3 Things That Are Shaping Me

Highlights from the interweb that stopped me in my tracks this week.

Curatorial vibes this week as we head towards a long weekend.

I have a longer piece in development on “train-the-trainer” this spring that will highlight what I think are some of the timeless skills and capabilities of the trainer/facilitator (and even consultant at times) needed in the “leading experiences and engagements” space.

So stay tuned for that if it’s of interest.

But this week. Its highlights from Clay Parker Jones, FLUX Collective and David Ogilvy & co via David Senra at Founders.

Where it’s….‘keeping things simple’, ‘experience instead of learning’ and inspiration from a pretty incredible ‘call to action’.

Happy Easter.

Jamie

Keep It Simple

Not saying that getting to “short & simple” is always easy, but more often than not, that’s the work to be done!

This from Clay Parker Jones.

"Short memorable statements of priority that the team can actually use."

@clayparkerjonesPrioritization isn't a tool problem. Or an individual performance problem. It's a strategy problem, and not one that you can fix with a better slide deck. It's about good diagnosis, a clear guiding policy, and truly connected actions... *made memorable* and *made practical.* Here's one simple, sticky way to actually fix this. Give it a shot! #management #prioritization #productivity #strategy #powerpoint

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Experience Stacking

This from the team over at FLUX Collective.

“The way, especially in Western society, we’ve been taught this concept of learning is that it’s the acquisition of knowledge.

But it’s not.

It’s the acquisition of experience and making sense of that experience to really re-form or add to the mental models that drive our beliefs about the world.”

Aka. Keep living the hero’s journey.

🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 136

Calls To Action

I would like to have been exposed to something like this earlier in my career. Imagine hearing this at a company town hall or Monday morning stand-up?

Let’s go!!

You open your eyes wide and shut them again to see.

You do not assume, you look.

And you look, and you look, and you look.

And you look, and you look, and you look.

You look, you look, you look and your look.

You look at the clouds, you look in the closet, you look at the ceiling. You look in libraries, you look in magazines. You look at old advertising magazines.

You look at the bible, you look in cinemas, you look in art galleries.

You look at people, you look at the edge of your desk, you look in the mirror.

You look at your dreams, you look for patterns.

You look for the tiniest similarities.

You look for microscopic differences.

You look under every stone.

You look to heaven.

You look for bloody anything.

After all, discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

You’re not proud, you beg. You borrow, you steal.

You build on other people’s ideas.

Someone was once asked “where do you get your ideas from?”

He replied, “I don’t. They get me!”

And you never given in. Never give in.

Never give in.

Never, never, never.

God is with those that persevere.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Before them, obstacles vanish into thin air and mountains crumble in to atoms.

Dogged determination is often the only train that separates a moderately creative person from a highly creative person.

That’s because great work is never done by temperamental geniuses.

But by obstinate donkey men.

There’s so such thing as a quantum leap.

There’s only dogged persistence and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Wow.
Thank you Founders for another episode on the world of David Ogilvy.

Back again next week.

Keep well,
Jamie