Leadership, Innovation and the Art of the Impossible

1. STEVE McCAULEY

2. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

3. STEVE McCAULEY Executive leadership coach Business mentor Strategy advisor

15. Helping leaders to be at their best

16. Better leadership

17. Better decisions

18. LEADERSHIP , INNOVATION AND THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

19. WHAT IS LEADERSHIP ABOUT?

20. WHAT DO EXCELLENT LEADERS DO?

21. CONTEXT

22. CONTEXTUAL INTELLIGENCE

23. VISION

26. THE PRIZE?

27. Context

28. Context Vision

29. Context Vision Prize

30. Context Vision Prize Motivation

31. Context Vision Prize Communications Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

32. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

33. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

34. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

35. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

36. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

37. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

38. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Motivation

39. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

40. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

41. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

42. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

43. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

44. Leaders frame the “future context”

45. PSYCHOLOGY

49. “ The future affects the present”

50. THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION

51. Preferred future

52. What do you see ?

53. What will it look like?

55. What do you imagine?

56. … if it’s going reall y well ?

57. What will people notice?

58. PEOPLE ARE INTERNALLY MOTIVATED TOWARDS REALISING A WORTHWHILE VISION

59. How willing are people to change?

60. WHAT IS THE MOST POWERFUL WORD IN ADVERTISING?

61. NEW!

67. PEOPLE ARE HUMAN

68. WHO IS MY CUSTOMER?

70. WHAT IS HE OR SHE BUYING FROM ME?

71. WHY DO PEOPLE BUY?

77. PEOPLE BUY THE FEELINGS THEY HOPE TO EXPERIENCE

78. PEOPLE LOVE CHANGE

80. WHAT IS THE GREATEST FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE?

81. HOPE

83. CONTEXTUAL INTELLIGENCE

84. FAILURE OF IMAGINATION

87. “ We didn’t envisage the sort of violence there’s been.” Jonathan Powell, Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, 1997-2007 BBC Newsnight, 14 March 2008

88. “ The biggest mistake was a conceptual mistake. We should have seen what a big problem this was going to be” Jonathan Powell, Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, 1997-2007 BBC Newsnight, 14 March 2008

89. FAILURE OF IMAGINATION

92. The future affects the present

93. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

94. NEW PERSPECTIVES

96. GET SOME NEW INPUTS

98. WE LIVE IN TIMES OF EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE

99. AMAZING NEW TECHNOLOGY

109. WORLD IS CHANGING VERY RAPIDLY

110. CHANGES ARE DRIVEN BY LONG TERM TRENDS

111. DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

113. DISRUPTIVE EVENTS

116. GLOBAL MARKETS

117. EXTREME SUPPLY CHAINS

119. So, how do we create the future?

120. BIG, NEW IDEAS!

123. ORGANISE ALL THE WORLD’S INFORMATION AND MAKE IT UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE

124. PROTOTYPING

125. PERPETUAL BETA

127. INSPIRATION

131. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

134. BIG, NEW IDEAS!

135. ALL YOUR MUSIC, IN YOUR POCKET, ALL THE TIME

136. ALL YOUR MUSIC, IN YOUR POCKET, ALL THE TIME IMPOSSIBLE IN 2000

140. ALL YOUR MUSIC, IN YOUR POCKET, ALL THE TIME

144. ALL YOUR MUSIC, IN YOUR POCKET, ALL THE TIME

159. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

160. BIG, NEW IDEAS

161. HARNESS THE POWER OF IMAGINATION

162. AIM HIGH

163. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

164. Better leadership

165. Better decisions

166. What kind of future can you imagine?

167. STEVE McCAULEY SteveMcCauley.com Text © 2010 Steve McCauley

171. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

174. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

175. Goals Context Vision Prize Communications Options Risks Plan Resources People Action Results Who? What? When? Media? Tone? Time Motivation

176. THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE IS TO IGNORE THAT IT IS “IMPOSSIBLE”

181. MAKE IDEAS VISIBLE

184. Avoid fossilized thinking

185. Section one What leadership is about

186. Section two What innovation is about Vision + imagination Daring to aim high Think big

187. Forces, trends, tech, factors Disruption

189. Get out more

190. Coda

191. Art of the impossible Values Ethos Re-write the rules Transform your ability to compete Define the future Raise the bar, aim high Don’t compromise your values

192. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND THE ART OF THE MIRACULOUS

193. We are immeasurably wealthy

195. “ Unless life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile”

196. Do something for others