{"id":743,"date":"2016-01-22T05:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consulting.stylemixthemes.com\/demo\/?p=743"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T09:54:38","slug":"seven-weeks-working-pro-bono-with-a-national-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlfirst.com\/executiveeducation\/seven-weeks-working-pro-bono-with-a-national-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"743\" class=\"elementor elementor-743\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8418cd7 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"8418cd7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6aacbd3\" data-id=\"6aacbd3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b587aab elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"b587aab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_center has_subtitle\" ><h3 style=\"color: #FEFEFE;text-align: center\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PEOPLE<span class=\"subtitle\" style=\"color:#13E128\">Insight<\/span><\/h3><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-338163c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"338163c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c5bc932\" data-id=\"c5bc932\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a6f90d elementor-widget 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2016\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_by\">Posted by:\t\t\t\t<span>ExecutiveEdu@2020<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_cat\">Categories:\t\t\t\t<span>Business plans, Uncategorized<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<div class=\"comments_num\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/tlfirst.com\/executiveeducation\/seven-weeks-working-pro-bono-with-a-national-charity\/#respond\"><i class=\"fa fa-comment-o\"><\/i>No Comments <\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post_thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/tlfirst.com\/executiveeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TRANSFORMATION-THROUGH-PEOPLE.jpg\" class=\"attachment-consulting-image-1110x550-croped size-consulting-image-1110x550-croped wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tlfirst.com\/executiveeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TRANSFORMATION-THROUGH-PEOPLE.jpg 540w, https:\/\/tlfirst.com\/executiveeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/TRANSFORMATION-THROUGH-PEOPLE-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bffbe56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bffbe56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the dawn of a new decade, analysts, practitioners, and academicians have a found common ground in the need to deliver future economic stability and growth. Many have dusted and brought back the old clich\u00e9 of \u2018thinking out of the box\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What box?\u2019 One might ask; for if you think \u2018outside the box\u2019 your construct is relative to \u2018the box\u2019. As Einstein puts it, \u201cour observations are always shaped by the theory through which we see\u201d. What if there was no box?!<\/p>\n<p>Many have referred to events of the past year as largely unprecedented; the global economic landscape has changed to levels not previously foreseen, the balance of power has shifted, the political dynamics has been raised to new levels, and even the pattern of global and regional weather has changed! If the nature of the problem is unprecedented, surely our approach to the solution must be unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>Organisations often succumb to what has been referred to as \u2018active inertia\u2019 \u2013 they respond to disruptive changes in the environment by accelerating activities that worked in the past. Managers take actions in the present that lock their trajectories in the future based on their experiences of the past, and some \u2018newly found\u2019 creativeness that is \u2018out of the box.\u2019 In many of our international leadership events, we spend considerable time on reverse stress testing, exploring \u2018why visions fail\u2019, \u2018why good leaders become toxic\u2019 and \u2018why good companies go bad\u2019. After many mind mapping and brain storming attempts, people have often concluded by stating the \u2018unknown unknowns\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising the challenges involved with dealing with the unknowns, one could put in place a robust risk management framework with intelligent hard and soft data capture to provide strategic navigation into the future. Indeed, such frameworks can themselves become blinders, especially if the focus on critical issues and probabilities obscure peripheral vision into emerging threats and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Boards and Management now need to push further on enabling creativity, innovation and improvisation in such a way that front line managers are less driven by rules and frameworks, but by imagination. As a veteran of strategic performance and risk management, I find myself often biting my tongue when I encourage managers to be sufficiently brave and bold in stretching their imagination. After all, as JFK said, \u2018it is better to try and fail, than to fail to try\u2019. We cannot see what we are missing if we do not know what it is that we do not know.<\/p>\n<p>How far, however, should Boards encourage such imagination to stretch? Especially knowing that by sticking simply to what we can measure, we come to imagine a small and constrained world in which we are prisoners of a \u2018reality\u2019 that is in fact an edifice constructed around ourselves and environment. Certainly, a trajectory based on an analysis of the past is simply an extrapolation, and nothing more! Charles Sanders Peirce, in the late 19th Century pointed out that no new idea in the world was ever produced by inductive or deductive logic. To successfully develop a culture of innovation in both the private and public sectors, you need to allow for \u2018crazy\u2019 type imagination. I recently asked a group of executives and Board members at a leadership workshop to come up with an idea that is both bizarre and impossible. Time after time, they came back with suggestions that were simply an extension of the knowns. To successfully utilise that part of the brain that is suggested to produce creativity, we have to see Leadership as more of an art than a science.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e64769 elementor-widget elementor-widget-stm_post_comments\" data-id=\"4e64769\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"stm_post_comments.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"stm_post_comments consulting_elementor_post_comments\">\n            <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb811ed elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"cb811ed\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-edd90f3 third_bg_color elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"edd90f3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fabc838\" data-id=\"fabc838\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05dc522 elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_cta\" data-id=\"05dc522\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_cta.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"ce_cta ce_cta_a516798601dcdfa7ce99154103e0eb80 ce_text_left third_bg_color add_button_right btn_align_right btn_button_block_true btn_has_icon btn_has_icon_on_the_right\" id=\"\">\n\t<div class=\"ce_cta__content\">\n\t\t<div class=\"ce_cta__content__header\">\n\t\t\t<h2  class='ce_cta__content__title '>Looking for a First-Class Business Plan Consultant?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ce_cta__action\">\n\t\t<a\n\t\t\thref=\"#\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttarget=\"_self\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"button\n\t\t\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t<span>get a quote<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth through innovation\/creativity. 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