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Wealth, In n ovation & Diversity: Putting Our Differences to Wo rk in the 21st Ce n t u ry is the result of more thaneight years of re s e a rch, almost a year of filming across the world, and the cre a t i ve collaboration of a great team.

I gave my first speech on Wealth, Innovation & Diversity in 1996 to 250 leaders from around the world in Istanbul, Turkey. I had been invited to address this group by its chairman, Tor Dahl. He gave me a simplerequest: You may speak about anything you wish, he said, but remember that whatever you say, your audience will act on it, and your ideas will be carried around the world.

The presentation was very well received. And that is when I realized I had to turn the idea into a film. Inearly 1998, I received a phone call from Paul Hopkins, a film maker from Seattle. After talking to him, Iinvited him to my home in Florida to have an extended conversation. I liked his film work, I liked his attitude, I liked his intelligence and I liked his integrity. You can see all of that in this program. He showed me a whole new quality in film making. This film is, I hope, the beginning of a long and fruitful relation-ship. He was a delight to work with. Thank you, Paul.

I began writing the script and when I had a pretty solid first draft, I called Debbe Kennedy, a long time colleague, who had created the outstanding discussion guide for my film, The Power of Vi s i o n . I asked her if she would author the discussion guide for this effort. Debbe laughed when I told her what I was working on.She laughed because she was in the midst of writing her own book series on diversity entitled DiversityBreakthrough!® This series is a wonderful, in-depth examination of diversity and is filled with excellent, specificactivities for developing the leverage of dive r s i t y. I invite you to examine her books and tools on her website atw w w. d i ve r s i t y b re a k t h ro u g h . c o m for ideas and activities that extend far beyond this guide.

It was a perfect fit so she signed on to help. The result of her work is the most effective discussion guide I have ever had for any of my films. You can see her deep knowledge of the subject, her honor of its importanceand her profound craft of getting people to explore important issues in thoughtful and meaningful ways.Thank you, Debbe.

I have just one more person to thank: you who are about to utilize this cre a t i ve package. I believe the messageof this film—that wealth is created by innovation and innovation is the result of ongoing diversity—is a key-stone message for the 21st Century.

This message gives us a pathway to make the world better for eve ryone without having to do harm to othersalong the way. This message is not based on just “good feelings” or ambitious hopes. It is based on data andresearch and results from across many disciplines.

But it will take leaders to implement it. And by using this video package, you put yourself in a leadership position whether you like it or not. Remember, “a leader is someone you choose to follow to a place youwould not go by yourself.” This place in the 21st Century is rich with much more than money. It is rich isvariety; it is rich in possibility; it is rich in opportunity; it is rich in fairness; it is rich in heart. But it is achallenging climb that will require much effort. We all must do our best to get there.

Thank you for your courage and your willingness to reach. I look forward to seeing you up the pathway,around the turn, where “a thousand different flowers bloom.”

I bid all of you a peaceful and prosperous future,

—GROUP COMMITMENTS

Knowledge CacheViewing JournalThe StoriesJoel Barker’s Key MessagesWhat Do We Value?—GROUP WORK

Knowledge Cache—Sameness and Differences

Knowledge CacheViewing JournalThe StoriesJoel Barker’s Key MessagesPoints of View—GROUP WORK

Knowledge Cache—Points of View Debrief

Knowledge CacheViewing JournalThe StoriesJoel Barker’s Key MessagesMaking Our Own Connection—GROUP WORK

Making Our Own Connection—Actions and Commitments

About Debbe Kennedy—Author, WID Workbook

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Joel Barker is an independent scholar and futurist. Because he was the first person to popularizethe concept of paradigm shifts, he is known around the world as the “Paradigm Man.”

He began his work in 1975 and pioneered the concept of paradigm shifts to explain profoundchange and the importance of vision to drive change within organizations. His book, Future Edge,published in 1992, was listed as one of the most influential business books of that year by the prestigious Library Journal.

Most of us know Joel Barker from his extraordinary videos on the future. They have been translatedinto 14 languages and have been the #1 international best sellers for almost a decade.

Two of his newest videos, “Joel Barker’s Leadershift: Five Lessons for Leaders in the 21st Century,”and “Tactics of Innovation: How to Make It Easier for People to Accept New Ideas,” are now on thebest sellers lists, as well.

Joel Barker has worked with organizations, both for profit and not for profit, all over the world as well as with nations, including Singapore, Venezuela, Canada and Peru.

His honors include an honorary Doctorate in Visionary Leadership from St. Mary’s University inMinnesota in 1999; the Excellence in Education Award given to him by the InternationalEducation Association, Pi Lambda Theta, in 1993; the Doris Carpenter Education Award in 1997,from the City of Chattanooga for his part in supporting educational innovation.

Formerly director of the Futures Studies Department of the Science Museum of Minnesota from1974 to 1978. He has spoken to more than one million people around the world.

To learn more visit…www.joelbarker.com

Wealth, In n ovation & Diversity takes you on a journey around the world to understand a fundamentaltruth: Without diversity, there can be no innovation. Without innovation, there can be no newwealth. Therefore, diversity is the key to creating wealth for all.

Hosted by best-selling author and futurist, Joel Barker, Wealth, Innovation & Diversity contends thatyour organization will experience long-lasting success only when you reap the benefits of diversityby collaborating with individuals and enterprises that are different than yourself. Lessons are taughtagainst such backdrops as Machu Picchu’s ruins, a farm in Ireland, skyscrapers in Singapore and theforests, mountains and plains of America. Drawing from history, science and the innovations oforganizations and nations, Ba rker introduces a new premise for thinking and understanding dive r s i t yand a compelling need for change, offering a new vision for the 21st Century. He also explores theadvantages of diversity and its role in our lives and world, bringing his powerful messages to a con-clusion with a call-to-action for every organization and individual.

Diversity is the key that opens the door tothe new wealth of the 21st Century.

—Joel Barker

This workbook is designed to help you and your organization maximize your Wealth, Innovation & Diversity video learning experience. You will have an opportunity to step inside Joel Barker’spowerful messages on the essential role of diversity in creating innovation and wealth in the 21stCentury through dialogue and thought-provoking activities that will engage your own thinking and make sure everyone participating gets involved.

Due to the content-rich nature of the Wealth, Innovation & Diversity video, you will be watchingthe video in three segments. This allows time to take in the messages, as well as time for group discussions and group work to help everyone get the most out of this learning experience.

This workbook will also become a keepsake of knowledge, when it is filled with your own insights and the perspectives of others working with you. Joel Barker’s key messages have also been incorporated to complete this enduring reference.

Your group facilitator will serve as your guide to viewing Joel Barker’s Wealth, Innovation &Diversity video and the individual and group work that will help you apply its concepts and messages to your own organization and its future.

Best wishes to you and your team as you work together to see for yourselves that diversity is the key that opens the door to the new wealth of the 21st Century.

Group Commitments

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“You can and should shape your own future;because if you don’t someone else surely will.”

—Joel Barker

• A new premise for thinking and understanding diversity is presented.

• A compelling need for change for the 21st Century is established.

• A new vision for the future is introduced.

• Learning from each others’ perspectives.

• Exploring what we value: sameness or differences.

• Establishing our own needs for change.

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Setting the Stage for Change

Setting the Stage for Change

As you watch the first segment of the video, look for key messages. Jot down your thoughts.

Journaling in this

context means writing

down thoughts, important

points and ideas that

emerge while watching

the video or reflecting

on what you

learn from it.

• It will help you imprintwhat you see and hear.

• It will help you preparefor and participate in

group discussion.

Your perspective may,

in turn, help others see

important insights they

might have missed.

What key messages did you take away from the story of The PotatoBlight of 1845?

What key messages did you take away from the story told about thepeople across the world in what is today Peru, who domesticated thepotato and cultivated over 100 varieties?

What key message did you take away about the advantages of valuingsameness vs. differences?

What key message did you take away from George Land’s work on thefirst two stages of growth and development of all things?

1ST STAGE

2ND STAGE

Ireland—The Potato Blight of 1845Chose the advantage of sameness.

Short term benefits at a terrible price.

Peru—The Inca on the Harsh Slopes of the AndesCultivated the advantage of diversity.

Under very difficult conditions, prospered for over 15 centuries.

George LandScientist and Author of Grow or Die

ACCRETION—1ST STAGE of growth and development of all thingsREPLICATION—2ND STAGE of growth and development of all things

Setting the Stage for Change

Joel Barker introduced…

● A new premise for thinking and understanding diversity.

■ A compelling need for change for the 21st Century.

▼ A new vision for the future.

• We have a great choice to make. One leads us back to societies where sameness is rewarded; differences demonized. One leads us toward societies where diversity is prized.

• Sameness leads toward impoverishment, in every sense of the word.

• Diversity leads upwards toward a new level and kind of wealth not seen before.

• Diversity is directly connected to innovation and innovation to wealth. The benefits of onecome from enlisting the power of the others.

• Across the centuries, we see examples of people and cultures that sought the advantages ofsameness. Today, we have many groups around the world that continue to practice the belief that there was only one right way. Regardless of outward appearances, they share a common characteristic: a deep fear of differences.

• A more enduring future must be built on differences, not similarities.

• A future based on diversity has the capacity to sustain us for centuries, even millennia.

• Diversity brings with it opportunity for ongoing innovation.

• Innovation provides increasing abundance for everyone.

• Diversity can help your organization, community and nation flourish long term.

“Societies and organizations that most creatively incorporate diversitywill reap the rewards of innovation, growth, wealth and progress.”

— Joel Barker

Sameness or Differences

As a gro u p, discuss each of the questions below. Consider the many dimensions of your organizationthat reflect the value it places on sameness and differences (such as, makeup of your workforce and leadership team, responses to change, track record for innovation in products and services, culture,openness to outsiders, reaction to new ideas). Identify o n e example for each that reflects your answe r s .Discuss both a d va n t a g e s and r i s k s of no change. Make a recommendation for change and innova t i o n .Prepare to share your perspectives with the group.

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“Those people most likely to discover

a new paradigm—the ones that create all the

opportunity for new wealth—are almost

always outsiders, someone who knows little

about the normal way of doing things.

…it is people unlike ourselves who bring to

us the source for new wealth!”

—Joel Barker

• The advantages of diversity are dramatically illustrated.

• The important role of diversity in a complex world is demonstrated.

• The concept of mutualism is introduced and experienced.

• Exploring points of view.

• Establishing a reference point for growth and change.

• Identifying the benefits for our customers, our organization and all of us.

• Finding out where we all stand.

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Learning More About Diversity

Learning More About Diversity

As you watch the second segment of the video, look for key messages. Jot down your thoughts.

What key messages and lessons did you take away from the the story of Dr. Tilman’s research at theCedar Creek Long Term Eco Site?

What key messages did you take away about the relationship of increasing complexity and diversity derived from Ilya Prigogine’s Nobel Prize winning work?

What key message did you take away from George Land’s work about the 3RD STAGE in the growth and development of all things—mutualism?

Key messages about mutualism in the Pine Forest story:

Key messages about mutualism in the Ford Taurus story:

Key messages about mutualism in the Singapore story:

3RD STAGE

University of Minnesota—Cedar Creek Long Term Eco SiteDr. David Tilman, Director

Ilya PrigogineNobel Prize winning work on complexity

Belgium

George LandScientist and Author of Grow or Die

MUTUALISM—3RD STAGE of growth and development of all things

Pine Forest—north of Vancouver, CanadaMutualism at Work

Research led by Suzanne SimardBritish Columbia Ministry of Forests

Designing the First Ford TaurusHuman Mutualism at Work

Singapore—Lee Kuan YewMutualism at Work for a Nation

Learning More About Diversity

Joel Barker explored…

▼ the advantages of diversity and its role in our lives and world.

■ the important role of diversity in a complex world.

● the concept of mutualism and helped you step inside it with three examples.

• More and more, organizational theorists are looking at complex ecosystems to find lessons for enterprises of all kinds. We need to listen to these lessons. What we are seeing is part of the new definition of wealth:

The wealth of sustainability.The wealth of efficient resource utilization.The wealth of lowered risks, increased predictability and improved productivity.

• From Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winning work on complexity…All systems will grow more complex when one condition exists: excess energy to grow.The world is going to be more complex tomorrow than it is today.

• From George Land’s work on the stages of growth and development of all things…Mutualism creates a condition where almost an infinite set of new combinations can be generated using the differences available.

• The diversity of mutualism gives us more choices to solve the problems caused by our increasingly complex world.

• Mutualism combines many diverse elements to create new ideas that benefit all the participants.Without diversity, mutualism is impossible.

“…if you don’t know how to behave mutualistically,if you can’t collaborate with individuals and enterprises

that are different from yourself, then you will never be able to reap the benefits of diversity.”

“Mutualism is the process that converts yourinventory of diversity into wealth.”

—Joel Barker

• is impossible without diversity.

• requires the ability to collaborate with people and enterprises different from us.

• combines diverse elements to create new ideas that benefit all participants.

• converts diversity into innovation and innovation into wealth.

“Working mutualistically, means using our differences to help one another.”

—Joel Barker

This Points of View activity combines individual thinking, small group work and large group discussion. During this activity…

• You will have an opportunity to explore your own thinking and share it with others.

• You will work with a small group to review and summarize others’ perspectives.

• You have a chance to talk with and learn from everyone participating.

To establish a reference point of everyone’s thinking about the current realities and future

possibilities for mutualism within our organization.

✔ Consider the questions on the adjacent page.

✔ Write your responses to each question on separate Post-its®; at least one Post-it® per question.

✔ Use multiple Post-its® for responses covering several themes. (One theme per Post-it® is best).

✔ Please be specific in your answers, so your perspectives will be clearly understood by others; please write in brief narrative form to make your thoughts complete. (SAMPLE: For the most part, we all think alike. True innovation is rare.)

✔ Please write or print legibly.

✔ Post your responses under the appropriate heading on the wall.

Mutualism & Our Organization

1.Name one or two key attributes of our organization that currently support the concept of mutualism? What can we count on that would help move to this new level of growth aspeople and as an organization? Briefly explain Consider such things as: Mission, vision, goals, values, guiding principles, policies and practices—and people, current relationships and other strengths that can influence achieving this new level of growth.

2.Name the top one or two things that currently stand in the way of mutualism? Consider such things as: Value placed on sameness versus diversity, ability to collaborate, personal ownership for change, leadership, resistance to change, culture, strategies and measures, staffing, traditions, policies, practices and other roadblocks inhibiting our ability to innovate and create new levels of wealth.

3.Based on what you know now, how would mutualism benefit our customers, organization and all of us? Consider: What would be different? What would be true about working and living mutualistically that isn’t true today.

4.On a scale of 1–100, what percentage best describes your current level of personal commitment to contribute to creating a mutualistic organization, leading change by your own example. Briefly explain.

Mutualism & Our Organization

• Retrieve your group’s assigned chart.

• Sort the Post-it® notes into themes.

• Use whatever methods or processes work for your group.

• Form conclusions.

• Select representative samples to illustrate main themes.

• Prepare to present a meaningful summary of your group’s findings.

TIME TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT IS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

TIME TO PRESENT FINDING IS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

NOTE: Your facilitator will make group assignments and provide additional details.

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Points of View

gives us long term vigor and ability to survive large scale trauma.

dramatically increases the number of optionswe have for problem-solving.

is the natural direction of the universe.

creates, through growing complexity, the need for new paradigms to understand and interact with that complexity.

is the key that opens the door to the new wealth of the 21st Century.

—Joel Barker

• The connection between innovation and wealth is introduced.

• Paradigm-shifting innovation is explored and demonstrated.

• The connection is made between wealth-generating innovators and diversity.

• The role of outsiders in discovering new paradigms is presented.

• A meeting of wealth, innovation and diversity at the intersection of differences takes place.

Making Our Own Connection• Defining the critical messages for us individually and for our organization.

• Pinpointing the behaviors and actions we plan to change.

• Seeing what can happen when we put our differences to work to INNOVATE.

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Making the Connection

Making the Connection

As you watch the third segment of the video, look for key messages. Jot down your thoughts.

What key messages and lessons did you take away from the discussion introducing the connectionof innovation and wealth?

Key messages about paradigm-shifting innovation in the cellular phone story:

Key messages about important role of the outsiders:

Key messages about the intersection of differences:

Key messages about the connection between wealth, innovation and diversity:

The Cellular PhoneA Paradigm-Shifting Innovation

Changed the basic rules—created a new telephone paradigm.

Ellis Island—Opening the Doors to Outsiders

America is living proof that wealth, innovation and diversity are connected.

Making the Connection

Joel Barker made the connections…

▼ between innovation and wealth.

■ between wealth-generating innovators and diversity.

● to paradigm-shifting innovators being the most powerful generators of wealth.

▲ to the role of the outsiders in discovering new paradigms.

◆ to the intersection of differences being the place where wealth, innovation and diversity meet.

• Diversity sets the stage for new ideas.• Mutualism manifests new ideas into new innovations.• Successful innovations add new value to the world; new value creates new wealth.• As much as 40% increased wealth each year comes from innovation. (Economist)• Ongoing innovation enlarges the economic pie from which the whole world can dine.• Paradigm-shifting innovations add the most new value and the most to new wealth.• Paradigm-shifting innovators are the most powerful generators of wealth on earth.• The people most likely to discover a new paradigm are almost always outsiders.• The people that create all that opportunity for new wealth are almost always outsiders.• Outsiders know little or nothing about the normal way of doing things.• It is people unlike us who bring to us the source for new wealth.• By definition, outsiders must be different from you and me.• You can only access these people if you are open to diversity.• The opportunity for innovation lies at the intersection of differences.• New wealth of all kinds—economic, cultural, ecological—comes from innovation.• Economic, cultural, ecological wealth are all connected and cannot be separated.• Innovation is driven by diversity.

DIVERSITY OPENS THE DOOR TO NEW KINDS OF WEALTH…The wealth for sustainability for both ecosystems and cultures.The wealth of variety.The wealth of new combinations and new innovations.The wealth of outsiders whose new thinking is the direct result of diversity.The wealth of new value added to the world.New economic wealth, too.

“…we need to begin the climb. Together—and we must climb with a commonvision, one that will form the foundation of the 21st Century: To build a world, on the strength

of our differences, where all of us can be happy and healthy at the expense of no one else.”

—Joel Barker

Talking About What We Have Learned &Translating It Into Commitments for ACTION

Making Our Own Connection is designed to help us bring together all the elements that havehighlighted this Wealth, Innovation & Diversity video learning experience. During this activity youwill have the opportunity:

• To do some independent reflecting.

• To work together in a small work group.

• To INNOVATE mutualistically for the benefit of all bringing a new wealth of understanding to everyone.

• To identify key messages from our learning experience to take back to our work and lives.

• To pinpoint behaviors and actions we each plan to change and make a declaration of our commitment to work together to create a mutualistic organization positioned to take advantageof the opportunities of the 21st Century.

This is a two-part work session. It includes small group work and report back to the large group.You may want to pick a facilitator and timekeeper for your group to maximize use of the time allotted. Have everyone in your group familiarize themselves with the entire group workassignment by reviewing pages 34-36 before proceeding. Confirm everyone’s understanding, thenbegin your work!

• Everyone’s participation.

• Listening.

• Reserving judgment.

• Openness to explore others’ perspectives.

• Seeking shared meaning.

• Shared responsibility to make the exchange valuable to everyone.

1. INDEPENDENT THINKING

• Have everyone in your small group work independently.• Read and consider the two questions below.• Record your personal responses in the space provided below.

2. GROUP TALK

• Discuss your individual perspectives of your INDEPENDENT WORK.• In preparation of the report back, discuss the two GROUP TALK questions below.• Record your group’s responses in the space provided:

✔ What are the one or two key messagesyou personally plan to take back to your own work and life?

✔ What one action or change do youplan to make? Consider your ownbehaviors, attitudes and actions thatcould make a difference and could have influence.

What are the one or two CRITICAL MESSAGES you plan to take back to your own jobs?

What behaviors, actions and attitudes do you collectively plan to work on yourselves?

1. C R E AT I N G A G RO U P S TAT E M E N T O F C O M M I T M E N T

After learning about the connection between wealth, innovation and diversity…• As a group, consider the question below:

How would you describe your personal commitment to create an organization(business, workplace or community) that prizes diversity and converts it into

new innovations and wealth with benefits for all who participate?

• CREATE one STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT that represents the perspectives from your group’s work.

2. Report Back Assignment—I N N OVAT I N G M U T UA L I S T I C A L LY:Demonstrate your group’s ability to use its diversity to INNOVATION by finding a creative,interesting and informative way to present your group’s report back in no more than 3minutes—obviously, those who are skilled at operating mutualistically will most likely need less time.• Share the one or two CRITICAL MESSAGES your group plans to take back to their own jobs.• Summarize the behaviors and actions you plan to change?• Share your group’s STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT to create a mutualistic organization.

Report Back Process:Each group will be given up to 3 minutes to report back in some

INNOVATIVE way that will benefit everyone participating.

“The opportunity for innovation lies at the intersection of differences.Innovation is driven by diversity.”

—Joel Barker

Action & Commitments

USE THIS SPACE TO RECORD HIGHLIGHTS OF ALL THE GROUPS PRESENTATIONS.YOU’LL BE SURPRISED WHAT INNOVATIONS EMERGE WHEN PEOPLE

WORK TO INNOVATE MUTUALISTICALLY.

People bring DIVERSITY to an organization.

People create an INCLUSIVE environment.

People make a GREAT WORKPLACE for everyone.

People build THRIVING BUSINESSES.

People achieve ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS.

People create WELCOMING COMMUNITIES.

People DO GREAT THINGS together.

—Debbe Kennedy

Debbe Kennedy is a Be r re t t - Ko e h l e r, pro b l e m - s o l ver and facilitator. She is also founder and pre s i d e n tof the Leadership Solutions Companies, specializing in leadership and organizational communications.She is the author of the Diversity Breakthrough!® Strategic Action Series, a seven book action-directedtoolkit published by Berrett-Koehler in January 2000. It is designed for leaders working to create adiverse, inclusive organization prepared to respond to the opportunities of the 21st Century.Kennedy’s first book Breakthrough!®: Everything You Need to Start a Solution Revolution® received the1998 InnoThink Aw a rd “for the most far-reaching combination of message and media,” given byMA N AG E M E N T GE N E R A L®.

Kennedy, a veteran consultant and a former manager of Equal Opportunity and Human Resources for IBM Corporation, has had a long-held conviction and continuing leadership influence in work i n gto help organizations work tow a rd achieving the ideals of a diverse, inclusive environment. Her effort sh a ve resulted in award - w i n n i n g corporate leadership communications solutions and training pro d u c t sdistributed throughout the world. She knows the leader’s journey as you do. Kennedy has walked it as a valued change-leading strategic partner for FORTUNE 100 executives, managers and communityleaders and in a rewarding leadership career with IBM Corporation that included 15 years as a manager of people and human resource programs. She was recognized three consecutive years byIBM Management De velopment for her contributions and innovations in the area of leadership andhuman resource development.

Joel Barker has chosen Debbe Kennedy as a collaborator on significant projects. She is also theauthor of Joel Barker’s Power of Vision video facilitator’s guide.

To learn more about Debbe Kennedy’s work, visit www.lscompanies.com. You can contact Debbe Kennedy at dkennedy@lscompanies.com.

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