Time To Leave Your Confort Zone

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A conversation about ...

“The new value creation models in the Collaboration Era, the future of leadership

and the need to build people centric

organizations, where leadership and innovation

is everyone's job”


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The Collaboration Era“

“Perhaps for the first time in history, humankind has the capacity to create more information than anyone can

absorb, to foster greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change faster than anyone’s

ability to keep pace”

Peter M. Senge


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New things are happening around you...

We are heading towards a new economic order

Significant demographic changes are taking place

New value creation models are emerging

Transparency is key to the future of our organizations

Digital Natives are arriving in the workplace


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It's time to change ...“The current management is a

mature discipline and, as such,incapable of solving the new

challenges that will confront theorganizations in the new

Millennium “


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The changes required are not so obvious...

. These changes are especially hard to anticipate if you have

already reached your “comfort zone”, and you

believe that management is just a tool for managing the

“statu quo”.


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Maybe you should ask ...

How do these changes impact my customers?

What will be their impact on my products and services

competitiveness? How does all this affect me

personally? How will these changes affect my

future employability?


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Where to begin ?


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Value creation in the Collaboration Era requires

imagination, creativity and passion. It's about creating new people centric

organizations, where leadership and innovation is

everyone's job.

Jump into the lifeboat!


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Begin with your personal agenda

If you do not have a personal agenda, is highly probable that you are part of

somebody else's agenda You must have your own vision about the

the future of leadership and a personal action plan to develop yourself, start now

introducing some leadership 2.0 practices in your daily routine as a

manager.


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Challenge the “statu quo”Questioned the old ways of working that only had meaning in the past and arose to solve a

problem that no longer is relevant to the organization.

Build capacity for experimentation with low risk so that you can launch new innovation initiatives and interact with the new reality.

Gives a chance to new ideas without crippling the ability of the organization to get

their results on a daily basis.


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Interact with the new reality

What is key is not access to the information, but access to the

conversations, taking active part in them.

These are the conversations that will allow us to develop new capabilities as

leaders, to anticipate the future needs of our customers and to atract the new

digital talent required by our organizations.

Leadership = Conversations


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Foster an innovation culture

A culture that questions the "Status quo" and face challenges in unusual

ways.Find new ways to deal with future

challenges, exploring new avenues and avoiding the easy answers to problems.

Create people centric and flexible organizations, where leadership and

innovation is everyone's job.


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Search for analogies and best practices in different environments

Explore your competition's solutions and best practices.

Create your own innovation system, which will allow you to launch innovation

initiatives with limited resources. Give the new ideas a chance without

risking your organization's ability to deliver daily results.

www.infonomia.com


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Getting RealTest your ideas in a real environment, with real customers and real markets. Don't lose your time simulating reality.

Create it and experiment. Listen and improve.

Get something working as fast as you can. It is the best way to get momentum.

www.37signals.com


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Focus on execution“The missing link between

aspirations -what the leaders of the company want to achieve- and results: the organization's

ability to achieve it.”“The discipline of aligning persons

with goals in order to achieve planned results”

“A system to have things done”


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Avoid “passion killers”

Surround yourself with happy people, passionate about life and their job.

Search for good “students”: inquisitive people; people willing to

learn.. You 'd better choose an average

profesional but “passionate about his job” rather than a frustrated and

unhappy “guru”.


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Don't let legacy kill your dream

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones”

John Maynard Keynes“If you always do what you have always

done, you'll always get what you have always got”

Haines


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Maybe it's time to leave your

And above all consider that...

“comfort zone”


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Time To Leave Your Confort Zone