Sunday, September 28, 2008

#53 Swimming with Dolphins with Paul Kordis, part 2

We are continuing our conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. 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:

  • Spheres of human influence
    • Individual behavior
    • Social & organizational
    • Political & Economic
    • Spiritual / philosophical / ethical
    • Political has built a wall from spiritual, so it cannot influence other spheres. Ideally, our decisions have to be based on the common ethics, which now becomes hard. Example: US foreign policy.
  • Spirituality is simple and practical
    • Leadership and organizational development
    • Know where you are, where you’re going, and how do you get there
    • US founding documents – we just forgot to follow the map
  • Natural generosity and good will
    • We’ve unlearned basic values
    • We need to expand our sphere of perception. Need to know the problem first.
    • Our brains are preoccupied with commercials and other noise
    • Expand our view of time. Learn history.
    • Expand our sphere of influence.
    • Expanding one’s perception without expanding one’s sphere of influence quickly follows by depression
  • Purpose and passion
    • Who do I want to become?
    • What are my core competencies?
    • Combining the two together, what opportunities present themselves for me to move forward?
    • Think future (or historically), act now. The axis of expanding perception runs both ways.
  • Globalization and localization
  • Understanding ourselves
    • Movie: Lars and the Real Girl
    • Transforming oneself while transforming something outside
    • Schizophrenia as a heroic journey
  • Concepts across disciplines
    • If you study any discipline deep enough, you come to the same conclusions
    • We adapt to systemic views

[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Social Norm Marketing, Syntropy, Spheres of Human Influence, Generosity, Purpose, Passion, Globalization, Localization, NLP]

Sunday, September 21, 2008

#52 Swimming with Dolphins with Paul Kordis, part 1

Today we are going to introduce you to Dr. Paul Kordis. 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:

  • Spreading genes, memes, and phemes
    • Older and younger generations have been cut apart
  • On existence of evil in the world
    • Default mode is entropy; it requires effort to go on syntropic way
  • NLP
    • Looking for an edge over others
    • Direction of NLP: progression AND regression (standardization, certification)
    • Started out as modeling others. Presupposition – “I’m not good enough”.
    • Our approach – start out from my (individual) own uniqueness
  • Social Norm Marketing
    • Book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” by Richard H. Thaler (Author), Cass R. Sunstein
    • Small changes – healthy food closer to the entrance of the cafeteria, organ donors by default (unless opted out), publish your neighbors’ energy use in the bill. “Social norms marketing”.
    • Binge drinking reduction through social norm marketing (how much do you drink & how much do you think others drink)
    • False social norm marketing – providing distractions to people, making them think their opinion is in minority, and voicing it is dangerous. Example: gay rights and abortions in religious rights. People are making decisions out of fear.
  • The “Little Bang” – Life.
    • Universe is entropic, but life is syntropic. See yodolphin.com for an article.
    • 3 axis: Entropy-Syntropy, Love-Fear (life-death), Isolation-Connectivity
    • The US in the last 40 years has been moving to entropy/fear/isolation. Not a good sign.
    • How one handles novelty determines other dimensions

[techtags: Paul Kordis, Dolphins, Strategy of The Dolphin, Code of the monarch, Social Norm Marketing, Little Bang, Syntropy, NLP]

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Martin Seligman: What positive psychology can help you become

Science, and psychology in particular, are catching up to the ideas of happiness, meaning, state of flow, and pleasure in life, in very specific and measurable ways:

www.authentichappiness.org

[techtags: Martin Seligman, TED, Happiness, Meaning, Positive Psychology, Flow, Pleasure]

New Website Design

Today we are proud to announce the “radical change” of our own face – the design of our main website, www.radicalchangegroup.com.

Besides the cleaner and better look, the most important feature of this design is the organization of all the published info (podcasts and blog entries) by various criteria (categories, participants, and series).

As we are celebrating our first anniversary of weekly podcast releases, we feel it is prime time to organize the amount of information we have, so you – our visitors, have an easier time finding what you really need. Mind you – when the organizers have trouble sifting through their own material, it is indeed prime time for a radical change 🙂

Happy Transformations,

The Radical Change Group, International.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

#51 Transforming Business and Life with David Neenan, part 3

We are continuing our conversation with David Neenan – the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative “people” approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as “Evergreen” and “No Excuses: be the hero of your own life”. He has produced his “Business & You” and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Archistruction
    • Why only building buildings?
    • Casper – lost $670K while having $93K
  • It’s the mutants that make it
    • The learners will inherit the Earth (Marshall & taking the doors out)
  • How do you transcend the parts and include the whole
    • Transition to system 7
  • Family – applying same principles
    • The Nurture Assumption (book) – kids are more influenced by teenage peers, not by their parents
  • Finding a partner for life

[techtags: David Neenan, Archistruction, Business, Existentialism]

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Hernando de Soto - Presentation at CSU

Presentation given at CSU College of Business Sept. 24, 2006.

The actual Hernando’s presentation starts at 21 min into the video.

Hernando de Soto - Capitalism at Crossroads

“Capitalism can be the engine by which the poor, set free in an open marketplace, can raise themselves from poverty. We must give them the tools. We ignore them at our peril.” (Hernando de Soto)

[techtags: Hernando de Soto, David Neenan, Capitalism, Economics]

#50 Transforming Business and Life with David Neenan, part 2

We are continuing our conversation with David Neenan – the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative “people” approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as “Evergreen” and “No Excuses: be the hero of your own life”. He has produced his “Business & You” and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Reinventing oneself – making mistakes at a higher level
  • Dynamic capitalism – Hernando DeSoto
    1. LLC
    2. Private property rights
    3. Open banking system
    4. Rule of law
  • ILD – Institute of Liberty and Democracy
  • Readiness factor – mapping out countries and their transitions
    • Readiness for change
    • What kind of change
  • Choosing opportunities to serve – how to choose the most effective ones?
  • Diagnostics – finding the critical points
  • Story – sardine factory


[techtags: David Neenan, Archistruction, Business, Existentialism]

Friday, September 5, 2008

Interesting Proverbs, things to think about

Ancient Chinese Proverbs
# The swiftest horse can’t overtake a word once spoken*
# Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes
# A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles*

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

RISK

RISK

Author unknown

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out to others is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.