a private lesson on leadership, entre, and innovation

The Tipping Point Initiative

Sept 6, 2013 A point of view on what had happened

Lessons in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

1.  How does one change the status quo? 2.  Is he certain that the new status is better than the

present? 3.  How does an entrepreneur (believer of one) move

to become an innovator (believer of one with many followers who would buy his products)? [Let’s define an innovator as someone whose products or services have buyers, which differentiate from an inventor whose products or services do not]

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Case Challenges 1.  How do you ignite the fire of change and fan its

spread? 2.  What does a change champion need to do to

bring about a miracle? 3.  How do you bring 6 disparate groups together for

dialogue? 4.  How do you entice them to see a better

tomorrow? 5.  How do you determine success of a US$50,000

conference?


8 Steps to Ignite Change 5.  Appeal to their

nobleness 6.  Show them it has been

done before 7.  Challenge them 8.  Conclude by helping

them visualize this better future


1.  Create a burning platform

2.  Find a common ground

3.  Break the ground under their feet

4.  Show them a new way

Step 1: Create a Burning Platform


Source: Startup Genome, 2012


Where’s is Hong Kong?

Step 2: Find a common ground


Six Blind Men and An Elephant? Start-ups n Government n Academics n Youth n Industrialists n Policymakers


www.proprofs.com

Are we actually looking at the same elephant, but each with a different timeframe?


Definition of innovation Before Now

•  Technology •  Products •  Owned by R&D •  Hard, risky, nuisance •  A noun •  The thing itself

•  About Value •  Anything that can

create value •  Owned by everyone •  Hard, risky, fun •  A verb •  Essential to the values

of things

Source: Dr. Royce Yuen, ex-Asian Chairman of O&M


"ʺThe commercialization of creativity.”

Anonymous

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Step 3: Break the ground under their feet

By questioning their assumptions


Why Can’t We? •  Build on our world-class

efficiency, speed, and adaptability that is uniquely Hong Kong?

•  Be the cleanest city in the world?

•  Create new technologies not by ourselves but with others like Finland?

•  Become the definitive “Academy” for Greater China?

•  With aging population, comes modern old age homes?

•  Be the world’s firemen and rescue others from harm?


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Step 4: Show them a new way


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9:30 am An Innovation Framework

Prof. Gordon Redding,

Senior Fellow, INSEAD

Escaping the Mercantile Equilibrium Trap: Business

Organizations as Instruments of Societal Benevolent Domination in

China ?


10:00 am Common Sense and Practicality

Dr. Po Chi Wu, Adjunct Professor of Engineering and

Business, HKUST

The Nose Knows


Step 5: Appeal to their nobleness


Today’s Aims •  How can the bow ties talk to

the flip flops? •  How can we learn to listen

better? •  How can we learn to accept

our own mistakes and move on?

•  How can we remake Hong Kong?


Step 6: Show them it has been done before


12:40 pm Real Life Example of Innovation

Prof. Arthur Ellis, Provost, City University of Hong Kong Building a Foundation for Innovation in Hong Kong:

The CityU Discovery-enriched Curriculum


Step 7: Challenge them to work together


Challenge to Each Panel 1.  What is so innovative about this panel

discussion? 2.  What are the missing ingredients that would

make this innovation work for Hong Kong? What should be the new role of government, industry, and students?

3.  Why should you, the audience, the current industry, supplier, customers, and listeners want to be a part of this initiative? What is it in it for you?


Panel leaders shall summarize their discussions for the plenary

Step 7: Challenge them


Free Wi-‐‑fi City Recent Past

Present


•  Tel Aviv •  Jerusalem •  New York •  Mountain View •  Santa Monica •  London •  Minneapolis

•  Birmingham UK •  Singapore •  Paris •  Mysore India

Step 8: Conclude by helping them visualize a be\er future


The New Hong Kong?


8 Steps to Ignite Change 5.  Appeal to their

nobleness 6.  Show them it has been

done before 7.  Challenge them 8.  Conclude by helping

them visualize this better future


1.  Create a burning platform

2.  Find a common ground

3.  Break the ground under their feet

4.  Show them a new way

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