CHANGING MINDSETS Dr. Sivakumar Kumaresan Material and Mineral Research Unit School of Engineering...

CHANGING MINDSETSDr. Sivakumar Kumaresan

Material and Mineral Research UnitSchool of Engineering and IT

Universiti Malaysia Sabah

“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”

Eckhart Tolle

May you live in interesting times

Blind Cat runs into Dead Mouse

Chinese Expressions

Oil and Gas Business

Marginal Fields

Shale Oil Shale Gas

Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG)

Interesting Times (1)

Black Swans and Emergent Behaviours

2001 – ENRON Collapse 2004 - Tsunami 2008 - Global Financial Crisis 2011 – Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Disasters 2013 – Malaysian GE13

Interesting Times (2)

Trends

1. The Long Tail/ Big Data/ Ubiquitous Technology

2. Projects vs Jobs3. Merging of Biology and Technology4. New spirituality

Interesting Times (3)

Productive Organizational Culture Flow Attention Energy Systems Thinking 5 Minds for the Future

Outline

Positive Organizational Culture

POSITIVE

SUSTAINABLE VISION DRIVEN PRINCIPLE GUIDED WORK = PLAY LEARNING SYSTEMS

NEGATIVE

SHORT TERM BOTTOM LINE DRIVEN REAL POLITIK TIME = MONEY WORK SYSTEMS

Why do we work?

Key reasons? To learn To connect To make a difference

Meaningful Work

1. Present Moment Awareness2. Challenge = Ability3. Personal Power4. Can redefine Challenge/Goal5. No sense of Self6. Distorted Sense of Time7. Deep enjoyment of experience

Flow

1. Conscious control of attention

2. Present Moment Awareness

3. Slow is Fast

4. Thoughts, Emotions and Intuition

Train to Flow

Attention

Three types of focus

Deep Going deep into self

Directed Focused on a fixed ideation/image/prayer

Aware Expand awareness by heightening senses and

scope

(based on work of Paul Wilson, author of The Quiet)

You can’t see it You can see the effect of it You can feel it when it’s happening Energy Flows where Intention goes

It’s reflected in your language A bright future A warm person Energised/ Inspired/Engaged

Energy is Everything

Organizational EnergyHigh Energy

Low Energy

PositiveNegative

Corrosive Energy

Resigned Inertia

Productive Energy

Comfortable Energy

based on Fully Charged by Bruch and Vogel

Mood Mapping (1)

High Energy

Low Energy

PositiveNegative

AngryViolent

DepressedMoody

HappyEcstatic

CalmQuiet

based on Mood Mapping by Liz Miller

Mood Mapping (2)

High Energy

Low Energy

PositiveNegative

AngryViolent

DepressedMoody

HappyEcstatic

CalmQuiet

Mood Mapping (3)High Energy

Low Energy

PositiveNegative

AngryViolent

DepressedMoody

HappyEcstatic

CalmQuiet

based on Mood Mapping by Liz Miller

Mood Mapping (4)

High Energy

Low Energy

PositiveNegative

AngryViolent

DepressedMoody

HappyEcstatic

CalmQuiet

based on Mood Mapping by Liz Miller

A system is any group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent parts that form a complex and unified whole that has a specific purpose

Thinking in Circles NOT Straight Lines

Basic types Reinforcing (Positive Feedback) Balancing

Systems Thinking

Reinforcing

Greater your weight More you eat

Balancing

Use of meditation

Acceptable stress level

Gap

Stress levelS = Same

O = Opposite

O

S

S

Success to Successful

Limits to Growth

Tragedy of the Commons

The Disciplined Mind The Synthesizing Mind The Creative Mind The Respectful Mind The Ethical Mind

5 Minds for the Future

Cliché expression but true nonetheless

The whole world is all of us together There is no “others”

The clarity and strength of our vision shapes the future

Shaping the Future

CHANGING MINDSETSDr. Sivakumar Kumaresan

Material and Mineral Research UnitSchool of Engineering and IT

Universiti Malaysia Sabah

shiva@ums.edu.my60-16-832-7300