Cutting Through Complexity

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We live in a world of increasing complexity. To succeed in life and achieve our goals at work we need to be able to cut through complexity. Custting through complexity is really cutting through CRAP.C = ConstraintsR = Rules,A = Attitudes andP = Problems

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Isn’t what it used to be

Question

Is Complexity

increasing

decreasing?

going to be

Is cutting through complexity

Small hint!

Find 3 Take Aways

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Common sense

Jack Welch

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External speed of change

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Internal speed of change

What is your role?

Change Leading Client

Development

A typical Customer

They are doing this

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Direct their thinking

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Show them the

way forward

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A journey into the unknown

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Show customers

how to get there

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Show them how to

navigate uncertainties

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Avoid becoming a

victim of complexity

Success = collaborating

with everybody

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What is your real job?

You feel like this?

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Get it right

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Get it wrong

What is your real job?

What is your real job?

Attitudes A

Constraints C

Rules R

Problems P

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Eliminate constraints

to future success

Recurrent constraints

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Collective constraint-based thinking

Attitudes A

Constraints C

Rules R

Problems P

Rule-based thinking

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Guide them in their decision

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Mental barriers

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Create choices

Attitudes A

Constraints C

Rules R

Problems P

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A fresh perspective

40

“I am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it.”

– Pablo Picasso

Attitudes A

Constraints C

Rules R

Problems P

Pirouette around

the problem

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How can can you cut

through

erent f

dif think

Resilient Thinking 3

Possibility Thinking 1

AND Thinking 2

Tell

Ask

Problem Solution

• Asking questions about

the problem

• Describing possible solutions

Conversational Compass

• Describing the problem

• Asking questions about

possible solutions

Resilient Thinking 3

Possibility Thinking 1

AND Thinking 2

Change your thinking

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The hard way

AND thinking

Child-like thinking

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Resilient Thinking 3

Possibility Thinking 1

AND Thinking 2

We see this

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They see this

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Cyclonic Separation

“You could regard the first 5,126 as mistakes, but failure is essential to innovation.”

How many prototypes?

SUCCESS Takes time

Failure comes early

Learning point

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Get it right

Going to do To cut through

What 3 things are you

COMPLEXITY?

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David R Ednie President & CEO

SalesChannel Europe Ph: +33 676 60 09 25 (FRA) Ph: +61 415 94 51 57 (AUS)

Email: david@saleschannel-europe.com Website: www.saleschannel-europe.com

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