Keep note of these thoughts

1. Dr Mario Denton

2. Introduction
s It’s not what we know, it’s how we use
what we know that counts! “Applied
common sense”
s We all have within ourselves, reserves
of energy that we will never use, nor do
we even realise its existence
s Most new ideas do not depend on new
information, but on putting together old
information in a new way!

5. Standing still.........
s Standing still is the
fastest way of
moving backwards
in a rapidly changing
world
s Innovation is the
central issue in
economic prosperity
- Michael Porter

6. Failures of imagination
s Forecasters in 1948
estimated “only a
dozen or so very large
corporations will be able
to take advantage of the
computer”. IBM made
an early decision not to
market the computer
because it could never
prove profitable.

7. Some food for thought
s The ability to learn faster than the
competition is often the only sustainable
competitive advantage a company can
have. Arie de Geus.
s There is no such thing as a failed
experiment, only experiments with
unexpected outcomes. Buckminster
Fuller.

8. Benchmarking
Benchmarking is about improving
competitive position, and using
best practice to stimulate radical
innovation rather than just
seeking minor, incremental
improvements on historical
performance

9. Don’t keep a good
person down
s As long as you keep
a person down,
some part of you
has to be down
there to hold him
down, so it means
you cannot soar as
you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson.

10. A goal is a dream
taken seriously!
s Ifyou can dream it, you can do it!
s Curiosity has its own reasoning for
existing. Albert Einstein.
s You are the best until proven wrong

11. Every new idea is born
drowning
s A new idea is at its
most vulnerable
during the first
moments of life. In
any important
relationship, one
negative
comment
outweighs ten
positives.

13. Solving problems.....
s Problems cannot be solved by
thinking within the framework in
which the problems were created.
Albert Einstein
s A problem is a chance for you to do
your best. Duke Ellington

14. A ship in the harbour
s A ship in the
harbour is safe, but
that is not what
ships are built for.
William Shedd
s People cannot
discover new
oceans until they
have the courage to
lose sight of the
above

15. Risktaking
s The trouble is, if you don't risk
anything, you risk even more. Erica
Young
s The greatest waste of our natural
resources is the number of people
who never achieve their potential.

17. The ability to think in
opposites
s The ability to think in opposites
so that opposing ideas occur in
the mind simultaneously is an
important property for creativity

18. Yesterday’s successes
s“ Be careful of yesterday’s
successes, because success
taste so good it dulls the
appetite for risk. Alvin Toffler

19. A new set of eye glasses
s Instead of pouring knowledge into
people’s heads, we need to help them
grind a new set of eyeglasses so that
we can see the world in a new way.
J S. Brown

20. The northern pike
story
s An interesting experiment was performed
using a fish tank capable of being divided in
half by a clear glass partition
s A Northern Pike was put in one half of the
tank.

21. The northern pike story
(continued)
s A number of small fish, normally food for the
northern pike, were placed in the other half
s The Northern Pike could see the small fish
plainly and it repeatedly crashed its snout
against the clear glass partition in an attempt
to get at the small fish
s After a time the Northern Pike gave up,
having learned it was of no use
s The experimenter then removed the clear
glass partition

22. The northern pike story:
learning points
s The small fish continued to swim in one
half of the tank and the Northern Pike in
the other, making no attempt to cross
into the other half of the tank
s What the Northern Pike experienced in
the past dictated how it reacted in the
future

23. Obstacles
s Obstacles
always show
up when you
take your
eye off the
goal.

24. “ A Grizzly story”
s An American took his
Japanese friend for a
ride through the woods
s The buggy broke down
and they decided to
walk
s After some time they
were confronted by a
big grizzly bear
s The Japanese
immediately started
taking his takkies out of
his knapsack

25. The Grizzly story: part 2
s The American said: “Hey, that won’t
help - you can’t out-run a grizzly bear”
s To which the Japanese replied
“I don’t have to out-run the bear
- all I have to do is to out-run
you”

26. The meaning of the
story
No company, however well
established, can afford to
develop a sense of
complacency in the present,
highly competitive industrial
world.

27. Career stages
Growth
HIGH
Maintenance
PER- Establishment
FORM-
ANCE
Decline
Trial
Exploration Stagnation
NEEDS 20 25 30 35 45 50 60
AGE

28. Sources of complacency
The absence of
a major and
visible crisis
Human nature Low overall
with its capacity for performance
denial standards
Complacency
A lack of sufficient Too much happy
performance talk
feedback
“Kill-the- messenger-of -
bad- news” or low - confrontation
culture

29. Enthusiasm.....
s The real secret of success is enthusiasm
s Enthusiasm is the yeast that make your
hopes rise to the stars
s Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eye, the
grip in your hand, the irresistible surge of your
will and energy to execute your ideas
s Enthusiasts are fighters .... they have
fortitude and they have staying qualities
s Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress

32. The success formulae
P = F(M x A x E)
Where F = function
P = PERFORMANCE
M = MOTIVATION
A = ABILITY
E = ENVIRONMENT

33. Five kinds of
companies
s 1. Those that make things happening
s 2. Those that think they make things
happen
s 3. Those that watch things happen
s 4. Those that wonder what's happening
s 5. Those that don’t know anything is
happening

34. The future........
s The Future is a matter of
choice, not chance. You are
where you are because of
decisions you took - or didn’t
take - sometime in the past.
The shape of tomorrow
depends entirely on how
you act, right now

35. Ask questions.......
The ‘silly’ question is the
first intimation of some
totally new development.
Alfred North Whitehead