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't worry, I can help you accelerate how to thrive in this 'World of Apparent Chaos'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To make this stick in your brain, I'm going to make you put some effort in to doing something. Print out double sided the file here - Why print? Because I want you to have a physical copy. Now I need you to decide on your 'trigger' so perhaps put it on your screen so every-time you turn to your screen, there it is, or put it in the pocket or wallet where you keep your money so every-time you pay for something, there it is, or attach it with an elastic band to the back of your iPad... Get the idea?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">UNCERTAINTY - The leadership and strategic mind-set and toolkit to help you navigate the current global uncertainty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">COLLABORATION - Working Out Loud - Making the most of digital opportunities to collaborate and engage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">METAMORPHOSIS - Transforming your incumbent/legacy organisation to outperform digital disruptors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">AGILITY - Successful and fast delivery of 'foggy' change in a turbulent business environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PERSUASION - Innovative Leadership in Complex Times - A master class in how to get just about anyone to follow you doing something new.</span><br />
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-70040463016167806532017-03-28T08:29:00.000-07:002017-03-28T08:29:59.551-07:00If I could only see the future...<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 48px; margin: 3.2rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.701961); font-family: "source serif pro" , serif; font-size: 21px;">The foreign exchange market is huge. It trades more in a day than the entire stock market trades in a year. There is money to be made in foreign exchange trading and so it attracts lots of smart people and has plenty of resources. Smart people and resources means that they should have a better shot at knowing where the world is going and not being surprised by stuff. Were you as amazed as I was last week when the dollar crashed and then rose like a phoenix to be higher than it had been before the US elections?</span></div>
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It seems that even smart people with resources can't see the future.</div>
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Being human means suffering from, 'The Shock of the Unexpected'*. Have you ever been surprised by events, to the point where you can feel that your brain has shut down and your emotions are raging? What happens is that a bit of your old 'crocodile brain' towards the base of your neck turns off the modern frontal bits. Have you heard the gibberish you speak when you are in that state?** (Just think of some of the things you have said in response to the surprise POTUS event I'll bet you are fully convinced even if there is no evidence). Of course it's gibberish, your logical brain is turned off! </div>
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I don't have resources, and I know about the danger of the shock of the unexpected and I do know how it can devastate your performance and get you making dumb decisions. So I created two Performance Enhancement Tools (PETs) to solve this for me. I know that once you have imagined an event, however unlikely, when it happens your brain doesn't get hijacked. in fact you will feel a bit smug and happy that what you predicted has come true! I know that today is the most probable day to precede tomorrow. And that means tomorrow will be the most likely day to follow today. So in idle moments I FutureDream and FutureMap. Dreaming solves the emotional shock. Mapping gives me an idea of what might happen next.</div>
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Today I would like you to spend half your commuting time or coffee time FutureDreamingTM. Choose something important for you, say a meeting with your favourite client. Now imagine surprise events which could affect it. Start with the good ones, such as your client has been promoted, move to negative ones which could knock you off course, then move to slightly crazy ones and then back to positive ones at each stage note your feeling about the event. </div>
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Tomorrow I would like you to create a FutureMapTM following the QwikGuide instructions <a href="http://pentacle.co.uk/PETs/FutureMapping.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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* the scientific description is Amygdala hijack</div>
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** psychologists call this cognitive dissonance<br />
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UNCERTAINTY - The leadership and strategic mind-set and toolkit to help you navigate the current global uncertainty.</div>
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NEURO-COLLABORATION - Making the most of digital opportunities to allow human minds to collaborate and engage.</div>
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METAMORPHOSIS - Transforming your incumbent/legacy organisation to outperform digital disruptors.</div>
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AGILITY - Successful and fast delivery of 'foggy' change in a turbulent business environment.</div>
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PERSUASION - Innovative Leadership in Complex Times - A master class in how to get just about anyone to follow you doing something new.<br />
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It's the millennium. A typical group of typical senior managers are agreeing on who to promote. The choice is between a manager who presents clear plans, good business cases and can demonstrate that they have experience and another who doesn't' do any of those things. Who would they promote? But, remember even then, offshoring and outsourcing, of the more easily specified parts of the organisation, meant remaining internal roles had more complexity and change to deal with.</div>
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I wrote a book which became an FT best seller, about the best ways to deal with <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, "source serif pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20.475px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Change! </b></i>It's here in <a href="http://www.pentacle.co.uk/downloads/All_Change_Eddie%20Obeng.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">.pdf format</a> so you can read it but not too easily ( :-) that way you'll probably end up buying a copy)</div>
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Today I would like you to try to classify what type of change your biggest change challenges are. Plot them on a map of change types. You will find an explanation <a href="http://pentacle.co.uk/PETS/TypesOfChange.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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You must get on <a href="http://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">QUBE</a> because you become more certain in your uncertainty</h3>
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UNCERTAINTY - The leadership and strategic mind-set and toolkit to help you navigate the current global uncertainty.</div>
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NEURO-COLLABORATION - Making the most of digital opportunities to allow human minds to collaborate and engage.</div>
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METAMORPHOSIS - Transforming your incumbent/legacy organisation to outperform digital disruptors.</div>
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AGILITY - Successful and fast delivery of 'foggy' change in a turbulent business environment.</div>
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PERSUASION - Innovative Leadership in Complex Times - A master class in how to get just about anyone to follow you doing something new.<br />
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">HUMAN-MACHINE - Visions and strategies for the future of work in a world where machines are stronger and smarter than us.</span></div>
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In most instances it is simply adding cost complexity and confusion to our already complex lives. Here's an example. This is a message I received.</div>
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It's obviously supposed to improve my customer experience and has been generated automatically probably via some sort of 'Internet Of Things' capability, where my parcel has informed the system of where it is! </div>
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Imagine phoning a friend to say, "Hello. You may have won the lottery today." and then hanging up! That would be pretty pointless. So, one word in the message, "attempt." The word also tells me that their system is not joined-up or predictable and repeatable. </div>
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Secondly, the message is sent from a 'no reply account' which means I can't tell them that I will not be in or suggest a better time for me. They will therefore waste time and money trying to deliver the parcel anyway, even though I could have saved them the expense of a wasted journey. I therefore know that the person who wrote the message, the one who signed it off and the one who set it up in a jumble of multiple fonts have not shifted their mindsets to our World After Midnight customer-centricity and interdependence. I also know that they have not altered their behaviour in any way, probably just doing digitally what they may once have done with a card through the door or phone call.</div>
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Unpublished studies show that many companies have seen a 8-10% increase in the costs of information and communications technology (ICT) and a significant increase in complexity, but without any positive impact on productivity. Published work by Forrester Research indicates that on average less than ~6% of organisations are gaining differentiation from their attempts at digital transformation.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm getting a bit fed up with urban-myths sold as fact. "<i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remote working is impossible</i>." "<i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People travel to offices because digital technologies can't replace face-to-face</i>." "<i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can't work virtually until you've met face-to-face." </i><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span>he list goes on and on in ignorance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recently had a conversation where I was told in no uncertain terms that, 'You can't work virtually unless you had met face to face!' I asked the speaker politely if he had ever tried working digitally or virtually first, or at all to which the reply came back, gruffly, "No! Because it wouldn't work!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently a <a href="https://hbr.org/2016/04/if-work-is-digital-why-do-we-still-go-to-the-office" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Harvard Business review article</a> by Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel caught my eye. In it, they comment, <i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“What early digital commentators missed is that even if we can work from anywhere, that does not mean we want to.”</i> This is an incorrect observation. The truth is that most of us can’t WORK from anywhere. Work is often about human to human interactions, emotions, creativity and trust building or other relationships. Stop and think about it. I write a comment to this post. You read my comment and respond. Someone else responds to your comment and I read that… We NEVER interact as humans. You and I NEVER interact as human beings as we would in a real-life space. The bulk of the market for digital communication is not about human to human interaction. The digital communications which the authors go on to describe are about human beings interacting with data! <a href="http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/i-dont-want-to-interact-with-data-i.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Here's a blog which expands and explains more.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My focus for the last decade has been on Enhanced Reality (ER)...ER is digital technologies put into action to re-create the human interactions with all the attendant emotions and physical spatial memories. ER then seeks to layer, on top of the human experience, features only digital technologies can enable such as: persistence, single points of view amongst several people search at a click, etc. To my surprise we have created what I describe (and I am biased) as a world beater...<a href="http://qube.cc/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">QUBE</a>. We are working towards making <i style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">QUBE the world's most sought and bought productivity and education methods and behaviours.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my <a href="https://www.zeitgeistminds.com/talk/4743004/generation-tomorrow-eddie-obeng/speaker/3905005/eddie-obeng" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google Zeitgiest talk</a> I explain how the daily commute has turned us into time travellers. (<a href="https://www.zeitgeistminds.com/talk/4743004/generation-tomorrow-eddie-obeng/speaker/3905005/eddie-obeng" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">12 minutes if you have the time</a>.) The authors are correct in their conclusions but for the wrong reasons. Over the past four years I have transitioned my organisation from offices to working globally via ER. Relationships are better, office politics has declined and most importantly productivity has risen by about a factor of five. I believe that we will continue to travel to offices until we transition from devices and digital applications which separate us from each other by making us interact with data to routinely making the technology serve us and enhance our human to human interactions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And that's why slogans, for that is all it is like, "The world is going mobile." are so misleading. Mobile means doing what we did in the 20th century and adding on digital opportunities simply as accessories!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So if you've never experienced the 'Heavier than air flying machines of the digital communication world' - Enhanced reality (ER), I'd like to invite you to visit and explore my organisation which collaborates incredibly effectively, although we are permanently geographically dispersed. My stipulation is that you write up what you discover honestly and post them to this conversation.</span></div>
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UNCERTAINTY - The leadership and strategic mind-set and toolkit to help you navigate the current global uncertainty.</div>
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NEURO-COLLABORATION - Making the most of digital opportunities to allow human minds to collaborate and engage.</div>
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METAMORPHOSIS - Transforming your incumbent/legacy organisation to outperform digital disruptors.</div>
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AGILITY - Successful and fast delivery of 'foggy' change in a turbulent business environment.</div>
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PERSUASION - Innovative Leadership in Complex Times - A master class in how to get just about anyone to follow you doing something new.<br />
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-76173012709125362952017-03-27T06:46:00.000-07:002017-03-27T06:46:17.428-07:00Violence or Enlightenment? How will you harness technology to your service?<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I think watching violent acts <i>(in VR- virtual reality)</i> is a violent act in and of itself." bemoans <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b074zy9v" target="_blank">Will Self on BBC Point of View.</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/wself">@</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/wself">WSelf</a> draws no comfort from an alleged drop in violence in the real world, as he sees us increasingly expressing our innate tendency towards violence in the virtual and online worlds.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">Even a simple smartphone screen, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">a</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;"> virtual experience, at the low end of immersion, has the power to make people forget where they are, what they are doing and who they are with. This has led to a </span><a href="http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/priorities-cell-phone-crash-data.aspx" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: black;">death rate </span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 16px;">of at least <a href="http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/priorities-cell-phone-crash-data.aspx" target="_blank">one in a million per year in the US </a>and rising. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That is </span><u style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">not </u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my vision. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My vision is to use VR, or rather it's "beefed-up" cousin, <b>ER </b>(</span><b style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Enhanced Reality </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- not to be confused with Augmented Reality - AR) to allow us to solve many of the challenges we face in organisations and businesses and to enable us to do many things which, without ER, are completely impossible, such as having an interactive brainstorm with colleagues from around the world without taking a step towards each other!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want to use the same emotionally engaging, intellectually collaborative and physically immersive environment to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- boost business productivity by <b>the power of five*</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- embed executive education by the<b> power of five*</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- give us more <b>time to give a damn about our interconnected living environmen</b>t - sort of the opposite of violence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think working collaboratively in an educated way (in ER - Enhanced Reality) is an enlightened act in and of itself.</span><br />
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UNCERTAINTY - The leadership and strategic mind-set and toolkit to help you navigate the current global uncertainty.</div>
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NEURO-COLLABORATION - Making the most of digital opportunities to allow human minds to collaborate and engage.</div>
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METAMORPHOSIS - Transforming your incumbent/legacy organisation to outperform digital disruptors.</div>
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AGILITY - Successful and fast delivery of 'foggy' change in a turbulent business environment.</div>
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PERSUASION - Innovative Leadership in Complex Times - A master class in how to get just about anyone to follow you doing something new.<br />
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-69916251187941891562016-01-06T04:37:00.001-08:002016-01-06T04:39:47.178-08:00Virtual reality is the big thing in 2016? No. Really? I don't think so.<em></em><br />
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<em>This was originally published by Prof Eddie Obeng on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/virtual-reality-big-thing-2016-really-i-dont-think-so-eddie-obeng?trk=pulse_spock-articles&trk=hp-feed-article-title-share" target="_blank">LinkedIn Pulse</a>.</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The BBC's Tech Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147 says, <strong abp="405"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dhxc1" target="_blank">"Virtual reality's the big thing in 2016."</a></strong></span></div>
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I hate to admit it but I can't imagine VR becoming the ‘Next Big Thing’. It is true that VR is pretty amazing. It draws you in, you lose track of time, and your mind is in a different place from your body – that <strong abp="411">immersive</strong> experience is exhilarating. But when you get a real ‘Next Big Thing’ it is because 'the big thing' gives us real <strong abp="412">Value</strong>. iPads helped you look so cool in front of your friends that you didn't care about the price tag. Value is simply the sum of all the <strong abp="413">Benefits</strong> you get minus the associated <strong abp="414">Costs,</strong> both financial and emotional (for the geeks V=B-C). VR will only take off if we get the Value right!</div>
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Even I am too old and stuffy to wear one of those 'silly', bulky VR face-headsets. How would that look in the office when the CEO puts one on and bumps into a wall because of a 'lack of vision'? To give <strong abp="416"><em abp="417">me</em> </strong>Value, the benefits would have to be pretty amazing. VR would work for me if it gave me something I couldn't do without VR, easily and cost-effectively. It would have to, at minimum, give me superpowers.<br />
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Or alternatively VR would give me Value if we could reduce the Costs. For me the emotional cost is of looking silly in a 'face-headset' set. When I saw the new Star Wars movie in 3D, I was kitted out with a style-free, black version of the glasses Brains wore on Tracy Island. The film's images were more immersive than the plot. I know that VR can give you the same experience but turbocharged. But can we make the VR experience happen without the headsets? Yes we can. Do you own a sound player with stereo loudspeakers or a headset? Stereo was the big innovation which turned music into an immersive experience. Your brain is fooled into thinking you are actually surrounded by musical instruments playing. You can create an immersive experience with a screen which is big enough to capture your attention and three-dimensional sound. For me just taking away the bulky, face-headset would bring huge value.</div>
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I would be primarily interested in using VR to help my enterprise. For you as an executive or senior manager, I suspect you are interested in your goals. 21st-century business success is either about: <strong abp="423">Evolution</strong> – that means innovation, agility, collaboration and continuous learning - or <strong abp="424">Domination</strong> - gaining scale, global but seamless communications, resource utilisation and decision effectiveness. VR would only get my attention if it could help me do these things better, faster and more cost-effectively than I can traditionally.</div>
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I suspect that as powerbroker in your organisation you are also probably an 'oldie'.* (* My definition of an oldie is, "anyone who is older than Google or can remember when the internet happened".) For us oldies, Value will come if the design of the VR is aimed at us. It makes use of tech skills we already possess, it allows us to use our familiar tools like spreadsheets and powerpoints. Even giving us decent text sizes and making it not feel ‘gamey’. I would want to be able to forget about the software and concentrate on the goals. All of those would boost the Value to me.</div>
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Virtual worlds are real places where people can interact. Whether your strategy is to Evolve or Dominate, your people have challenges which will best be solved through interaction. So adding <strong abp="427">interaction</strong> to the immersiveness of VR adds more Value and gives it a better chance of becoming ‘The Next Big Thing’. I suspect many games will be built with this combination in mind. But if you remember SecondLife you will know that just interaction and immersion can lead to some very strange looking avatars and awkward situations.<br />
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VR can only be ‘The Next Big Thing’ if it hits the sweet spot. It must offer so much value that it is utterly compelling. It must do something which we cannot do without it. And it must do it in a way which is easier, more convenient and cheaper than we would anticipate.</div>
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I believe that the sweet spot is the overlap between <strong abp="435">immersivity</strong>, <strong abp="436">interaction</strong> and <strong abp="437">integration</strong>. Integration is when the designer has ensured that between participants, goals are shared, alignment is easy, people are enabled to collaborate or compete towards a real outcome, in a different & better way than they can do traditionally face-to-face or using pale imitations of face to face like conference calls, lync, Skype, webex, adobeconnect and other software packages.</div>
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When VR hits the sweet-spot it will be ‘better than life’. That for me would be the equivalent of VR giving me superpowers. And it would add real compelling Value. If VR hits that sweet spot Rory Cellan-Jones would have predicted correctly and it will definitely be ‘The Next Big Thing’ for 2016.</div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-64820259480175179752015-08-23T11:45:00.003-07:002017-02-06T05:21:33.809-08:00Do you Talk Collaboration but Walk Alone?Prof Eddie Obeng's most recent blog post is an update of an article he initially wrote for Project Manager Today Magazine<br />
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More at <a href="http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/collaboration-sure-yes-but-whats-in-it.html" target="_blank">http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/collaboration-sure-yes-but-whats-in-it.html</a><br />
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<br />cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-38011684828265696942015-07-14T02:31:00.002-07:002015-07-20T05:31:20.848-07:00Cutting through the myths: NHS Scotland and QUBE by Mark Blayney<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18 months ago, NHS National Services Scotland embarked on a
change plan called QuEST. This created eight core objectives for new ways of
working, one of which was innovation. It was decided to use <span style="color: green;"><a href="http://qube.cc/"><span style="color: green;">QUBE</span></a></span>
to set up a steering group to see how an innovation framework could be
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several reasons for using <span style="color: green;"><a href="http://qube.cc/"><span style="color: green;">QUBE</span></a></span>. The first is geographical spread –
people based all over <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
are involved, and travelling times can be extensive. Added to this there is job
spread; clinicians, operations managers, and other people who might not
normally communicate with each other frequently, if at all. And thirdly, the
NHS is under pressure to use space more economically. Office space is at a
premium and managers are encouraged to find other ways to meet. That space can
be hard to find; so <span style="color: green;"><a href="http://qube.cc/"><span style="color: green;">QUBE</span></a> </span>offers a solution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><b><span style="color: #444444;">“We are made up of six distinct business units that don’t have much
to do with each other,”</span></b> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">says Dr Tammy Watchorn, Head of Service Improvement &
Innovation<br />
in Clinical Directorate, NHS National Services <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></i><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: #444444;"><b>“None of the team knew
each other and we wanted to test the environment.”</b></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> One
of the problems with meetings can be getting everyone organised to be in the
same place at the same time. <i><span style="color: #444444;"><b>"With <a href="http://qube.cc/">QUBE</a> we use ‘drumbeats’
– you set the time and place and it happens, regardless of whether everyone
shows up or not. If they don’t attend, we can update them later; all of the
work done is on the whiteboards for them to see. After eight weeks we had a
framework that built trust and quickly felt like a natural way of working. We
presented it to the executive team, who were impressed enough to give approval
to further projects after the pilot using QUBE.”</b></span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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tech-savvy person. I thought, if I can use it, then anyone can!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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take-up; one is cultural, and one is technological. The cultural issue is that
it can be hard to explain <span style="color: green;"><a href="http://qube.cc/"><span style="color: green;">QUBE</span></a> </span>unless you try it out for yourself;
and there can be resistance from people if they think it’s merely a
sophisticated version of conference calling. <span style="color: #444444;"><b><i>“Once people have tried it, however,”</i>
Dr Watchorn says<i>,
“they quickly convert. I don’t think there’s been anyone who really hasn’t
bought into it.”</i></b></span> Technologically, the NHS is a huge organisation
with different directorates, and some were more positive about allowing the new
technology past the firewalls than others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fiona Genasi, Nurse Consultant in Travel Medicine for Health Protection
Scotland. <i><span style="color: #444444;"><b>“But
once everyone is there together, the possibilities <a href="http://qube.cc/">QUBE</a>
offers become clear.”</b></span></i> For example, several of the contributors to
the project agreed that the necessity of face-to-face meetings, as opposed to
meeting on <span style="color: green;"><a href="http://qube.cc/"><span style="color: green;">QUBE</span></a></span>, is actually something of a myth<i><span style="color: blue;">. </span><span style="color: #444444;"><b>“The CEO of NHS
National Services <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
visited the team on</b></span></i><span style="color: #444444;"><b> <a href="http://qube.cc/">QUBE</a>,” </b></span>Fiona
says. <b><span style="color: #444444;"><i>“Because
of the ‘spin casting’ – where you go round the room and everyone has their say
– people said things that you’d never dream of saying in a formal setting. For
many of these people it would have been the first time they’d been in the room
with the Chief Executive.”</i> </span></b>Jane McNeish, Senior Nurse Epidemiologist
for Health Protection Scotland, agrees. <span style="color: #444444;"><b>“<i>Face-to-face is good, of course,”</i> </b></span>she says,<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span><b><span style="color: #444444;">“but actually <a href="http://qube.cc/">QUBE</a> brings some significant advantages by actually
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older user</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="color: blue;">.
</span><span style="color: #444444;"><b>“You’re talking to an older user,” </b></span>says Jane, <span style="color: #444444;"><b>“and I’m not a particularly tech-savvy person. I thought, if
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<br />cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-83375984300988988572015-04-30T12:48:00.000-07:002015-04-30T12:48:04.273-07:00Provoke, Inspire, Educate, Facilitate, Enable....Pentacle was established to fulfill a quest. To make the world see the reality of our World After Midnight - the 21st century world where change happens faster than we can learn at a global scale across millions of people. <div>
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In the <a href="http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/another-way-of-thinking-about-moving.html" target="_blank">latest post </a>from Pentacle's Founder and Learning director <a href="http://eddieobeng.com/" target="_blank">Professor Eddie Obeng </a>he uses a video to explore the challenge people have in unlearning and relearning a new way to look at things and operate. </div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-83059134119474875162015-03-25T06:30:00.000-07:002015-03-25T07:34:42.509-07:00Q: How do you include someone who isn’t there? A: By using the fourth dimension with QUBE.For nearly 30 years the <a href="http://www.stthomas.edu/" target="_blank">University of St Thomas</a> in Minnesota, US, has been holding <a href="https://www.stthomas.edu/workplaceforum/" target="_blank">The Forum on Workplace Inclusion</a>, bringing organisations together to discuss issues of diversity and the best ways to make sure people at work feel included.<br />
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Last week the Forum faced the problem “how do you include someone who isn't there?”. Prof <a href="http://eddieobeng.com/" target="_blank">Eddie Obeng</a>, the keynote speaker, was thousands of miles away at the time!<br />
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The answer was to think in the fourth dimension by adding <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a>, <a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/" target="_blank">Pentacle</a>’s revolutionary 3D learning environment. Eddie connected to the audience from a qubicle (virtual classroom) on QUBE, which meant that not only were they able to see and hear him present in real time, they were also able to interact and ask him questions throughout the session.<br />
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So did the audience feel included, even though the presentation was virtual? Here are some of the reactions:<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/EddieObeng">@EddieObeng</a>'s virtual keynote was more engaging than many live ones I've seen! I want to attend his virtual biz school. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/workplaceforum2015?src=hash">#workplaceforum2015</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/workplaceforum2015?src=hash">#workplaceforum2015</a> never before heard a speaker with this wonderful combination of creativity, ingenuity and energy. <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieObeng">@EddieObeng</a><br />
— Lisa Fain (@lzfain) <a href="https://twitter.com/lzfain/status/578550384291119104">March 19, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieObeng">@EddieObeng</a> shared some great ideas with us virtually <a href="https://twitter.com/WorkplaceForum">@WorkplaceForum</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThankYou?src=hash">#ThankYou</a> <a href="http://t.co/ICjKkikX0R">pic.twitter.com/ICjKkikX0R</a><br />
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If you want to know how going four dimensional can benefit your organisation, <a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/ContactDetails.htm" target="_blank">contact us</a> or <a href="http://domino-212.pentacle.co.uk/mailhand.nsf/QUBE_TryIt" target="_blank">try QUBE</a> for yourself.</div>
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Commuting heaven? What tomorrow's urban transport systems might look like. That was the header on the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30981226" target="_blank">BBC News page yesterday.</a><br />
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Yesterday during an NHS NSS review 'qall' on QUBE (<a href="http://qube.cc/">http://QUBE.cc</a>) Kerry Russell said,<i> "Isn't it about time we began to think of a world post meetings" "A world where we do things differently much better, learn new things, get the work done and make decisions?" "This is what I liked about working on QUBE."</i><br />
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About a fifth of the energy we use is used for transport - mostly to move people from homes (with computers connected to the internet) to and from offices or schools (with computers connected to the internet) or to and from meetings.<br />
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Any serious plan to re-balance the world that doesn't involve a radical rethink about moving electrons instead of people isn't really serious.<br />
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<a href="http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1175002/" target="_blank">About a fifth of the average worker's time is spent in meetings of which a quarter of that time is completely wasted</a>, according to<a href="http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1175002/" target="_blank"> Management Today</a>. <a href="https://hbr.org/2014/05/your-scarcest-resource" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review</a> warns us that for senior management, it's more like four-fifths spent in <a href="https://hbr.org/2004/09/stop-wasting-valuable-time" target="_blank">meetings</a> and that doesn't even take into account the time spent getting there and back! <a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/making_time_management_the_organizations_priority" target="_blank">McKinsey's warn about the wasted time.</a> But worrying about time is not enough. In our fast-changing, complex world, without new learning, how good is the quality of any decisions taken in these meetings? How good is the perspective of any plans made in these meetings?<br />
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Any serious plan to build a world-beating 21st-century business or organisation that doesn't involve a radical re-think about how to integrate continuous, collaborative learning and working into the core of the enterprise instead of individuals working independently and meeting up periodically to share 'past sell-by-date' thoughts isn't really serious.<br />
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Join us and experience what working and learning does look like in the 21st century at our open inspiration event <a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/QUBE_IM_2015.htm" target="_blank">http://PentacleTheVBS.com/QUBE_IM_2015.htm</a> or just <a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/ContactDetails.htm" target="_blank">contact us</a> to find out more.<br />
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<br />cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-24031178885164768152014-12-28T19:20:00.000-08:002015-02-08T04:05:45.412-08:00Instructions for INNOVATION*<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0.21cm;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i>“The process of </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i><b>Turning</b></i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i> (new) </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i><b>Ideas</b></i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i><b>into</b></i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i><b>Money</b></i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black, sans-serif;"><i> (or social benefits).”</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">1- Innovation is change – so the <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UxZLcZYKDx4C&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=laws+of+change+obeng&source=bl&ots=_INGnHanwY&sig=W4XoHKW23vqKCTJWgyy7HJd1Wns&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E8GgVPeOHMbpaISjgfgM&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=laws%20of%20change%20obeng&f=false" target="_blank">Laws of Change</a>** apply. But because it is (new) change, engagement must be more than logical – it must be emotional and/or cultural</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">2- The <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a-e3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PR2&lpg=PR2&dq=sparq+obeng&source=bl&ots=j2lFE5rMOd&sig=Nx0NXNwi5uJdymPgOWzpVE4hvpY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UMKgVI_4D8n-UOWpgJgL&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=sparq%20obeng&f=false" target="_blank">Sparq</a> of an idea goes on a </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>journey</i></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> to end up as Money (Social Benefits) – as on any journey </span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>The</b></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>Speed of Innovation</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> and time taken </span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>is<span style="color: green;"> Determined by the Bottlenecks not the number of ideas which set off!</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="color: green;">. </span>In a complex system there are rarely ever more than half a dozen bottlenecks. Innovation has five potential bottlenecks:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">3- </span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>For every extra idea squeezed through the bottleneck you will have an extra innovation</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> – so <a href="http://youtu.be/mWh0cSsNmGY" target="_blank">increase the throughput through the bottlenecks</a>. All time and resources spent on nonbottlenecks will have no impact at all on the level of innovation achieved. Its’ not how big the funnel is it’s the size, organisation and use of the orifice!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">4- Sparqs which originate outside the organisation,<span style="color: green;"> <b>Pull Sparqs</b> </span>are at risk inside the organisation – Sparqs which originate inside the organisation,<span style="color: green;"> <b>Push Sparqs</b> </span>are at risk outside the organisation. <span style="color: green;"><b>The </b></span></span><b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>closer</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> to the end recipient the Sparq originates the more likely it will be accepted. The </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>closer</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> the Sparq originates to the capabilities of the organisation developing it the more likely it will be executed.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">5- <span style="color: green; font-weight: bold;">Because innovations change the world they enter,</span><span style="color: green;"> </span>success is not just the impact of doing something. <b style="color: green;">Success is the sum of the effect of doing something AND downsides of doing nothing!</b><span style="color: green;"> </span> This means that conventional business cases and value calculations are irrelevant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">– Watch Eddie Obeng on TED global talking about innovation at </span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Meet, interact and apply this with <a href="http://eddieobeng.com/" target="_blank">Eddie Obeng</a> and your work colleagues on <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/inventtomorrow.htm">http://pentaclethevbs.com/inventtomorrow.htm</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Read about other companies using Eddie <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obeng's Innovation Accelerator</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<a href="http://qube.cc/accelerate-innovation-across-a-global-organisation-in-a-fast-moving-market/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://qube.cc/accelerate-innovation-across-a-global-organisation-in-a-fast-moving-market/</span></a></div>
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The latest iteration of <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a>, the world's most engaging collaborative learning and business transformation social medium, was released earlier this month. Version 3 improves almost every aspect of QUBE, which means more learning, easier to use, faster, fully integrating learning and doing real work and completely eliminating the difference between ‘being online’ and ‘being there’.<br />
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To celebrate the release and give people an opportunity to try out the new version, <a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/" target="_blank">Pentacle</a> threw a launch party. Of course, the party took place entirely on QUBE, so that people around the world could join without having to leave their own desk. The New World Café was decorated specially, and there was a virtually unlimited supply of virtual champagne.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Users chatting on the New World Cafe<br />lawn, in front of the main presentation<br />screen</td></tr>
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Throughout the day veteran and new QUBE users dropped by to meet the Pentacle team, including professionals from <a href="http://akzonobel.com/" target="_blank">AkzoNobel</a>, <a href="http://amey.co.uk/" target="_blank">Amey</a>, <a href="http://atkinsglobal.com/" target="_blank">Atkins</a>, <a href="http://baesystems.com/" target="_blank">BAE Systems</a>, <a href="http://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">Birmingham Community NHS Trust</a>, <a href="http://www.dukece.com/" target="_blank">Duke Corporate Education</a>, <a href="https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=295" target="_blank">Gower Publishing</a>, <a href="http://granthornton.com/" target="_blank">Grant Thornton</a>, <a href="http://www.lexmark.com/" target="_blank">Lexmark</a>, <a href="http://www.telefonica.com/" target="_blank">Telefónica</a>, <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/" target="_blank">Thomson Reuters</a>, <a href="http://www.vink.com/" target="_blank">Vink</a>, <a href="http://www.vizeum.com/" target="_blank">Vizeum</a> and <a href="http://www.wolterskluwer.com/" target="_blank">Wolters Kluwer</a>, among others.<br />
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Many of the <a href="http://www.pentaclethevbs.com/People.htm" target="_blank">Pentacle tutors</a> were on hand to demonstrate how working on QUBE increases engagement and makes collaborating with geographically-dispersed colleagues easy. Dr <a href="http://pentacle.co.uk/Downloads/BioNotesAndCVs/ThumbnailDavidLomas.pdf" target="_blank">David Lomas</a> spoke about some of the new features available in Version 3, and Prof <a href="http://eddieobeng.com/" target="_blank">Eddie Obeng</a> outlined his vision for the future of executive and management education. Guests who had previously attended courses on QUBE shared their experience of how working virtually had enhanced performance in their organisations, and there were also video showings on the lawn screen, such as Eddie’s <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world" target="_blank">TEDGlobal talk</a>.<br />
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By the end of the launch party, it was determined (using the handy Carbon Calculator built into QUBE) that a total of 42,479 miles of travel had been saved by everyone meeting on QUBE instead of physically. This means that all the participants would have had to drive for 21 hours (or fly for 6 hours) each, and 103 trees would have had to be planted to offset the carbon emissions!<br />
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If you weren’t able to attend the launch party, don’t worry. If you gather together a couple of your colleagues, you can have a “guided tour” with one of the Pentacle tutors, who will run a short workshop for you on a useful topic. To book a time, go to <a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/ContactDetails.htm">http://PentacleTheVBS.com/ContactDetails.htm</a><br />
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<i>If you haven’t already downloaded Version 3 of QUBE, you can get it from </i><a href="http://qube.cc/Downloads">http://QUBE.cc/Downloads</a> <i>. First time using QUBE? Go to </i><a href="http://pentaclethevbs.com/QUBE_TryIt.htm">http://PentacleTheVBS.com/QUBE_TryIt.htm</a><i> to get an entry pass.</i>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-48492483151765747132014-10-15T14:42:00.000-07:002014-10-15T14:44:19.363-07:00When a nomination challenge is turned into fun & learning...<a href="http://eddieobeng.com/" target="_blank">Eddie Obeng</a> explains how he has accepted a Challenge to spread <a href="http://on.ted.com/b0VdQ" target="_blank">the idea in his TED Talk</a> that <em>"Most of us spend our lives reacting to a world that we recognise and understand but which no longer exists."</em><br />
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Link to the blog... <a href="http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/ive-been-nominated-now-its-your-turn.html">http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/ive-been-nominated-now-its-your-turn.html</a><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">When Habit Trumps Innovation</span></strong> <br />
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If you know me , you'll know I like quirky, non-mainstream tech. At home I still have a "Pick up, tap, tap, tap and shout 'Operator' several times!" phone and a Bakelite phone (both still work!).<br />
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In the late 1980s I decided to "splash the cash" and buy a cordless phone. I'd seen it for sale in Tottenham Court Road in London but the stimulus, as always, was when I described it to a friend. They laughed at me impulsively and asked why on earth anyone would need a cordless phone? As a rule I use derisory laughter at ideas I propose as a sure-fire acid test of innovative change. So I bought it, took it home and installed it.<br />
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I waited patiently for someone to call me so I could experience the freedom of walking to the hall, answering, and walking back to the room I'd been in and continuing what I was doing rather than as usual, being forced to sit chained (or corded if you prefer) to the phone in a freezing hall!.<br />
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I waited. Then it rang. Joy! It was my mum. I picked up the phone, sat down and fifteen minutes later was shivering as I hung up. Yes. I had done what I had always done picked up the cordless handset and sat down next to the base on the bench we always sat on to make calls.<br />
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When the moment for innovation came, I simply forgot my opportunity to do something different. My automatically learned actions kicked in. I didn't even consider not sitting down - it never came up into my conscious decision-making brain! It took a pile of books on the seat and about a month of conscious hard work to create the habit of picking up and walking away. (Developing the habit to put the handset back was far easier - I didn't have to unlearn anything.)<br />
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<em><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">Despite my best efforts my habit subverted my conscious desire to innovate.</span></strong></em><br />
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I was reminded of that story today when I came across a number of long <strong>email</strong> exchanges between several Pentacle tutors who've just joined the network. Just like me, they had let habit overcome innovation. As Pentacle tutors they now have access to <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a> the most powerful collaborative-social medium in the world - they could easily have resolved the discussion on <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a> with a meeting as qubot avatars or by working asynchronously or by leaving videos or snapshots to explain the details but instead they had resorted to multiple <strong>emails</strong>!<br />
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-55637989389637404592014-06-22T06:13:00.003-07:002014-06-23T02:50:07.092-07:00When the World's Leading Advisors Innovate they turn to QUBE<br />
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Over the past 176 years <a href="http://www.wolterskluwer.com/About-Us/At-a-Glance/Pages/At-a-Glance.aspx" target="_blank">Wolters Kluwer</a> have innovated to provide the most relevant information in the most effective and efficient way.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pentacle.co.uk/NewPortal12.html" target="_blank">Pentacle</a> were delighted when <a href="http://www.wolterskluwer.com/About-Us/Vision-Mission/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Wolters Kluwer</a> asked to use <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE </a>to develop and facilitate a crucial global project being delivered internally. 25 executives and senior managers from the regions e.g. EMEA, Americas etc., across the world learnt the supporting Pentacle's <a href="http://worldaftermidnight.com/" target="_blank">World After Midnight</a> (WAM) concepts and tools and applied them to deliver an excellent solution. The solution required deep buy-in not only from the participants but also from their stakeholders. The project which normally would have taken several months was delivered without a single flight, in less than a month with human engagement and putting in place some new & deep relationships!.<br />
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<a href="http://qube.cc/qube-efacilitator/" target="_blank">The Pentacle QUBE Spring eFacilitator course </a>began last Thursday. Over three gruelling weeks the participants will be transformed from novice <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a> facilitators to being able to deliver engaging qubinars. <span style="text-align: center;">The course structure is based on the UK General Aviation course for helicopter pilots. Over the three weeks the intention is to give participants as many 'flying hours' as possible to enable them to go Solo,</span> coach and lead on <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a>.<br />
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<span style="text-align: right;">The participants get to develop an understanding of </span><a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a><span style="text-align: right;">, how it functions and the safe operating limits, while becoming very comfortable and familiar with the controls. In the first module they get to explore all the directions of functionality. Everything from making furniture appear to how to find the cheat sheets that accompany every single embedded </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacle_(The_Virtual_Business_School)#Pentacle_PETs_.28Performance_Enhancement_Tools.29" style="text-align: right;" target="_blank">Pentacle Effectiveness Tool (PET)</a>.</div>
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The first set of <a href="http://qube.cc/pentacle-tutors/performance-enhancement-tools-pets/" target="_blank">PETs </a>included: <i><b>Hopes & Fears<sup>TM</sup></b> (engaging everyone from the start), </i><i style="text-align: center;"><b>SpinCasting<sup>TM</sup></b> (keeping everyone engaged during the session), <b>Learning Cycle</b> (the importance of learning in the New World - how can we make sure that we realise what’s happened, including your thoughts about it, identifying a pattern and figuring out how to apply it) and <b>5Ps<sup>TM</sup></b> (briefing people in situations of uncertainty and ambiguity).</i></div>
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Each module is summarised as <b><a href="http://qube.cc/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">QUBE</a> Learn </b>(the New World leadership and business management tools), <b><a href="http://qube.cc/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">QUBE</a> Do</b> (activities and actions for applied learning) and <b><a href="http://qube.cc/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">QUBE</a> Ware</b> (an understanding of the platform), which together provide the basis of good Airmanship or good QUBEpersonship.</div>
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Each module is followed by a significant piece of coursework. There is a final exam and the course ends with the participants going solo. <a href="http://qube.cc/pentacle-tutors/performance-enhancement-tools-pets/" target="_blank">Find out more about how you can use</a> <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a> <a href="http://qube.cc/pentacle-tutors/performance-enhancement-tools-pets/" target="_blank">to boost your business either as a consultant/coach by enabling you to develop a global market from your desk or as a business leader wanting to develop a high-performing dispersed team</a>. <a href="http://qube.cc/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/QUBE_E_FACILITATOR_COURSES3.pdf" target="_blank">Download brochure.</a></div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-45705471484482699442014-05-28T11:17:00.001-07:002014-12-12T04:43:29.498-08:00A New Way of Learning For Heathcare Professionals around the worldIntroduced, <i>"It is totally appropriate for an online guru and pioneer that he is joining us online as his virtual form...,"</i> Pentacle's Eddie Obeng spent 40 minutes saving the world hundreds of thousands of miles of travel by running an interactive session at the <a href="http://www.peopleinhealthsummit.com.au/agenda" target="_blank">People in Health Summit</a> from Beaconsfield in the UK to Melbourne in Australia. He achieved this using Pentacle's collaborative learning platform, <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a>.<br />
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Professor Eddie Obeng told the participants on the other side of the world that <i>"It's not about what I know, its about what you learn!"</i> and then took the audience on an engaging roller coaster of a journey. The highlight of the session was that he shared his "Why children are becoming obese.' '<a href="http://pentacle.co.uk/BubbleDiagram.htm" target="_blank">BubbleDiagramTM'</a> with the audience. </div>
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cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-8269252964859994122014-04-21T10:15:00.002-07:002016-10-17T08:52:11.184-07:00Can you see the new "World After Midnight"?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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NOTE: You can download a version of this video from <a href="http://worldaftermidnight.com/" target="_blank">http://WorldAfterMidnight.com/</a>cyberFranckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09789714216221603074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679483512038243879.post-236292097627439382014-04-15T04:55:00.002-07:002014-04-15T06:06:44.847-07:00Time Travellers use Social Media to stay out of touch<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In his <a href="http://imagineafish.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/i-dont-want-to-interact-with-data-i.html" target="_blank">latest blogpost</a>, Professor Eddie Obeng issues a challenge to all social media sites: "</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Let's make Social Media <u>really </u>Social"</b>. <b> </b>Eddie seems to think that there is a </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">big mistake with early 21<sup>st</sup>-century social media. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He writes of his love for 'swooshing and swiping' his screens, hearing in his head the god-like
voice of Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, commanding the
device to “Make it so”. And it happens! Bigger, smaller, up, down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then he complains that all the swooshing and swiping isn't natural or human, but is
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He describes how w<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">e love
broadcasting to the world and updating our timelines, describing how "somewhere inside my head I feel like a celebrity, imagining all the adoring fans who are following my every word, every tweet. (In reality it's just one or two friends who I bug until they respond.) And it sort of happens! Diagnostics tell us the hits, people tell us their likes (and dislikes). It’s not interaction, it’s not banter, it’s not a real emotional and creative discourse, but it is fun and rewarding."</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAyZcBaEpWbSevIiiG8A58NyLLdlK63zzqCMz-aP1H99TKIXoJJWR6elWlNOd-e877x7MsmFAj46RDrdCrag28PFNJ4VlX23xMXu_btoNwLeHnRKRsEZ9lzTovUPaQ7cbMi8jlWSPmSkhG/s1600/OutdoorQube.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAyZcBaEpWbSevIiiG8A58NyLLdlK63zzqCMz-aP1H99TKIXoJJWR6elWlNOd-e877x7MsmFAj46RDrdCrag28PFNJ4VlX23xMXu_btoNwLeHnRKRsEZ9lzTovUPaQ7cbMi8jlWSPmSkhG/s1600/OutdoorQube.jpg" /></a>Eddie then gives us an insight into the strategy for the development of <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a></span>, the world's first collaborative-learning social medium for executives and managers. He says: "<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When we began developing <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a>, I was adamant about many things. Mostly that it replicated as much as possible the grown-up business environment with the Trojan horse of learning disguised at its core, so that we could achieve the vision of <i>learning without boundaries</i>. I had in mind a Lloyds-style coffee house atmosphere (important to be able to breakout and have sub-conversations) mixed with a Leonardo da Vinci-style artist's studio, with younger artists learning and applying the skills they needed, showing their sketches to each other, sharing their experiments with each other and surpassing their teacher." He claims that "This is human, this is interactive, it’s banter, emotional and creative, and it’s fun and rewarding."</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Having begun to make his case against social media, Eddie invites us to watch his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9DkuR7NpYI" target="_blank">Google Zeitgeist talk</a>, where he describes how 21<sup>st</sup>-century people have stuck to 19<sup>th</sup>-century habits of commuting, so that people leave a home well-equipped with the latest computer, super-fast broadband and 21<sup>st</sup>-century tech to travel to an office <i>with</i> a slow, locked-down 20<sup>th</sup>-century computer connected to the internet through a piece of wet string! He calls commuters ‘<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9DkuR7NpYI" target="_blank">Time Travellers</a>’, as they travel back and forward covering a distance of 200 years in an hour!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Eddie then insists that by sticking to our old habits we have <b><i>no </i></b>chance of creating real demand for what he calls Social Media 2.0. He states that "</span>As long as we continue to pursue the 19<sup>th</sup>-century habit of moving atoms (our bodies) instead of electrons, we will have lots of boring, low-quality time on trains, in queues and in cars. This boring time we will fill using our mobile devices to interact with data. Why? Because although it’s a lower grade experience than interacting with people, it’s better than getting bored. And it avoids the potential awkwardness of social interaction or interrupting what a friend is doing (nothing, they are just composing a text to you!). So we broadcast asynchronously. And we read, and we watch cat videos selectively. It’s not interactive, it’s not banter, it's not emotional and creative, but it is fun and rewarding."</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGev79egdQWzp1cL-_3giLF0pSnZKUvIFgjCXUAWMdk5LPV0C1cMicPe3QFOEv1LxyLho_WrSjjsEaPFXXGepxKHZL6nRE27sPSTaOlkKvF2jmuMqNbJeSWV3YpEq-3pXL117J7LNBSl4/s1600/32_pixel_social_media_icons_full.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGev79egdQWzp1cL-_3giLF0pSnZKUvIFgjCXUAWMdk5LPV0C1cMicPe3QFOEv1LxyLho_WrSjjsEaPFXXGepxKHZL6nRE27sPSTaOlkKvF2jmuMqNbJeSWV3YpEq-3pXL117J7LNBSl4/s1600/32_pixel_social_media_icons_full.png" height="200" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally, he suggests that the real challenge for Facebook, Twitter and other social media is their business model. By operating a business model where the asynchronous, non- verbal, typed-up data generated by users is the key source of revenue, they are trapped in the mode of intermediaries, keeping us apart and out of touch so that they can collect and track the data we provide. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He ends by saying: "</span>I hope that Facebook 2.0, Twitter 2.0 and other early 21st-century social media platforms will begin to go the same way as <a href="http://qube.cc/" target="_blank">QUBE</a>, finding ways to <i>allow people to interact</i> over and above the data-driven activities. ... I do hope they will try to reinvent themselves. <i>Because I for one don’t want to interact with data, I want to interact with people.</i>"<br />
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