“the significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at...

“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

Times (and thinking) have changed…

Sure Wish They Would Invent Something To Keep The Sun Out Of My Eyes.

Basic Premises

The game of improvement has changed.

Basic Premises

We know how to get what we’ve already got – just keep doing what

we’re already doing.

Creating what hasn’t been done before is different than

maintaining even the best of the past.

Basic Premises

Basic Premises

There is no THE way to do anything –this is especially true

in regard to ‘leadership’.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Ken Olson

“A computer in every home.”

Bill Gates

President, Chairman and Founderof Digital Equipment Corp.

Basic Premises

The quality of the answers we get in lifeis a reflection of the quality of thequestions we’ve learned to ask.

The game of improvement has changed.

Don’t need to fix everything wrong

to create the future.

The answer is in the room.

Basic Premises

One concept for today…

How the Mind Focuses

1st Factor We can only

focus on one

thing at a time.

We can only

focus on one

thing at a time.

How the Mind Focuses

2nd Factor We get more

of what we

focus on.

We get more

of what we

focus on.

How the Mind Focuses

“All of life’s answers are available, if we just knew which questions to ask.”

Albert Einstein

ELSolutions

“This is not the answer, this is how tokeep asking the right questions, so

the answers continue to reveal themselvesas we need them!”

Three chapters…

bkrug@elsolutions.com

“Every generation has the obligation tofree our minds for a look at new worlds…to look out from a higher plateau thanthe last generation.

Your vision is not limited by what your mind can see; but by what your mind can imagine.”

Col. Ellison Onizuka, Astronaut

“My intention is to plant seeds of ideas

and raise doubts about what we believe.

Many of our beliefs are inherited,not opinions we have thought

through.”

Vine DeLoria, Lakota Sioux, author of over 20 books

Thomas Jefferson1787

… institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind…

as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change,

with the changes of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

“My intention is to plant seeds of ideas

and raise doubts about what we believe.

Many of our beliefs are inherited,not opinions we have thought

through.”

Vine DeLoria, Lakota Sioux, author of over 20 books

Based on…

Basic Premises

The quality of the answers we get in lifeis a reflection of the quality of thequestions we’ve learned to ask.

“Every system is perfectlydesigned to produce the results you are already getting.”

Don BerwickCEO, Institutefor Healthcare Improvement