Research about how plants and people grow. Work on researching parallels.

1. How can
plants and
people grow?

2. Question # 1
How well do you prepare
the environment?

3. Farmers and gardeners know you
cannot make a plant grow. The plant
grows itself.
What you do is provide the conditions
for growth. And great farmers know
what the conditions are and bad ones
don’t.
Sources
http://youtu.be/aT_121H3kLY
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/06/04/you-cannot-make-a-plant-grow-you-can-provide-the-conditions-for-growth/
Sir Ken Robinson

4. http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/2011/05/staking-out-innovation-success.html
The innovation plant needs good soil.
This means that the environment needs to
be carefully considered.

5. Prepare the ground for planting.
This task includes removing
obstacles that will interfere with
growth, as well aenriching the
fertility of the soil.
http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2010/01/post.shtml
Mitch Ditkoff

6. Upfront preparation gives you a chance to
really figure out what you’re doing before you
really start.
http://www.happenchance.net/8-lessons-in-creative-work-i-learned-from-my-garden/

7. Further inspiration
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Learning-environments-2902222

8. Question # 2
Where do you plant?

9. An important feature of an ecosystem is the
interconnection and interdependency
of each part in the ecosystem and the ability to
add specific qualities to the whole.
http://www.cld.academy/a-garden-metaphor-for-leadership-development/

10. We’re all familiar with ecosystems in the natural world. The
word refers to a localized community of living organisms
interacting with each other and their particular environment
of air, water, mineral soil, and other elements.
These organisms influence each other and their terrain. They
compete and collaborate, share and create resources, and
co-evolve.
http://d2mtr37y39tpbu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DUP_1048-Business-ecosystems-come-of-age_MASTER_FINAL.pdf

11. Maximize the potential of your organization
by planting people wisely.
http://www.theleadershipadvisor.com/2011/07/14/organizational-agriculture/

12. Question # 3
What technologies do you
use to help plants grow?

13. I suggest that a company be viewed not as a
member of a single industry but as part of
a business ecosystem that crosses a
variety of industries. James Moore
http://d2mtr37y39tpbu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DUP_1048-Business-ecosystems-come-of-age_MASTER_FINAL.pdf

14. Just as a gardener needs to put in place the
canes, cloches and trellises to support the
new seedlings, so you need to ensure there
is sufficient technology to support emergent
knowledge management activities.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/knowledge-manager-gardener-organic-metaphor-nick-milton

16. Further inspiration
http://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/11-advantages-of-using-a-blog-for-teaching

17. Question # 4
How quickly do you remove
weeds that block growth?

18. Interfere when what needs to grow is
influenced negatively by internal and/or
external influencers.
http://www.theleadershipadvisor.com/2011/07/14/organizational-agriculture/

19. To avoid developing a culture in which
people do not help each other, remove
internal competition incentives.
http://www.nickmilton.com/2010/05/pouring-weedkiller-on-km-garden.html

20. Complexity is like a weed in the
garden that can always creep back in.
Do not let the weeds grow.
https://hbr.org/2013/05/seven-strategies-for-simplifyi.html

21. Further inspiration
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Farming-innovation-1711981

22. Question # 5
What kind of fertilizer
do you use?

23. The job of the company leader is changing fast:
You have to think of yourself not as a designer
but as a gardener - seeding, nurturing,
inspiring, cultivating ideas.
Source
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/friedman-do-you-want-the-good-news-first.html

24. A garden needs fertilizer to grow. So do people.
http://www.happenchance.net/8-lessons-in-creative-work-i-learned-from-my-garden/

25. Further inspiration
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Praise-2900502

26. Question # 6
How often do you
rotate plants?

27. Many farmers follow the practice of crop
rotation, planting a series of dissimilar
crops in sequential seasons.
This practice helps to diversify risk but has
also been shown to improve crop yield.
http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/social-media-contest-how-to/

28. How do you avoid routine in your life?

29. Question # 7
How do you help plants
continue to shine?

30. As the flower appears, a
gardener has to take care of
it - in a way that will permit it
to express its nature, its best
possibilities.
Alberto Alessi
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/innovation/cultivating_innovation_an_interview_with_the_ceo_of_a_leading_italian_design_firm

31. Some of the plants in your garden will thrive.
Learn from these, find out the secrets of
their success, and seek to reproduce these
elsewhere.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/knowledge-manager-gardener-organic-metaphor-nick-milton

32. Transplant the healthiest
of the thinned out plants
to new, roomier locations.
http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2010/01/post.shtml
Mitch Ditkoff

33. https://twitter.com/jhagel/status/641243384867328000