The Human Potential of Choice

The Human Potential of Choice
How values frame our choices

and how choices shape our future
not a presentation
an interactive experience experiment about choices
Dr. Colby Stuart TransformationFest 13 October 2011 Haarlem, The Netherlands
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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Premise of the
TransformationFest 2011
Inspiration
focus on new thinking about the role innovation and creativity play in
transforming business
Networking
opportunities to work together with attendees from other companies
and cultures to apply the day's thinking to real-life business problems
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What is Human Potential?
Scientically, potential is
a physical quantity, capable of measurement at every point in a ow
system, whose properties always ow from regions where the
quantity has higher values of those in which it has lower, regardless
of the direction in space (Hubbert 1940)
Humanised, it is
an inherent capacity for coming into authentic being so we can
experience an exceptional shift in our quality of life - lled with
happiness, creativity, and fullment
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The key to human potential transforming a mindset
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What is your ideal role in life?
What role would make you..
happy, fulll your dreams and sustain you?
What is the role you really want to play?
not the the role that you have played to full the expectations of
others
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What is the role of values in
human potential?
Values are what we stand for and believe at the very core of our human
selves
core human values are part of our RNA and get expressed through our
behaviour and choices
Core human values exemplify who we are as individuals and frame our
perspectives (the what) and shape our dispositions (the how)
each person sees the world through their own lens and from their own
position
each person looks at the same situation and views it differently from the
others
There are many dependencies
context and expectations also play a role in our capacity to reach toward
our potential
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What is the role of human
potential in groups?
Give people something they cannot nd anywhere else
the chance to become exactly who they believe they can become and to
contribute in a unique way which demonstrates that value to the group
A piece of a greater whole
when people begin to do this, they often nd themselves directing their
actions within society toward assisting others to reach their potential
Enhanced by social media
we see coaching skills developing through dialogue and discussion
democratisation of old models of previously accepted behaviour
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What is the role of values in
framing our choices?
Values establish a mental mindset
values frame what we have the capacity to see or believe
values create meaning
Values establish an emotional mindset
values play themselves out in different contexts that affect our moods and
shift our dispositions
Values dene our capacity to engage
if we believe in something, we engage naturally
if we do not believe in something, we continually struggle with how to
engage with it
this is where choices become critical
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How will your values frame
your choices?
We all have to make critical choices within a deadline.
One way to test your true core values is to put yourself in a critical
situation. Here is an exercise:
You have 10 minutes before the spaceship leaves. You have no choice but
to get on it. You will never return.
Who do you say goodbye to?
Who do you take with you?
What do you take with you?
There is a space limitation:
You may only take 1 person plus whatever you can carry and hold on
your lap.
Who is there to greet you when you arrive?
What will you do on your rst day?
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What choices are shaping our
future?
mindset - inuenced by traditional media
new signals from social technologies - challenging us to choose between
role as consumer and role as citizen
waves of inuence from convergence of social media and the business of
networking - creating innovative opportunities
human desire to make a difference - now technologically enabled for
collective engagement and social innovation
web - democratising and transforming politics, enterprise,
communication, and cultural hierarchies
transformational, evolutionary leadership practices - emerging
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What are the issues with
making choices?
limited perspectives - 360 insight needed
clarication of role, purpose and value
inuence of perceptions, assumptions, expectations, concessions and
accommodations
assessment of risk and potential
pressure and capacity
knowing which approach will deliver wise outcome
implications for the future
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What are your issues with
making choices?
Are you clear about the role you play in the choice - or - the role that the
choice plays in the situation?
Do you understand the purpose you serve in the situation?
Are you clear about the purpose the choice serves in the situation?
Are you adding value to the situation with your choice or taking value
away from the situation?
Does the situation create value for you?
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What have been your most
difcult choices?
Why?
What kind of choice was it?
functional
emotional
philosophical
How did you evaluate its outcome?
What progressive insight did you learn from it?
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One choice
never travels alone
lets watch a 9 minute video that really tells the story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DtefkJsw8&feature=related
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Where is the 360 view?
Can we crowdsource our collective intelligence?
Can we use this collective wisdom to identify our choices?
Can we map the issues and consequences of those choices to make
them plain and clear to us?
Do we vision how those choices impact our future?
What is the impact of our collective human potential when we make
collective choices?
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A business with a future is now more important
than one with just a past.
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How will these mindsets
inuence future growth?
Future = vision thinking
choice: building innovation practices into business models
Past = solution based re-engineering
choice: trying to plug innovation cells into business models that reject
them
Choice:
How to evolve existing business models incrementally into an innovative
system of potential?
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What are your hopes for the
future?
Make a list of your hopes for the future
choose a personal one
choose a business one
choose one for society or the world
Choice:
How can you use these hopes to evolve how you engage in your existing
roles?

How will this draw out potential opportunities in each of these contexts?
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What are your fears for the
future?
Make a list of your fears for the future
choose a personal one, a business one, and one for society or the world
Choice:
How can you use these fears to evolve how you manage risk as you
build potential opportunities?
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Computational
environments
exponentially
expanding
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shiftin
Re-shaping Long-term
effect
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Worth
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valuestream
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everything
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Connectivity
Communication
Exchange
Culture
ValueCreation
Democratisation
ofindustries
andcultures
Internetaccess
Processing
Storage
Bandwidth
What is shaping growth dynamics? shaping growth 1950 - 2050
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What is the evidence
transforming our perception
of worth?
in society - human values at heart of choices
in the economy - relationships driving enterprise
in technology - exponential growth
access, processing, bandwidth, storage
in culture - democratisation of countries, industries and nancial worlds,
using global communication platforms, is transforming how people
make choices and go about life
in worth - people are no longer accepting their limited participation or
potential
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How can we transform our
engagement with value
creation and worth?
Choice:
Can we use a different value chain to evolve what we consider currency
of exchange and worth?
Human capital = personal development, human potential
Social capital = relationship development and networks of relationships,
your CRM database
Creative capital = information, knowledge, innovation, ideas, concepts,
knowledge networks, and networks of meaning
Financial capital = material development, money, physical assets
Where is your potential as you re-evaluate your worth on this scale?
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What indicators are
transforming the potential of
business models?
globalisation - diversity and common cause
access - democratisation
connectivity - communication enhancement
participation - social innovation
transparency - accountability
choice - decision-making
worth - multi-level value streams
culture creation - power redistribution
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Evolutionary Timeline transitions 1950 - 2050
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What are the paradigm shifts
in organisational potential?
visions of future possibility - not solutions for past problems
transition from control model to share model
democratisation of organisations, industries and cultures creates
distributed and open source access to technology, people and
knowledge
transition from consumer/purchase model to citizen/contribution model
transition from an end-transaction model to a service model with multi-
value transactions at a every service delivery point based on feedback
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We are no longer managing business units,
we are participating in communities.
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What are the global platforms
framing the future of work?
reputation
scalable organising systems
communities of practice
principles, practices and standards
deliberated decision-making
inter-cultural, inter-disciplinary
integrated communications
open source
transparent accountability
replication, cloning and robotics
permissions and access
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What is evolutionary
leadership?
leadership evolved through citizenship
evolutionary, transformational, inspirational
social and organisational innovation
developing potential of people and ideas
sustainable, systemic growth
worth re-dened on 4 value levels:
human capital
social capital
creative capital
material capital
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We need to make choices as citizens,
not in isolation as consumers.
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Whats really needed from
leadership to reach the full
potential of organisations?
visionary, evolutionary leadership
learning organisations
creating an innovation culture
imagination
transforming the mindset
adaptation to technology and continual change
creativity
a way to validate identity and reputation
meaningful communication
meaningful contexts
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This requires new focus
technology requires mathematical minds
innovation requires creative and strategic minds
leadership requires vision
networked organisations require the ability to think in unied service
systems
educational systems require talent and resources to prepare students for
the future
individuals require coaching to become more aware of their human
potential and whole value
people desire to believe they are making a difference in meaningful
contexts
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What new skill sets will help
transform organisations for
future value?
managing mediated environments
strategic service system thinking
relationship management
concept development
identifying organising principles
pattern recognition
mathematic formulas and algorithms
preferences and permissions
value creation metrics
proling and positioning
constructing unifying frameworks
scenario planning and model building
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What does this mean for
wealth, worth and the
economy?
new denitions of wealth and worth
how to manage personal, the collective and our commons - natural
resources
how to redene the economy in context of future scenarios invested with
human potential
What is the value of human contribution?
What happens if currency drastically changes?
What puts relationships at risk?
What is risk management in context of future human potential scenarios?
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Future choice.
Human Potential.
What if...
...collective intelligence over time provides us with ability to make choices
with tools to collect, manage, spend and grow wealth in new ways?
...nano-bots manage wealth systems beyond the scope of the human
mind?
...wealth systems manage global mass wealth to manage global
economies and end poverty and war without emotion but with sense?
...the health, education and welfare of a child became a core
sustainability strategy at the heart of every government on the world?
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What are the issues and
implications of future
potential?
how to identify scenarios for the future - in the context of your work, your
people, your clients and their contexts
how to identify the parameters that dene the future space - where you
can easily engage and create value for yourself and others
how to identify who we are, our core human values, our consciousness
how to make choices in the context of enhanced technology
how to identify the responsibilities of our role as citizens - and how to
contribute to the wellness of our communities and our economy
how to engage in lifelong learning - gaining progressive insight
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If we want to shape a different
future, then we need to dene
choices that will frame that
future.
What are the leading questions to open new dialogue with leaders about
creating value through the growth of human potential in new ways?
What are the simple practices we could integrate into leadership styles to
bring innovation practices into the daily routine to incrementally evolve a
business model?
How do we coach at a strategic yet conversational level?
We ask.
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Human Potential starts with
one simple step.
Believe you are worth
something.
We are the ones weve been waiting for
Do something today that your future self will thank you for
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Colbys personal perspective on
the future of work
extremely rapid, exponential technological growth
silicon-based intelligence modeling actual brain cells @ speeds beyond
human comprehension
coding and life in circuitry
core human values embedded in DNA driving choice
a global economy networked in productive alignment with the health,
education and welfare of the population as a whole
every person has a unique and dened worth
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Recommended reading
Closing the Innovation Gap by Judy Estrin
Coaching for Performance: Growing Human Potential and Purpose by John
Whitmore
Engage! by Brian Solis
The Future of Work by Thomas Malone
Presence by Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Betty Sue Flowers
The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World by the US National Intelligence Council
(NIC)
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st
Century by Henry Jenkins
The Global Technology Revolution 2020, In-Depth Analyses Bio/Nano/Materials/
Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and
Social Implications by the US National Intelligence Council (NIC)
The Quick Start Guide to Making Choices by Colby Stuart and Sierd Loman
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Who is Colby Stuart and what
is she doing?
Dr. Colby Stuart
Quantum Brands BV
Kids 2020 Foundation
Concept developer; executive creative director;
serial entrepreneur; geeky academically-
grounded scientist
Loves adventure of discovery
and voracious, persistent learning
Likes to stay ahead of the game - moving
forward - likes to grow things
Loves start-ups, inspiring innovation, growing
value, & transforming old companies

Cooperative, collaborative, creative,
constructive, systematic
Talent for wiring up the brand technologically,
organisationally, nancially, visually
Basic practices into best practices, stimulating
to go beyond best practices
Coming Soon: The Go-Choose platform
Author with Sierd Loman of The Quick Start
Guide to Making Choices - 1st in a series
about choices
Contributing global citizen of many
communities with many choices seeking value
in life
Where you can nd me:
colbymedia@gmail.com
www.twitter.com/quantumbrands
www.colbys.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/colbystuart
www.squidoo.com/ColbyStuart
www.squidoo.com/BrandMe
www.squidoo.com/InnovationPractices
www.kids2020foundation.org
www.quantumbrands.net
speech on Human Potential http://ow.ly/Obqp
European Futurists Conference, Luzern,
October 2009
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