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Topic: Boss - free Implementation of STM /Stuff That MATTERS!

Topic: Boss - free Implementation of STM /Stuff That MATTERS!. “This is all I ‘know’ in the world!” Tom Peters. I. THE IDEA “4Fs”: F ind a F ellow F reak F araway. World’s Biggest Waste … Selling “Up”.

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Topic: Boss - free Implementation of STM /Stuff That MATTERS!

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  1. Topic: Boss-free Implementation of STM/Stuff That MATTERS!

  2. “This is all I ‘know’ in the world!”Tom Peters

  3. I. THE IDEA“4Fs”: Find a FellowFreak Faraway

  4. World’s Biggest Waste …Selling “Up”

  5. Recruit [a/a = 1] Friend [in the Boondocks]Skip [Flip off] the Hierarchy!Recruit [A]nother Friend!Do Some Cool Shit! Fast!Surround the Bastards [with WOW WINS/ results]!

  6. Heart of the MatterK2K!**Kook to Kook

  7. “Lead” customers!K2K redux!

  8. Alliance Skills!Let the [Freak-Pioneer] Customer Pay Part, Own [Part], and Lead Us - Push Us!

  9. And for the 6-Person Group??Send one “Cool Dude/Dudette” out to Find Something Cool, work with a Cool Customer, etc. [The “Micro-Skunkworks Strategy”]

  10. Fact: Skunking/ Starting a Skunkworks is a tactic available to a junior supervisor … or even an independent contributor.

  11. Create a Personal University of Weird!

  12. II. THE NUGGETDo Something. Do Anything.Get Going.Now.

  13. Opportunity ALWAYS Knocks VFCJ*“Strategy”*Volunteer For Crappy Jobs

  14. Is It …“The Oh-Shit-I-Wish-It-Were-Over Memorial Day picnic”or “The First Annual Seriously Kewl Celebration of Our Incredible Staff”

  15. Is It …Wrestle the damn Safety Manual into line with the ridiculous new OSHA Regs?Or …A stealth opportunity to address the War for Talent via … a thoroughgoing review of how safety and environmental issues contribute to making this a Great Place to Work?

  16. Is It …Fix these bloody customer problems that have cropped up with the new 2783B?Or …A chance to work with a hotshot, young division GM on …using the Internet/Internet Speed to revisit the entire process of how we get customer input – before and during the fact – into the heart of the Product Design Process?

  17. Reframers’ Rules:Rule 1:Never accept an assignment as given! (Please.)Rule 2:You’re never so powerful as when you are “powerless”!Rule 3:Every “small” project contains the entire enterprise DNA!

  18. Bottom Line …ANYTHING CAN BE THE RAW MEAT FOR YOUR CRUSADE!

  19. III. THE TOOLPrototyping Mania!

  20. Culture of Prototyping“Effective prototyping may be the most valuable core competence an innovative organization can hope to have.”Michael Schrage

  21. MTTP5 …..Days!

  22. “You can’t be a serious innovator unless and until you are ready, willing and able to seriously play. ‘Serious play’ is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation.”Michael Schrage, Serious Play

  23. Think about It!?Innovation =Reaction to the PrototypeMichael Schrage

  24. “Good prototypes have ‘charisma.’ They create narratives … tell stories.”Michael Schrage, Serious Play

  25. Leadership!“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership isthe effective communication of a story.”Howard GardnerLeading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

  26. “Small Win” = BIG WIN = Demo = Realism = Track Record = Attractant/Catalyst

  27. Ready.Fire!Aim. Ross Perot, Wayne Calloway, Harry Quadracci, et al.

  28. Fail. Forward. Fast.High-tech exec, PA

  29. He who has the quickest O.O.D.A. Loops* wins!*Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. / Col. John Boyd

  30. Secret: Creating the …Rhythm of Prototyping

  31. IV. THE SOFT STUFF 1Show Up!Connect!

  32. Message:It’s Community Organizing, stupid!See: Saul Alinsky’sRules for Radicals

  33. P.S. …Mark McCormack: 5,000 miles for a 5 min. meeting.

  34. “It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president.He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.” Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect

  35. Engagement Redux!“You all know all the notes. But can you make them believe you? Can you play & convey like love itself? Abject despair?”Source: Ken Silvia, paraphrasing, on Yo Yo Ma’s Master Class at the World Cello Congress 2000

  36. Engagement Redux!“He [Yo Yo Ma] performs, he is contemporary, he invites us into his rich emotional world; we celebrate with him. You sound in pain, like people playing 300 year old music.”Source: Ken Silvia, on varieties of “performance” at the World Cello Congress 2000

  37. V. THE PROCESSSummary

  38. Boss-free “Selling” of a WOW! IdeaGet a Zany [WOW!] Idea/Shop it with a coupla good pals.Surface [using your network] a list of [operational] folks who might be interestedin playing.Call, visit and choose a coupla prospects.Engage the prospects [they must “own” “it”].Concoct a rough plan and a prototype schedule. Move forward [Ready. Fire! Aim.].Keep on recruitin’.Get the Test Customer to recruit some buddies for Round #2 tests [Meanwhile Customer #1 expands program]

  39. Get going with Round #2 prototypesStart conscious “buzz building” [Let “the word” of successful tests trickle out]Have the “line dudes” put on a demo for, say, a coupla “cool” regional bossesEtc.Etc.Have the growing Network of Converts initiate a Major Program ProposalEtc.Etc.

  40. Boss Advice: The “Poster Kids”/ “End Run”/“Skunks” StrategyChat up a cross-section of the Org.Develop a tentative list of Pioneers/“Skunks.”Hang with those Skunks, discover their “stuff I’ve long wanted to do”/Encourage them to “Do it!”Begin to showcase their developing results [with your public stamp of approval]. Dip deep[ish] and early - promote a Super Skunk into the [New] Establishment.Incorporate the Skunks’ work into your Vision Chatter/Welcome ALL aboard!

  41. VI. THE [REALLY] SOFT STUFF 2You must … Be In Love!

  42. Passion ReduxRule #1: You Gotta Love It!

  43. Message2000“The point is the passion!”Charles Handy

  44. “Create a Cause, not a ‘business.’ ”Gary Hamel, Fortune (06.00), on re-inventing a company (Exemplar #1: Charles Schwab)

  45. Brand Leadership!“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership isthe effective communication of a story.”Howard GardnerLeading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

  46. “Leadership is a performance.You have to be conscious of your behavior, because everybody else is.” Carly Fiorina

  47. Brand Leadership:ENTHUSIASM RULES!“I am a dispenser of enthusiasm.”/ Ben Zander

  48. Are You a …Viral Enthusiast?

  49. The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo

  50. Epitaph from Hell … Joe T. Jones 1942 - 2000HE WOULDA DONE SOME REALLY COOL STUFF BUT … HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM!

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