thoughts from session 10 – Daniel H Pink

It is important that you do what you were intrinsically made to do and his biggest mistake … Law school … why did you do that? – Parents

o Go to school… get good grades … college … get a degree/job with a bit of prestige

· Abilities that mattered most were … Engineers / Doctors / Accountant / Lawyer abilities

· Brain metaphor – of the economy

o Left and right hemisphere

o Left hemisphere mattered most and still 100% necessary, BUT no longer sufficient

o Right – artist, big thinking

· Tilt from left brain thinking to right brain thinking – not a theory, truth is organisations need

· Effect – Scales are tilting towards right

o Abundance, Asia, Automation

o Abundance:

Baby boomers … 100 baby boomers turning 60 every 18 minutes, how do I live my best life?

o Asia:

· $65k in US = in India $15K per year

· Off-shore suppliers = Overhyped in short term but underhyped in the long term

o Automation – SARS online tax

· Can some one overseas do it cheaper

· Routine

· Need high concept and high

o Need novelty and nuance (not routine and right answers)

· 6 abilities that matter most

o Design … not a function

· Literate in design

· Eg: GM in the art and entertainment business (mobile sculptor)

· Eg: CEO Proctor & Gamble (Powder for waching machine) … Its all design

· MFA is new MBA

o Story

· 14 year old girl in Africa vs Head librarian at Cambridge

· Story … differentiation in a crowded market place

· Differentiator in a market place

· Cordless phone verus Wine story

o Symphony

· Not always focus focus focus

· Ability to combine the big picture into something useful

· Learn how to draw

· Seeing things differently

o Empathy

· You can’t outsource and automate it

· JSPE (Empathy index) Higher empathy saves money and gets people better qucker

o Play

· Sense of humor (games – video games)

· Laughter club … good for you psychology

o Meaning

· Meaning is moving to the centre of successful business

· A business cannot live in order to make profits

· Improve everyone on the planet

· Best companies are Not Only for profit companies

Backups &%#$%@^

Well I had a whole bunch of problems with my laptop this week so I thought it would be a good idea to reinstall Windows …. not. Of course the backups all run smoothly and you think that everything is included when you do run the backup …. not!

I realised after reinstalling everything that my ‘OneNote’ notes that I took in class for my SDC were all gone! The vids’ that I downloaded from my classmates and everything I had done up to that point had vanished. Oh well. At least I have my blog posts of the interesting points that we discussed in class.

I now have to try to remember all the ‘concepts’ for my journal that I had logged in an excel spreadsheet.

I guess its all good because now I know that in future I will double check that EVERYTHING is backed up and also I get to go through these notes to pick out my key learnings.

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This blog site is dedicated to uploading my thoughts on the Strategy, Design & Creativity elective that I am completing as part of my MBA at UCT.