Sunrise Spirits Inc – Get Smart – the Seminar
Get Smart, a Seminar for Everyone
Hello,
Here is a summary of the really cool seminars I offer, on what everyone needs to “Be Smart.” It’s customizable for everyone, from teenagers to CEO’s.
My guiding vision for the past 15 years or so has been:
For all organizations to be improving their relationship to People and the Planet.
Have this as part of their quarterly goals, right alongside their financial and quality goals. All organizations, be they for-profit or not-for-profit. From banks to churches.
It’s worked for me.
It’s helped me keep some semblance of sanity in a world filled with really bad stuff.
I’m a smart guy. In some areas, that is.
But most importantly, I know smart ideas when I come across them.
But even more important than that, I really enjoy simplifying them so that everyone can ‘get’ it. Some say I’m pretty good at it. You be the judge.
Seminar 1: Get Smart, an introduction: – What Everybody Needs to Know
I have synthesized ideas from lots of smart people I’ve come to know and/or
study over the years.
Many of them I interviewed on my talk radio show, back in 1998 – “Heart Works.”
Others I’ve met at conferences around the country.
These ideas are part of my DNA.
Of course, I add my 2 cents as well. “Value Added”, as they say in corporate-speak.
I am so brilliant, I’m able to give people a simple ‘hook’ into each of the ideas. In about 5 to 10 minutes.
Thus you don’t have to read the books. Unless you want to. Like in order to get more in-depth understanding. And thus be inspired to bring me back for a longer seminar.
Length is determined by the needs of the audience.
A half hour would be pushing it, but I can do it. The overview is perfect for a Lunch ‘n Learn or evening seminar.
Focus is always on the pragmatic side:
- How it can help you now; as a person, in your career. Or your organization
- And/or how it will help to build a better world, one where all organizations are doing less damage to people and the planet.
Like, who wants to build a crummier world, eh?
The audience can be anyone –
- Ø From junior high school students to college professors
- Ø From the least paid in an place to the most paid – CxO’s (senior executives) and such
Get Smart – Outline
- How to organize your ideas.
- Integrating skills from Information Technology, for non-technical people – from CEO’s to Help Desk staff.
- Using diagrams to organize abstract concepts.
- Clarifying the Problem Space vs Solution Space.
- Iterations and other Best Practices.
- Integrating skills from Information Technology, for non-technical people – from CEO’s to Help Desk staff.
- Based on 25 years consulting in IT for Fortune 500 companies, 5 years in social work, 40 years as a community activist, plus lots of other life experiences.
- “Leadership – the Inner Side of Greatness,” by Peter Koestenbaum.
- This is not your run-of-the-mill leadership book. I first read him in the late 1970’s as a psychology major, focused on Existential Humanistsim – “Is there an Answer to Death?”
- A leader is one who can contain chaos and confusion, with Courage, Vision, Reality and Ethics
- “The Great Game of Business,” by Jack Stack, CEO of
- Jack is a blue collar, Chicago guy, who developed his ideas working at International Harvester, Cicero, Illinois.
- Business is a game. Thus everybody has skin in the game. Everybody has to know how to keep score. And gets rewarded when the team wins.
- “Organizational management and the New Sciences,” by Margaret Wheatley
- Predicable-ness is at the core of classical Newtonian physics. The “old” science. It’s the mindset that our organizations are designed and operated on.
- The new sciences are things like Quantum Mechanics, Fractals and Chaos. Understanding and integrating the new sciences into our organizations is what this book is about.
- Generations -the History of America’s Future,” by Strauss and Howe
- One of only 2 books I recommend to Everyone
- Child Sexual Abuse – the basics:The Natural Step, a framework for improving an organizations relationship to people and the planet. Founded in1989 by scientist Karl-Henrik Robèrt
- Why? Because the odd are that someone in your professional sphere has been impacted by it.
- Why? Because there are corporate leaders who manipulate the vulnerabilities of abuse for their own gain.
- Based on the book “The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse,” by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis.
- “Natural Capitalism,” is making money without destroying people or the planetSystems Thinking is a process of understanding how things work in connection to the whole.
- Capitalism that values all Living Systems
- Developed by Paul Hawkin, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
- In nature there are eco-systems; the parts include air, water, plants and animals
- In Information Technology, there are software systems.
- The Natural Capitalism Club
- This is my creation, which I’ve been developing over the past decade.
- It’s a club for adults and kids, to learn how to make money without harming People or the Planet. And have fun.
- Based on the concept of Natural Capitalism – Capitalism that values all living systems.
