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Live Aid
- momentum builds faster than we can organize it
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Power
- stranger- must be managed
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natural - real source of transformation
- Time is right
- analyze the underlying conditions
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Finding the flow (Csikszentmihalyi
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optimal experiences
- athletes
- musicians
- social activists
- politicians
- business leaders
- effortless action that stands out as the best
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psychological state
- creativity
- goals are clear
- feedback is immediate
- skills are stretched
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Two-way flow
- innovators influence the context
- context is influenced by innovators
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self-organization is important to achieve the flow - opposite of dominant visionary leader
- bottom-up behavior
- leader intensifies and clarifies communication
- communication must resonate- or flow will not emerge
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Recognize the existing energy and resources
- Widen the definition of resources
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for flow to occur, we need:
- common purpose
- feedback mechanism
- reasonable skill level
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Dagu
- listen and share
- collectively make sense of what is emerging
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can not control patterns
- Understand them deeply
- work within them
- influence them
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Henry Mintzberg: crafting strategy
- strategies appear like weeds
- where people have the capacity to learn
- strategies become organizational when they become collective
- guide the behavior of the organization
- deliberate element: create broad goals or "umbrella strategies"
- create "process strategies" -do not determine the content
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How To Let It Find You
- Watch for the conditions that generate flow and lead to tipping points
- Support small success - do not rely on blunt strategy of universal regulation
- Set information targets, not just performance targets
- Flow can find you if you are in the stream. Learn to observe the currents around you.
- Do not just gather information, share it.
- You are not alone.