| Find out how to step outside your
boundaries, so you can begin to anticipate and manage your organization’s future.
What is impossible to do, but if it could done would fundamentally change your business
for the better?
Implications: uncover current paradigm — how you view the world
And powerful forces that prevent changing the paradigm
How we think about the future — challenge — how to capture this body of
knowledge in a unified and dynamic way?
Retreat on: Paradigm -> Change - > Leadership
Dissected a lifeline of a paradigm
If you only have a hammer, you tend to view each problem as a nail.
The goal:
Help you discover a new way of looking at your world
Demonstrate the profound effects of your ability to anticipate the future
Explore what happens when paradigms shift and rules are re-written
Hope: by the end of program you can identify elements that make up your paradigm and
necessity of stepping outside the boundaries and search for the future
Beginning: Thomas Kuhn — Paradigm and Paradigm Shift
Science ONLY — 1973
Key to understanding change — understanding paradigms
Definition — paradigm? (According to Webster’s) A model or a pattern
According to Barker:
Any set of rules and regulations that do:
- define boundaries or establish limits (model)
- tells you have to behave inside the boundaries to achieve success (pattern)
Measure of success:
The ability to solve problems that exist inside the boundaries (What problems have you
solved recently?)
Paradigm synonyms:
Theory (can be challenged), standards, protocol, routines, rules of thumb, traditions,
superstitions, rituals, doctrine, dogma (proven by faith)
We need paradigms — bring order, predictability, helps to prioritize, filter out
unnecessary data.
Careful over time —do their job too well!
Paradign effect test: Add these numbers
(On screen undovered one at a time) 1000, 40, 1000, 20, 1000, 20, 1000, 10
What happened? Most said 5,000 (answer: 4,100)
Show another one:
Square — four dots
Move two dots and
double the size of the square
Powerful paradigms are — comfortable — trust our
lives to them.
Two ways that our paradigms work against us:
- Deny that we have them — blind
- Not willing to accept others’ have different paradigms that might be just as valid
as ours
- Your organization is a forest of paradigms (cultures)
Tress: Departments or units that have set of rules, set of boundaries:
Accounting, Sales, Legal, Operations, Development, Production, Marketing, Logistics
Know boundaries and what to do inside the boundaries
Environmentalist — change one tree and somewhere it will affect everyone —
ripple effect.
Inter-related — inter-connected — ties together — difficult to build
corporate culture — difficult to build to be healthy
Total Quality — changing the soil — and changing the entire institution
Paradigms — natural result of search for order
Working well — in control — independent — protected from events —
truth is inter-dependent — part of forest of paradigms
- What happens when an old paradigm is replaced by a new one?
Everyone goes back to zero!
No matter what market share was, what assets are, most disappears!
Just because you were dominant in the old paradigm, guarantees nothing in the new
paradigm! It is as if the race starts over again
Dominance of old — problem in the new!
Individuals — heroes in the old, now cannot adopt quick enough
Collaspe of Soviet Union — now new paradigm for US military
- How do we deal with paradigm shifting?
First — honor their fears
So devastating that many organizations do into denial!
Willingness to accept maybe it can be done!
Once you give yourself permission to think about the
obviously impossible — you are on your way to shaping your own future.
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