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A talk I gave at Colours of Water, a conference about the convergence of art, music and the new science of water.

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2640 Lyndale Ave S.Minneapolis Minnesota 55408

Learning to flowColours of Water

March 22, 2013

Lao Tzu

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The highest form of goodness is

like water.

Water knows how to benefit all

things without striving with

them.

Life depends upon business.But does business support life?

New science of water

Science that serves people

Connected to our everyday experience

Holistic

Interwoven into life

New science of water New models in business

Science that serves people

Connected to our everyday experience

Holistic

Interwoven into life

Businesses built around people

Work connected to meaning

Networked

A living construct

Is business learning how to flow?

AIDA ModelDeveloped by Elias St. Elmo

Lewis 1898

States changed behaviour is a

result of changed attitudes.

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Marlboro Man

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Cognitive dissonanceDeveloped by Leon Festinger 1957. We change our attitudes to fit our behaviour rather than the other way around.

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Albert Otto HirschmanEconomist who proposed that

cognitive dissonance be

employed as a strategy for

behaviour change

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FacebookDeveloped an application that

rewards the behaviour they

want to create.

Changed the way we think

about the world.

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Companies are defined by what they do, not by what they say.

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The actions of business are shaped by the tools we use. The tools are shaped by the philosophies we hold.

Brand PyramidDesigned to enable companies

to be consistent and say the

same thing everywhere.

Brand MoleculeDeveloped by John Grant 2006

Designed to enable companies

to do a variety of coherent

things

Business performance directly tied to job satisfactionOver the past five years the average annual return on the Workplace Fund was 10.81%. The S&P Index for the same period was just 3.97%

100 Best Companies to work forParnassus Workplace Fund

Job satisfaction not tied to income.Daniel Kahneman and Angus

Deaton of Princeton studied

effect of increasing income

upon well being.

Performance inversely correlated with bonusesIn 2008 Dan Ariely at Duke

University showed high bonuses

universally led to worse

performance on knowledge

work.

Job satisfaction most directly tied to work with meaning. Work with a purpose & autonomy.

Companies are increasingly defining why they are in business.And being held to that description by people inside the company and outside.

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Zeus Jones

Traditional Management Project Lead

Permanent

Top down

For past performance

Authority

Reward

Temporary

Bottom up

For current need

Responsibility

Training

It’s not just internally that traditional structures are dissolving.

Customer satisfaction central to marketing efficiencyAll forms of advertising trusted

by less than 50% of people

This is on top of the fact that

99.99% of advertising fails to

reach its intended audience.

Blurring roles of customersNot merely source of income

but can also help to generate

new business.

(Yes, yet another triangle)

OKCupidOnline dating site that uses

member data to improve

success rate of its members.

Creates reports on dating that

act as marketing

Traditional attitudes towards competitors and competition are also changing.

GreenXchangeOpen source repository to share and license sustainable processes and IP.

Companies coming together around higher purpose and collaborating around a platform.

Traditional markets Multi-sided markets

Transaction-oriented

Winner take all

Linear scaled

Individualistic

High control

Relationship-oriented

Value ecosystems

Network-effect

Cooperative

Lower cost

Modern BusinessDeveloped by Zeus Jones 2009

Designed to connect employees

to the mission of the company

Designed to remove the barriers

between customers and

employees

Edward de Bono The job always changes you; you never change the job.

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Cities scale sublinearlyCities grow sub-linearly and

endure because they are

networks

Companies grow super-linearly

and die because they are not.

If profit is bound to work with meaning and companies are bound to customers and each other...

Is business learning to flow and can it, one day, support the lives that depend upon it?

2640 Lyndale Ave S.Minneapolis Minnesota 55408

Thank youColours of Water

March 22, 2013

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