A keynote address co-delivered with Dr Cheryl Doig at AISA (African International Schools Association) Leadership Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2012.

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5. Scan the environment- ‘what comes next, and what should we do about it?’

6. Collective Intelligence
Explains a groups performance on a wide variety of tasks
Collective intelligence is
not strongly correlated
with the average of
maximum individual
intelligence of group
members
Factors that were important:
– average social sensitivity (the ability to read and understand the
emotion of others) of group members,
– the quality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.
Ringleb, Rock, Conser - “NeuroLeadership in 2010”

7. • Apps Fancy a new job?
• MOOCs Digital life planner
• 3d printing
• Haptics
• Nanotechnology Online identity removal
• Arab spring
• BYOD
• Neuroleadership
• Virtual pop stars Lawyer specialising in virtual
• Crowdsourcing
property
• Hacking your education
• Flipped classrooms
• Online worlds Freelance Education Coordinator
• Augmented reality
• Learning analytics Synthetic sausage maker

9. Complexity,
Leadership systems thinking
An
for iterative
the future model…
Diversity eg Collaboration,
culture, technology,
generations, influence
beliefs
Mindfulness, balance, leading self

10. Self regulation

11. http://scoop.intel.com/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/

12. Interruptions
every
10.5 minutes
23 minutes to get
back to flow
http://www.blogherald.com/2012/09/24/social-
media-will-distract-you-at-work-infographic/

13. Contextual

14. • 90% of leading executives from 68 countries
named multicultural leadership as their top
management challenge
-International Labor Union

15. Filter Bubble
We need the internet
to connect us all
together. We need it
to introduce us to new
ideas and new people
and different
Cartoon by David Fletcher
perspectives and it is
©Think Beyond Ltd 2011
not going to do that if
it leaves us all isolated
in a web of one.
Eli Parisier
site:pk "girls’ education"
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

16. Adaptive Leadership
Heifetz et al 2009

17. We cannot solve problems with the same
thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein
Seeing connections instead of parts…

18. Adaptive Leadership
Characterised by both;
• participative processes ”Surfing the Edge of Chaos’”
• collaborate solution finding
Benefits:
• Engagement, ownership leading to…
…enthusiasm/energy and commitment
• Better solutions – innovation
The Pronoun Test “I” or “We”
“My” or “Our”
“We” or “They”
Daniel Pink – “A whole new mind”
“There's only one thing better than ownership – authorship!
Simon Breakspear , “Talent Magnets”
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19. Adaptive Leadership
• Live with disequilibrium
• Develop a culture where issues can be
raised openly
• All are responsible for the future
• Leadership capacity is developed
• Continuous improvement and reflection
Heifetz et al 2009

21. Crowdsourcing business
https://www.innocentive.com/ http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/

22. Over 360,000 tonnes of liquifaction shovelled
Over 75,000 volunteer hours

23. Hacking Your
Own Education
• Cloud computing
• Mobile apps
• Social reading
• Tablets computing
Read the 2012 Horizon Report

25. The London Olympics are being called the first
real social media Olympics.
Corporate social responsibility
Shared value concept
Sustainability in the workplace

26. Influence
amplification
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058319/Did-Harvard-economics-class-cause-financial-crisis-Students-
walk-lecture.html#ixzz1df24nW9K

27. The future is
already here
-it’s just unevenly
distributed
– William Gibson

28. Complexity,
Leadership systems thinking
An
for iterative
the future model…
Diversity eg Collaboration,
culture, technology,
generations, influence
beliefs
Mindfulness, balance, leading self

29. c.doig@thinkbeyond.co.nz
chris.jansen@canterbury.ac.nz
www.thinkbeyond.co.nz