curiosity as a critical 21st century leadership practise
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Faced with the rate of change happening faster than our ability to respond to it, Curiosity is emerging as an increasingly important leadership competency in organisations. These are the slides from an interactive and participatory workshop where delegates learnt about * Speed as an ineffective response to information overload * What is required to create a curious state * How to develop curiosity in your people * How to do an attention audit and help curiosity to thrive as a lens for attentionTRANSCRIPT
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THE CASE FOR CURIOSITY AS A LEADERSHIP PRACTISE
Elaine Rumboll
University of Cape Town
Graduate School of Business
Cape Town, South Africa
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Common (yet ineffective tactic) to deal with information overload
Definition of curiosity and how to create a curious state
How we can apply this to our own leadershippractise
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The nervous system is incapable of processing more than 110 bytes of information per second
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The first thing we need for innovation is fascination with wonder, we are taught instead to decide.
Dawna Markova
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ATTENTION AUDIT
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CURIOSITY IS AN APPRECIATING ASSET
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Lack of curiosity is a breeding ground for stereotyping and discrimination, inflated confidence, ignorance that can actually lead to poor decision-making, dogmatism and rigidity of thought.
Todd Kashdan (2009)
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MENTAL MODEL
INCONGRUITY
REFERENT WITH MORE INFO THAN YOU POSSESS
CURIOSITY
GEORGE LOEWENSTEIN
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Developmental Robotics and Artificial Curiosity – Mechanism of Condensation
Jürgen Schmidhuber
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How to create a Curious State
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http://the-definition.deviantart.com/art/Eye-Story-17716419
KILL THE CRITIC IN YOUR HEAD
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PEER DRAWING
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Go slow to go fast
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Issey Miyake “ Colour Hunting” Spring/Summer CollectionParis, 2009
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Answers don’t change the world. Questions do.
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