Let’s Go On a Thinking Expedition
3 Sigma thinking in a 1 sigma world
Climbing Guide: Duke Rohe, BS, FHIMSS
Small print: Volunteers needed. All will go up, but some never return unchanged. Many who suffer from ‘normal’ will learn to live with different. Those who don’t will be stuck with the same.
Take a Blue Slip
Little Idea Catchers (A thought not caught is a thought that’s lost. Ideas are like
dreams: many are ha, but few are remembered)
Key Word, then subject and verb (Write like you think. In
insights)
Why do I have to write? (You can write without thinking but you can’t write
without thinking)
Personal Challenge: (How many insights can you walk away with)
Differentiators of UnusualUnusual Thinkers
Notice diffferentOpenness (zip judgment)
PlayfulnessConnecting (idea to idea connections)
Healthy Tension (Between Convergent and Divergent thinking)
Quantity (Ideas flow, and a percentage are keepers. The more ideas, the more keepers)
Headline (Good organizing)
Where Do You Think ?
Normal
(auto pilot)
Interesting
1-sigma 2-sigma 3-sigma
Breakthrough
Level 1 – Doing the right things
Start new habits (Try writing blue slips. More ideas faster means more keepers)
Journal (Thought flow must be unobstructed)
Think about thinking (Think on the side of your brain. Become a spectator of
your thinking. Take notes about yourself)
Think Me Inc. (Become the CEO of your thinking. What do you want to do with you?)
“The significant problems
we face cannot be solved at the same level we were at when we
created them.”- Albert Einstein
Level 2 – Doing the right things right
Standard operating procedures
Just in time thinking
Notice change, think about change
Optimizing the whole over the parts
Dieing on the right hill
Visual Control
Level 3 – Doing things better
Collect some good question (Which ones bring great answers)
B+ is good enoughTo ID errors, do choice mapping. (shut down the wrong one)
5 minute meeting (issues, challenges, opportunities. actions)
Pair and share (the power of two)
Me Inc. (101 Goals)
Level 4 – Doing away with things
Finding hidden waste Get rid of old habits, old gear (Insight – Do away with – when)
Red Tag things (Surgery equipment is the worst)
Me Inc. (negative self talk)
Level 5 – Do what others are doing (2nd order thinking)
Benchmark (in school you called it copying)
Seek mentorsAdopt variety, adopt the best (Exxon and Mr. Lube)
Little idea day (adopt a lobby)
Level 6 – Do things no one else is doing
Be different, change your underwear drawerThink more about your thinking (what are your discoveries)
Force connections no one is seeing(causal loop diagrams,
evaporating cloud technique)
Mindmapping, KAI, Myers Brigg
Different is relative
AQP, CPSI
Level 7 – Do what can’t be done
Go for the impossible - breakthrough
You can’t do what you haven’t done until you be what you haven’t become
Rethink yourself, redecide regularly, shift
Write one more thought
Change change, ootching