#56 Positive Deviance with Marshall Thurber, part 3

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”

Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,

World-renowned scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In today’s episode, we touch upon the following topics:

• Constructing the games
  • Starting with a theory
  • Game has to have a foreshadowing, a great theory, integrity, and come through fast
  • The Accounting Game
  • How to use the same principles to teach concepts to little kids?
• Positive Deviant Network – comparing to NLP modeling.
  • “Empowergy” – Marshall’s company
  • 99% is under the bell curve; progress is made by people outside the bell curve. Systematizing what Positive Deviants do.
• Emergence in PDN
  • Cooperation, but no control. Connections are weak ties.

[techtags: Marshall Thurber, Buckminster Fuller, Convergence, Abundance, Novelty, Risk, Sharing, Business, Dynamic Value, DyVal, Positive Deviant, Positive Deviant Network, PDN]

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal)

#55 Positive Deviance with Marshall Thurber, part 2

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”

Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,

World-renowned scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In today’s episode, we touch upon the following topics:

• Pattern recognition
  • Structural vs. cyclical change
  • No high-tech without high touch
  • “Twoness”
• Openness to novelty
  • How to be open?
  • Story about Bucky Fuller – God makes no mistakes
  • The broken game (archistruction)
• Games – bringing the experience and fun into the training
  • Risk vs. Risky – the Land of Abundance game, making the point. The first 15%
  • Amount of waste – 40% of waste in US business

[techtags: Marshall Thurber, Buckminster Fuller, Convergence, Abundance, Novelty, Risk, Sharing, Business, Dynamic Value, DyVal]

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal)

#54 Positive Deviance with Marshall Thurber, part 1

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”

Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,

World-renowned scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In today’s episode, we touch upon the following topics:

• Biggest picture – the Universe (looking for patterns)
  • No straight lines in the Universe; either converging or diverging
  • Convergence on Earth – because of computers and the Internet
  • Network yields to the power, but ultimately gets rid of it
• Business needs to be thinking in terms of convergence
  • Profit – filter of information
  • Primary scarcities – time and attention
  • Abundance – US is leading it
  • Converging, sharing, being part of a bigger pie, growing exponentially.
  • Information is going to be free. Sharing is having more – breaking from the paradigm of scarcity.
• Dynamic Value
  • Value = Quality / Price
  • Pet rock – fad, because there was no opportunity cascade
  • Create value that people are willing to exchange for money; more valuable than the money they have.
  • Value will be more intangible.
  • Technology and education

[techtags: Marshall Thurber, Buckminster Fuller, Convergence, Abundance, Sharing, Business, Dynamic Value, DyVal]

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal)

#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]

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?
  • 8-min video with Hernando
  • Showing results – Peru: getting a marriage license
• Diagnostics – finding the critical points
• Story – sardine factory

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

#49 Transforming Business and Life with David Neenan, part 1

David Neenan is 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:

• Changing Schools
  • Most beloved and hated man in town
  • Dealing with the School District – introducing superlearning into schools
• Observing the Observer
  • Handling opposition – Separate the observer from what is being observed
  • Observe the observer you are – learn from it
• Solving business problems – it’s about changing your life
• Confucius story
  • Always expect the unexpected
• Learning organization
  • vs. fighting or sleeping organizations
• Discover your magnifiscence in a breakdown
• Existentialism
  • I’m born free, make choices from my freedom
  • Responsibility – accountable for my decisions
  • Anxiety – the elixir of life
  • Evil
  • Death
• Taking responsibility
  • Patterns – what stops people, and what helps them to break through
  • If you have a problem, your options:
    • You can change yourself
    • You can change the system
    • You can get out
    • You can choose to suffer (99% of unconscious choice)
  • If you think your leader sucks, look in the mirror
  • Setting the right expectations
  • Biggest mistake in starting a company – thinking that everyone is like me
• Hiring is a crap shoot

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