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Positively disrupt or be
disrupted
More Change in 5 years than last 50
“We've got 21st century technology, speed & norms colliding head-onwith 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.”
– AMORY LOVINS
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Social network specialists have been saying for years, beneath the formal organizational chart of any company lie hidden webs of social interactions that we rarely talk about
~ Mark Buchanan
Financial Services Firm
Post Merger
“Freight-liner”
“Speed Boats”
Adaptive Space
Entrepreneurial Pockets
OperationalSystem
AdaptiveSpace
Adaptive Space ConnectionsDiscovery – interactions that trigger novel ideas, new insights, and learning that lead to adaptation
Development – local interactions within cohesive teams to facilitate idea elaboration and refinement
Diffusion – interactions to move concepts across the broader organization to enable scaling
Disruption – interactions to overcome the stiflingly effects of formal structure and enable network closure
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Network for Discovery…
Discovery Summits
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Crafting Discovery Connections
1. Facilitate discovery activities
2. Intentionally place brokers in position to discover
3. Build bridges across pockets
the Muckers
• Small and Nimble
• Single-purpose
• Highly decoupled
• Connected through APIs
Two Pizza Rule
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Crafting Development Connections
1. Cultivate pockets of experimentation
2. Protect the boundaries of development pockets
3. Foster social cohesion to drive agility
I try to make myself happy because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy ~ Crazy Jack Ma
Diffusion
Tuesday
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Crafting Diffusion Connections
1. Provide Space for Energizers to Engage
2. Leverage the reputation of an energizer to attract
others
3. Encourage Diffusion Beyond Local Pockets
Disruption
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Crafting Disruption Connections
1. Confront conventional thinking to reduce
locked-in to past successes
2. Encourage constructive dissent
3. Seed the network to break through social
bubbles and controls
THINK BIG • START SMALL • SCALE FAST
SUMMITs
TIPPINGFORWARD
SYNAPSE
CATALYSTCAMPs
CO:LABs
Scaling Agility Principles
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