We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• How do I know what my gift is?
• What is the story that we are moving into?
  • Each world view has its own mythology
  • Moving from one world to the next through the narrative
• Myths for each of the value systems
• Surprises

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Passion
  • Doing what you love
  • Doing the way you love to do it – a good context
  • Need to do it where it is needed – finding the right place
  • "If you feel good at work, you are not doing your work" – the social myth to overcome
• "The Secret" fad
  • Envisioning is only half the story, you have to take action
  • "I love a good breakfast, but I don’t like to make it". Try lying in bed manifesting it.
• Attributes of the winners – people who have successively lived being on purpose
• Bigger than self

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Conscious consumption & investment
  • Let’s all agree to work less
• Cooperation
  • Punishing the non-punisher
• Manipulation of symbols
  • Any codification and shorthand is a gross overgeneralization
  • Breaking the power of symbols – going to process thinking
• Linear & Systemic Thinking
  • Majoring in minor things
• Decision making & decision systems
  • Cannot make a true transformation without entering the people’s map first
• Knowing your board of directors
  • Life is more complex than we would like it to be

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Value Systems & Power
• Architecture & Power
  • The tallest building indicates the prevailing power
• Motivation for Transition
  • It has to be painful enough where you are, and the pleasure of where you want to go must be high enough in order to motivate you to endure the pain of the transition
  • Learned helplessness – after some point, people give up
• Power of Narrative

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Religion – Fundamentalism
• Corporate and Military
• Media

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Economy
  • If we work less, we may have higher quality of life
  • From deadlines to lifelines
  • From maximizing profit to maximizing value
  • Spreading ideas
• Power
• Holy and Unholy Trinity: Economy, Religion, Politics

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Social Capital
  • Economic ladder
  • Social capital – doing business is a social process
  • Context and environment is important
• Mirror Neurons
  • Empathy – mixing rich and poor makes rich want to help, if only not to feel the poor’s pain
• Rapport, Brain and Autism
  • Rapport – maching & mirroring – it’s a tool, the difference in application
  • Autism – a disfunction of mirror neurons
  • Monkey moving the cursor
• Disconnect of empathy in our society
  • Manipulation is not always bad

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the previous episode (#93) of the series, or start with the first episode (#52) , if you haven’t heard it yet.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

• Choosing the change
  • At level 7, change becomes autogenic and conscious
• Learning to learn
• Solutions at one level are the problems of the next
  • Or, as Joseph Campbell put it, "Gods of one level are demons of the next"
• Progress and Regress
  • Transitions may happen backwards, to the lower levels
• Previous value systems are necessary for the higher ones to emerge

In the previous talk, we have explored the difference between being a catalyst and an enzyme of change. In this episode, we continue our discussion, and move it into the realm of personal stories, experiences, and learnings.

In this talk, we cover the following topics:

• Personal stories
  • Learning NLP
  • Relationships and jealousy
  • Changes in business
• Switching from catalyst to enzyme, and from enzyme to catalyst

Technocrati Tags: Change, Transformation, Catalyst, Enzyme, Structural Change, Deming

We’ve all heard the phrase – "being the catalyst of change or transformation." But have we really thought of the implications of this metaphor, and how often do we consider the alternatives?

• Change – the process of becoming different (Wikipedia)
• [Catalyst] is a substance that increases the rate of reaction without being consumed by the reaction (Wikipedia)
• Enzymes are biomolecules that catalyze chemical reactions. As with all catalysts, enzymes are not consumed by the reactions they catalyze, nor do they alter the equilibrium of these reactions. However, enzymes do differ from most other catalysts by being much more specific. (Wikipedia)
• Coenzymes are small organic molecules that transport chemical groups from one enzyme to another. […] Coenzymes are chemically changed as a consequence of enzyme action. (Wikipedia)

In this talk, we cover the following topics:

• Why studying change is so crucial?
  • Either you live in a rut and eventually die, or live a full life. And to live a full life, you better study change.
  • You are always changing – whether you want it or not. The question is only, do you want to take the reins of your transformation into
    your own hands, or not?
  • "Change is the only constant" – and Deming added "you don’t have to change. Survival is optional."
  • It’s in the moments of change fortunes are made and lost;
  • It’s in the moments of change you either survive or die;
  • It’s in leading these changes that great shifts happen.
  • It’s knowing the waves of change enables you to ride with the change, if not lead it
  • Like in surfing, if you calibrate it right, you ride the wave. But if you misjudge it, you go underwater.
• Kinds of change
  • Cyclical and Structural change
  • How do you know a priori what kind of change it is?
• Catalyst and Enzyme
  • When leading change, what primary behavior you are demonstrating?
  • Are you putting yourself on the line and changing with it, or simply observing the change on the outside?
  • As in language – are you a verb or a noun (nominalization)?
• Contexts for being enzyme or catalyst
  • When it’s appropriate to be one or the other; sequencing

Technocrati Tags: Change, Transformation, Catalyst, Enzyme, Structural Change, Deming