© Nigel Barlow 2012 Nigel Barlow Rethink Education Leadership Institute Toronto, October 2012

© Nigel Barlow 2012

Nigel Barlow

RethinkEducation Leadership InstituteToronto, October 2012


Getting a job?Getting a job?Making a living?Making a living?

Isn’t there Isn’t there an App for that?an App for that?


Patel & Patel PlumbersYou’ve tried the cowboys

. . . now try The Indians!

Think differently


Telephones

Don’t‘yes, but’the new

Laptops

Internet

Cloud


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Walking Dead

Be a player - you choose!

Spectators Players

Cynics



How minds become set

The Grid Of Experience

INPUT

MATCHING

SELECTING

Your area/Your area/schoolschool


is a holographic image

Your organization . . .

and everyone – people, parents, teachers, pupils, the press –see the whole in every contact.


Develop beginner’s mind

‘Why not?What if?’


Think beyond



= innovation or difference

Challenge Challenge

assumptionsassumptions


1. I can access all human knowledge.

The learner’s new assumptions

2. All this knowledge will be availableIn a mobile device in my pocket.It’s laterIt’s later

than you think

than you think


Web 1.0 = Read Only“See what’s been written.”

A web 2.0 world

Web 2.0 = Read, write, film, and photograph“See what I can do.”


A Re-thinker’sA Re-thinker’s

21st Century 21st Century

Syllabus!Syllabus!


A. Happiness

Even English public schools can do it!

“These lessons will challenge pupils to explore themselves and their talents, learn in a practical way how to better look after their bodies, minds and emotions, enhance their relationship with others, with technology and the environment, and help them to learn how to make themselves, not others (including friends and parents), the masters of their lives.

Dr Anthony Seldon, Master, Wellington College, Berkshire


“I don’t know what your destiny may be, but one thing I know. The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness:


B. Real learning skillsMind Map by student

James Lee. He missed six months schooling

due to illness and refused to drop back a year in his studies. He used Mind Mapping to

do a year’s work in three months, scoring

seven As and three Bsin his exams.


Real learning skills

Mind map by Lana Israel in preparation for a history examin high school. She went on to author her own mind mapping book.


C. Quiet time

15 minutes x 2 a day


D. Creativity and curiosity

“My father taught me to noticethings.” Richard Feynman

“Creativity is serious play.”

Albert Einstein


Be curious

TeachTeach yourselfyourself

ignoranceignorance


Persist and prototype

“Anyone developing [5,127 prototypes later!] new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.”

James Dyson


Find anenthusiast

Be passionate!


"Does it takethe glare of disasterto show a manin his true light?” Jean-Dominique Bauby

Anything is possible


Welcome the new


Rethink summary

1. Think differently2. Don’t ‘yes, but’ the new3. Be a player – you choose!4. Develop beginner’s mind5. Think beyond6. Be curious7. Persist and prototype8. Be passionate


End of Tuesday


Nigel Barlow

Inventing our futureEducation Leadership InstituteToronto, October 2012


The Physical Impossibility of Deathin the Mind of Someone Living

Damien Hirst, 1991


A possibility mindset

Think ‘Why not?’ ‘What if?’not ‘Yes, but’


Our mindset

“Data pointing toward the upside of optimism is plentiful; optimists live longer, are healthier and happier, make better financial plans, and are more successful.”

Dr Tali Sharot





Quiet time

15 minutes x 2 a day


“. . .insanely great products.”

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

LickabilityLickability

Invent the future


“We can’t be botheredwith strategy – we just tell stories.”

Anita Roddick founder, The Body Shop

Be a better storyteller


Ideas

‘‘Why not?’Why not?’‘‘What if?’What if?’

SelectionSelection

EvaluateEvaluatePrioritisePrioritiseReality checkReality check

ActionAction

Who/What/Who/What/When/How/When/How/Etc.Etc.

Become dreamers who doYes-but here


• One year from now• A day in the life• Achievable- but push out the boundaries• Use creativity and humour• Write in the first person

Write your story . . .

• Focus on behavioural and attitudinal changes


CommunityCustomer

YourPeople

ManagementStakeholders

360º stories


HEROHEROINE

QUESTPURPOSE

OBSTACLESENEMIES

HELPERSMAGIC

RESOLUTIONFULFILLMENT

CourageBelief

Muddyor

clear?

SelfOthers?

MentorsRisks

EnjoymentCelebration

Living the story


Celebrate success!

Successful companieshave parties.

Unsuccessful oneshave meetings.”

Sir Philip Green


1. Communicating a vision

2. Personal goal setting

3. Inspiring presentations

4. Coaching / training

5. Culture building

Using your story


Agree the first stepsyou need to take to make this storya reality.

Now work backwards


Act ‘as if’


Stay the course

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.


Stay the course

“Obviously, I wasn’t the fastest skater. I don’t think I’ll take the medal as the minute and half of the race I actually won. I’ll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.” Stephen Bradbury


You might as well –everyone else is taken.

Be yourself.


EXTRA SLIDES

MAY USE


The rise of intangibles

Innovation

Passion

ServiceValue

Smartness

Speed Belief

it’s a Knowledge Economy

ConnectednessVirtualisation


After lengthy deliberation at the highest executive level and extensive consultation with our legal department,we have arrived at an official response to NorthwestAirlines’ claim to be the number one in customersatisfaction:

‘‘Liar, liar – pants on fire!’Liar, liar – pants on fire!’‘‘Liar, liar – pants on fire!’Liar, liar – pants on fire!’

Think differently


“Tell him he’s Pele and send him back on.”

Have unreasonable expectations

Ron replied:


The learner and the learned

The learner What is learned

The process

of learning


Ref: Human Physiology 25 (1999): 171-180; International Symposium ‘Consciousness and Brain’, programme abstracts, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (June 1992): 19.

Localized Cortical ResponseWidespread Cortical Response

TOP OF HEAD

Before TM Technique During TM Technique

C. Meditation (TM technique)


“What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride through small towns, and have people be afraid of him.”

What business are we really in?

‘‘SOMETHING MORE’SOMETHING MORE’


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