How to Win in a Game Changing World

Prediction is a dangerous game. Imagine trying to predict the outcome of a sports competition wherein the rules of the game continually and episodically changed. There would be no experienced commentators using years of experience and statistics to offer probabilities of how the game will unfold. Imagine your past experience and in particular knowledge gained were less relevant for achieving future outcomes. This new ever changing game would be novel all the time – demanding new skills that enabled one to quickly experiment and adapt useful approaches while just as easily discarding ones no longer helpful.

In a game changing world your best approach might be to simply enter a game to learn and from there create ways to succeed. What would it require? First and foremost you would need to be acutely self-aware. You’d need the skills to develop and sustain an appreciation of the context to sense when change was occurring and make necessary judgment about the consequence of that change. Once judgment is passed you seek, discovery or create a path toward favorable outcomes or position.

In the real world many of us are prisoners of dated mental models that create individual an organizational blinders. These blinders limit awareness and the ability to attain an appreciation and dependent opportunities and/or risks. We can’t see the change and if we did our overconfidence in knowledge deny the truth. We must evolve our thinking.

“Seeing the world as it is” rather then how you wish it were disrupts old thinking patterns and opens up an entire new way of achieving a favorable future. To learn more register for one of our two day shops at www.thinkingcrisp.com or contact us at [email protected].