Business Impossible Transformations

by David J Patrishkoff

© Copyright 2013 – E3 Extreme Enterprise Efficiency® LLC

MISSION

IM POSSIBLE

USA Patent Pending 61,818,032

for Individuals and Organizationsfor Individuals and Organizations

with Max and Coach commentary

The 4-Step LPAT Process: The 4-Step LPAT Process: Transforming Ordinary People and Organizations Transforming Ordinary People and Organizations

Into Extraordinary OnesInto Extraordinary Ones

Hey Coach, Am I Extraordinary ??

Yes you are Max, in many ways but just not in a LPAT kind of way… However, we can work on that one.

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Competitors are highly Over-Rated

The biggest threats as well as the biggest enablers to Success are

internal, not external

YOU are the Key to Success

Somebody talking about me Coach ?

Yes Max. Success is not a spectator sport, it requires the involvement of everyone.

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The LPAT Transformation Process

•The LPAT Process is based on research that discovered the 5 Chain Reactions and their 54 elements of risk that caused most human-made

disasters in history.•These 54 elements of risk are

shown on a unique deck of cards

Cards? This looks like a game.

Yes but it’s a serious game… the game of success or failure in life and

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80% of all Work is Non-Value

Added ActivitiesThis fact gives rise to great concerns as well as great opportunities

Coach, am I in trouble here? Am I Non-Value Added ??

Relax Max, they are just blaming bad processes, not the

good people in the bad processes.

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I3 Versus E3The Battle:

Ordinary (I3) versus

Extraordinary (E3)

Coach, the E3 guys look

outnumbered by the I3 guys. Are you sure that we should be on the

E3 Team ?

E3 fights for high levels of personal and business productivity, success, job

security, career opportunities, higher income and company profits. I3 holds

people and organizations back from true greatness.

I3: Internally Implanted InefficienciesE3: Extreme Enterprise Efficiency

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Introducing the patented

Process to enable Mission Impossible

TransformationsFor Individuals and Organizations

LPAT… sounds interesting but how

do you actually create Great People

and Great Organizations?

People are not born as great leaders or enlightened professionals but they are born with

potential and character traits that can be coached to maximize their chances of great

success. The LPAT process accelerates the path to success.

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The Process of creating

Enlightened & Empowered People that can transform

Ordinary Organizations into

Extraordinary Ones

Step #1 of LPAT:•Learn how to identify the 54

inefficiencies and 5 Chain Reactions•Learn how to use the cards to create chain reaction maps on past disasters

•Learn how to identify threats

Coach, this could get complicated. I want to exercise my “Call a

Smart Friend” option. I need my buddy Sax who is a Lean Six

Sigma Black Belt.Max, build up your team, study the cards, play some card games and further instructions and training

will come later.

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Hi Coach… I’m Sax. Max asked me to join his E3

Team.

Step #1 of LPAT cont’d:

•Learn that simple cause and effect relationships do not exist in life or business•Learn about invisible and

threatening chain reactions

Guys, I can feel the beginning of a really complicated headache coming

on.

Max, Sax is right. The more experience and successes you get as a problem solver, you start to appreciate new challenges because

you build more confidence to solve them quickly.

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Max, relax, I think this will be fun.


Learn how to identify the Chain

Reactions that created famous

historical Disasters

Sax, this looks complicated. This must be music to your Black Belt

ears.You guys will get this template. Then you have to

determine which cards apply to the disaster you are analyzing and write your comments below the cards that apply to the situation under analysis. The result is what we call a completed “Chain Reaction Map”.

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Never had to identify chain reactions before

but the cards and template will help a

lot.

Step #2 of LPAT:•Practice how to counteract the 54 inefficiencies embedded in 5 Chain

Reactions•Practice creating short, mid and

long term actions to eliminate inefficiencies and diffuse risky chain

reactions

I can play poker but I never played against so many people before at the same time.

Yeah, you have 54 opponents in this game. These are the 54 different things that can go wrong in life and business. You have to practice how you

would resolve such issues if you ever encountered them.

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Wow… the Lean techniques I learned

only showed us how to deal with 8 forms of

waste and inefficiency, not 54.


•Practice undercover to better understand the 54

inefficiencies•Practice how to navigate the risks and dangers that

surround you

Coach, Sax and I are going undercover now to the I3 Dark Side so we can understand how they

operate.

Hey guys, what’s with the silly I3 Helmet and flags ?

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This could be fun.

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Step #2 of LPAT cont’d :

Practice how to be the “Master of Destruction”

ONLY to better understand how to combat these forces

of destruction later

WHAT ??? Max, you gotta stay focused here. You are supposed to investigate and BEAT the Dark Side, not join it. Your assignment is to save your company

from destruction and be the Hero !

Yup, I would make a pretty cool finger-flicking Overlord-Dude from the I3 Dark

Side.

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Destruction is so much easier than actually improving

something !

Step #2 of LPAT cont’d :

Practice to Identify and Address Self-

Inflicted Enterprise-Wide Inefficiencies…that are hiding in plain

sight…

Coach, OK, we are back from our undercover gig and it was disturbing. I3 was destroying the place in plain site with no resistance in sight. I got my camouflage outfit on now to protect my identity as a transformer.

Glad you guys are back in one piece. When an organization is inefficient, it seems very normal and OK to them. They might not always be eager to change.

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E3E3Someone blew our cover !

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Step #3 of LPAT:•Assess the presence of risky

inefficiencies and chain reactions• Assess the severity level of dangerous chain reactions

Hey, this looks like a Dominos game.

This is a scary real-life version of Dominos. Real hopes and dreams can get crushed here by invisible inefficiencies that this LPAT method

makes visible.

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This looks like an ambush to me

Max.


Assess the presence of

13 Undisciplined Leadership Traits, which can trigger destructive chain

reactions

Ok Coach, I took off my camo but I think I still need my helmet to protect me from

these chain reaction attacks.

The helmet is not a bad idea. We are looking at the “Ground Zero” Triggers of destructive Chain

Reactions. These 13 bad leadership traits can trigger an avalanche of

downstream frustration and misery.

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I know that Squeaky

Fiscalfrugal Ace... He’s dangerous!

Domino Wave #1


Assess the presence of

11 elements of a Chaotic and

unproductive Work Environment

How many waves of attacks do we have to endure in this simulated

game of life and business ?

There are a total of 5 attack waves. If these first 2 waves of attacks are

successful, it will take major efforts to repair the downstream damage they can

create.E3E3

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5 Waves ? That makes us one

wave short of a 6-Pack Attack.

Domino Wave #2


Assess the presence of21 Work Habits that

can destroy Productivity

21 bad work habits to deal with ??? I think I need more body

armor.

Most organizations ignore the first 2 waves of threats and just try to address these bad work habits to improve their performance. In reality, that’s like

addressing the symptoms and not the true root causes of bad work habits.

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Looks like a 21 gun salute

to Inefficiency?

Domino Wave #3

Step #3 of LPAT

cont’d:Assess the

presence of7 Major Attacks

on your Key Efficiency MetricsHow hard can it be to manage these

7 areas of efficiency performance?

Efficiency Performance cannot be managed directly… Efficiency is the result of good, bad and absent decisions and actions. If the threats in the

previous 3 waves were not addressed, low efficiency and low performance are inevitable

here. E3E3

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Costs are much easier to manage than these efficiency metrics. You just have to cut hours, people or expenses to

make costs go down. To counter these 7 attacks on

efficiency, you actually have to do a lot of successful Lean and

Six Sigma improvement projects.

Domino Wave #4

Step #3 of LPAT cont’d:Assess the presence ofFinal 2 Flaws that can

Sink Your Ship

Is this the last line of defense, the last chance to save the

ship and the last possible exit on the Expressway to

destruction ??

If every warning signal and threat is ignored from previous waves, the destructive

momentum will briefly pause here to check if these 2 flaws are present or not. If they are

present, the chain reactions will continue to level everything in their path. This could be “Game

Over” for many.E3E3

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This sounds like “Slam, Bam the Joke’s on you

Sam”.

Domino Wave #5

Step #4 of LPAT:Transform from the Ordinary to

the Extraordinary by creating and acting on aggressive but

realistic action plans

Coach, can you really transform Sax and I and make us Transformers of

others?

The short answer to both of your questions is “Yes”… BUT it takes the discipline and

commitment to be successful. Additional training and coaching is required to learn all of the tools and techniques needed to transform “Ordinary”

into “Extraordinary”.

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Icebergs are highly over-rated. History tries to warn us that 54 silent triggers create Chain

Reactions that have created most human-made Disasters on record. 54 linked inefficiencies sank

the Titanic. The Iceberg that Titanic hit was just in the path of a reckless race to break an Atlantic

crossing record with a flawed ship design and sub-standard rivet materials used to construct the

vessel.

Chain Reactions & History: An Iceberg did NOT Sink

the Titanic

HOLY SMOKES!! I didn’t know that about the Titanic

and I saw the movie 3 times ?

Some movies are made to entertain and not to educate.

Scientific books like “What Really Sank the Titanic” tell the

real story.E3E3

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I’m betting that the Squeaky

Fiscalfrugal Ace had something to

do with this sinking.

Chain Reactions & History:

The Titanic Chain Reactions

The Titanic sinking was a “Perfect Storm” of silently

Interacting chain reactions that collectively had the power to

sink the ship

Take cover !!… incoming Chain Reactions !

Yeah, this deadly trio cost a lot of innocent lives.

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Looks like “Three strikes and you’re

out” to me.

Image courtesy of NASA

Rocket booster o-rings are highly overrated. These 13 risky leadership practices

identified in our deck of cards crashed the Challenger. The Rogers Commission,

appointed by President Reagan, blamed NASA's flawed organizational culture and

decision-making processes for the accident.

Chain Reactions & History: A faulty O-Ring did NOT crash the

Challenger Space Shuttle

That’s a very sad story. Yes and it is a case where Domino Wave #1 & 2 threats

were ignored, which again cost innocent lives.E3E3

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I’m betting again that the Squeaky

Fiscalfrugal touched this disaster too.

Image courtesy of NASA

Spacecraft Thermal Protection Systems are highly overrated. They cannot protect the crew from risky leadership practices identified in our deck of cards. The Roger’s Commission found that NASA had many organizational flaws that led to the disaster and that they had improved

little since the Challenger disaster, 17 years earlier.

Chain Reactions & History: Damaged Tiles did NOT crash the

Columbia Space Shuttle

Coach, How could NASA have made such mistakes?

Sometimes people are very good at doing the really hard

stuff and very bad at doing the simpler stuff.

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I just changed my mind about

wanting to be an astronaut.

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www.BTWarGames.comLearn the Patent Pending Process that enables Personal and Organizational Transformations

USA Patent Pending 61,818,032

Can you really patent

this methodology ?

Yes this is patentable, as long as it’s truly unique and never been done before.

Edutainment is a big part of the LPAT method, which includes a little fun with business

improvement techniques. E3E3

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Thanks for joining me Sax and thank you Coach for the overview ! What’s

next ? Get a set of these cards at BTWarGames.com,

start studying them and get ready for some serious E3

Transformer training after that.

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I’m in for the E3 long haul with you Max. This could be fun !