To be presented in Bangkok in April 2017

1. Cameron Paterson
E: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.au
T: cpaterso
The Network Wins
Image: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

3. Mindfulness is… “the power
tool that all the other literacies
depend upon”
(Howard Rheingold, Net Smart)

4. At School (in the year 2000) by Jean Marc Cote, 1899

9. Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_acvfJQO0

18. “The future of schools lies in networks rather than
hierarchies, in lateral rather than vertical organisations.
Networks cannot be managed the same way that
hierarchies are managed. Social networking is a different
way of organising.” (Professor Richard Elmore)

19. Explicitly teaching people to work in teams
“The knowledge-based, twenty-first-
century organization depends on cross-
disciplinary collaboration, flattened
hierarchies, and continuous
innovation”
Amy Edmondson

20. The Race
• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest
Adventure Race
• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams
• Unknown terrain, multiple routes
• Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion,
navigational errors, injury
• 75-95 teams each year
• 55% of teams do not finish
• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs
• $250,000 purse

21. Map of Race
Day 1-2
Day 4-5
2004 Race Overview

22. 50%
70% Conditional
Claims
Assertive
Claims
Team
Performance
HighLow
30%
How do claims of knowing vary across teams?

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24. “Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom. They
discover how to do their jobs through informal learning: talking,
observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the
know.” (Jay Cross)
Become more intentional about informal learning

25. “The successful organization of the future will have two organizational
structures: a Hierarchy, and a more teaming, egalitarian, and adaptive Network”
(Kotter, 2014).
Design for flexibility and responsiveness

26. Foster diverse
connections
Map of
Knowledge
from Los
Alamos
National Lab

27. Devolve decision making
Jelmer Evers, Changing Education From the Ground Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Pp_keHKdY

28. Embrace complexity

29. Craft a narrative

30. The Speech that Made Obama President:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY

31. Leading Networks
1. Are we explicitly teaching people to work in teams?
2. Are we becoming more intentional about informal learning?
3. Are we designing for flexibility and responsiveness?
4. Are we fostering diverse connections?
5. Are we devolving decision-making?
6. Are we embracing complexity?
7. Are we crafting a narrative, a compelling case for change?

32. “There is clear consensus that the future now
emerging will be extremely different from anything
we have ever known in the past. It is a difference,
not of degree, but of kind.”

35. Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge
A Zen ink painting from Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)

36. The Martian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8