Enthusiams comes from inside.
From meeting people.
Having the space to think.
Finding something new from yourself.
Something you haven't discovered yet.
Giving space for something new to emerge.
From honest inquiry.
From positivity.
Not only from ourselves but also from others.
Be slow.
Think slowly.
Be slow to draw conclusions.
Give time and space for different opportunities to rise.
Maybe?
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Meeting People in Network Events
Networks. Meeting old friends and new people. Voluntary participation. Meetings of people. Feelings. Learning. External Idea-sprinters aka speakers. Helping others to see new perspectives. Ideas. Thoughts.
All these words I can find in my mind map I constructed yesterday in the SoL Conference workshop. I think they represent well what's going on in a good network. We were there talking about role of network in learning and in team learning. It was kind of interesting and inspired me to think. I was introduced to a new term by Humap's Ilkka, instead of ROI (Return of Investment, I suppose) in networks we can talk about ROG (Return of given). I think that what you get is related to what you get. As somebody had put it in a tag in a wall in London close by the Learning House: The love you take equals to the love you make.
Recently I've been coming back a lot to the book by W.Isaacs Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. I just read about a new tool which was called something like Make Strange. The idea was to look and think about people you know actually as they were strange to you. I probably understood it somehow not in the way he meant it, but in a network event like SoL Conference it's easy to implement. There are people who are strange to you, but also those whom you already know. Has anyone got some experiences of using this tool?
All these words I can find in my mind map I constructed yesterday in the SoL Conference workshop. I think they represent well what's going on in a good network. We were there talking about role of network in learning and in team learning. It was kind of interesting and inspired me to think. I was introduced to a new term by Humap's Ilkka, instead of ROI (Return of Investment, I suppose) in networks we can talk about ROG (Return of given). I think that what you get is related to what you get. As somebody had put it in a tag in a wall in London close by the Learning House: The love you take equals to the love you make.
Recently I've been coming back a lot to the book by W.Isaacs Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. I just read about a new tool which was called something like Make Strange. The idea was to look and think about people you know actually as they were strange to you. I probably understood it somehow not in the way he meant it, but in a network event like SoL Conference it's easy to implement. There are people who are strange to you, but also those whom you already know. Has anyone got some experiences of using this tool?
Monday, November 12, 2007
Breakthrough of Team Entrepreneurs
In the Team Mastery coaching program past weekend we made a breakthrough. Our network got a name: United Team Entrepreneurs of Europe. It's launching will be at 18th of Jan 2008 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Preceded by Ignition, Learning Expedition and Team Academy. After the launch there's going to be a huge party and celebration for Team Academy's 15th anniversary and the beginning of new era of UTE. Today and tomorrow you can meet Monkey Business in SoL Conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland. I think it's going to be fun.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
On Strategic Thinking
One of the tasks for our upcoming Team Mastery is to write our thoughts regarding strategic thinking. I'm about to start a new company in the field of coaching, and I think I want to have a blog on it's website with my friends where we can publish our thoughts. So now, although the company isn't up yet we at least have a blog. And to hit two birds with one stone I am going to start it and write on strategic thinking...
Strategy is a verb that answers question how can we achieve our vision. For example, as we are creating our sales strategy we first have our goal which is 50 customers visits before 22nd of January. Then we need to create a strategy how we can get to our goal. In this case I think the strategy is basically just making enough calls every week and searching our network for people to contact and connect to.
For me, strategy isn't something written in a stone. Rather it is continuous talk about how we should work to achieve our goals. Could we call it Action Strategy. It can be and should be changed in case needed as we work and observe what happens around us.
This is my simple way to define strategy when it comes to damn small entrepreneurs (1-10 people working in a company). But one may also look at strategy from a little different point of view. I just learned about it from a Finnish Entrepreneur Jari Sarasvuo from his book Huomiotalous - Diilin opetukset (freely translated - Notion Economy - insights from The Finnish version of TV-show Apprentice: Diili). He stresses a lot the story of a company. Too many companies today lack a story. A story that changes people both within and outside the company. He asks us to ask ourselves:
"What in our story signifies hope, feeling of control, love and calls for growth? How these promises change the reality both inside our company as well as outside world?
Ok, so this is the mission, right? He continues:
"If you and your friends in your company could create history, should you? If you could rewrite the rules of your field, why would you not do that?"
Let us all ask ourselves:
"How does the world become a better place, if our story becomes a reality?"
And we want to make the world a better place, I think. We need a strategy: how can we make this happen? Strategy is very much connected to leadership. A story is a strong tool for leaders. If you don't have the story, you are probably lost. Do people know about your story? Who wants to be part of our story of creating revolutions of teams and team learning?
Strategy is a verb that answers question how can we achieve our vision. For example, as we are creating our sales strategy we first have our goal which is 50 customers visits before 22nd of January. Then we need to create a strategy how we can get to our goal. In this case I think the strategy is basically just making enough calls every week and searching our network for people to contact and connect to.
For me, strategy isn't something written in a stone. Rather it is continuous talk about how we should work to achieve our goals. Could we call it Action Strategy. It can be and should be changed in case needed as we work and observe what happens around us.
This is my simple way to define strategy when it comes to damn small entrepreneurs (1-10 people working in a company). But one may also look at strategy from a little different point of view. I just learned about it from a Finnish Entrepreneur Jari Sarasvuo from his book Huomiotalous - Diilin opetukset (freely translated - Notion Economy - insights from The Finnish version of TV-show Apprentice: Diili). He stresses a lot the story of a company. Too many companies today lack a story. A story that changes people both within and outside the company. He asks us to ask ourselves:
"What in our story signifies hope, feeling of control, love and calls for growth? How these promises change the reality both inside our company as well as outside world?
Ok, so this is the mission, right? He continues:
"If you and your friends in your company could create history, should you? If you could rewrite the rules of your field, why would you not do that?"
Let us all ask ourselves:
"How does the world become a better place, if our story becomes a reality?"
And we want to make the world a better place, I think. We need a strategy: how can we make this happen? Strategy is very much connected to leadership. A story is a strong tool for leaders. If you don't have the story, you are probably lost. Do people know about your story? Who wants to be part of our story of creating revolutions of teams and team learning?
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