making it happen
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Can your organization make it happen? That is what this presentation asks and explains the reasons why you should and why some do. Presentation delivered by Bryan Gray, the CEO of MediaSauce at the 2008 Fraternal Executives Association Conference in Miami, FL.TRANSCRIPT
Make It Happen:Empty slogan
or a way of life?
where are you?
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1. Eyes wide open2. Willing to risk failure3. The Hard Part
Anyone can take the helm when the sea is calm.
Economic uncertainties +
constrained resources +
New era
extraction
My neighborhood 3,600 pounds per year
0
1.25
2.50
3.75
5.00
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
price of gas
1 LB of foodtravels
2,000 miles
Past the Industrial Age...
top-down decisionsproduce goods
solving problemscheap energy
gotta keep control
Past the Industrial Age...
Thru the Information Age...
manufacture informationchop down treescreation = connectionstill about control
Thru the Information Age...
the world is suddenly...
small
endangered
in flux
familiar
accessible
interconnected
The Interconnected Age
systemic thinkingdecisions made by groups
creating solutions waste reduction/elimination
youʼve lost control
The Interconnected Age
(sustainability)
(broadband connections)
(faster decisions)
(self-organized swarms)
Economic uncertainties +
constrained resources +
New era +
SPEED
"When the rate of external change
- Jack Welchformer Chairman & CEO of GE
exceeds the rate of internal change,the end of your business is in sight."
We will be wrong faster.
Organizational strategy built around old assumptions.
Need new mental models.
Take a moment to consider this...
Founders as the ultimate entrepreneurs
Your organization came into being because enough people cared.
If your organization didnʼt exist already, would anyone
care enough to create it?
What would it look like?
Need a new model of community.
Itʼs time to reintroduce yourselfstay relevant
small thinking canʼt handle
Self-organized swarmsSustainability issues
Continual struggle for relevancySpeed of change
Being wrong
small thinking canʼt handle
Your Top 3 Challenges
1. Thinking big enough
2. Converting to action
3. Momentum
Present Path
Past Present Future
“All organizations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get” Arthur W. Jones
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where are you now?
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Vision
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The Vision GapTM
the space between your aspiration
and your present path
Vision GapTM
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Vision GapTM Whatʼs yours?
Lead
Manage
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Entrepreneurial thinkingcloses the Vision GapTM
Take a moment to consider this...
Three reasons goal setting fails
Teachers should be the students Wrong processes Desireʼs not there
Fuzzy picture
VisionInspiringIndividual interpretation“Dreams”“Key Result Areas”
Number and dateNo misunderstanding
Will or wonʼtDid it or didnʼt
Goals
BIG goalsequal to your
vision
reasons this won’t work10
Identify our hurdles
Concerns
Solutions
turn
into
focused effort
prioritize
MonthlyWeeklyDaily
momentumattractionconfidence
After strategy…AccountabilityTalentTools
“As I grow older, I pay attention less to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
- Andrew CarnegieIndustrialist, Businessman & Philanthropist
THINKThe Interconnected Age
THINK
The Vision GapTM
THINK
“may you live in
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