Ed Morrison presented this material to the California Workforce Association in Newport Beach on April 7, 2010 This material is copyright Ed Morrison and.

Synch or Sink

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Experience...Skills...Connections....Focus...

Tools for Accelerating Tools for Accelerating

Collaboration: Collaboration:

Synch LessonsSynch Lessons

Ed Morrison

Purdue Center for Regional Development

April 7, 2070

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Ed Morrison

Purdue Center for Regional Development

April 7, 2070

‣ Where are we?

‣ How did we get here?

‣ Where are we heading?

‣ How will we get there?

That started in our Grandfather’s generation

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Our Grandfather’s S- Curve started with relentless innovation

And is ending with financial manipulations

We are left with some legacy systems that do not work very well...

High rates of 3d grade illiteracy

High school drop out rates over 30%

Too many high school graduates with weak skills and no career plans

Not enough graduates for “Middle Skill” jobs

High rates of college remediation

Too few STEM graduates

Really expensive re-entry programs

No easy way out for the working poor

High rates of adult illiteracy

Weak skills among many unemployed

Escalating skill demands in the career cycle

Conclusion: We’re not likely to fix this mess...(We’ll have to innovate)

‣ Where are we?

‣ How did we get here?

‣ Where are we heading?

‣ How will we get there?

Our Grandfather’s economy ran on highly efficient hierarchies

People at the top did the thinking

People at the bottom did the doing

Global integration

Collapsing costs

The Internet explosion

But these business models were blown apart by...

Every few hundred years in Western history, there occurs a sharp transformation.

Peter Drucker, The New Realities (1989)

‣ Where are we?

‣ How did we get here?

‣ Where are we heading?

‣ How will we get there?

Toward our Grandchildren’s economy...

The iPhone production

network

Question: Who makes the iPhone?

Answer: A network led by Apple

How did regions deal with challenges in our Grandfather’s economy?

How are most regions dealing with these challenges in today’s networked world?

Our challenge is to find the pathways to our Grandchildren’s economy

Connecting our many assets with “link and leverage” strategies

‣ Where are we?

‣ How did we get here?

‣ Where are we heading?

‣ How will we get there?

We need to Synch

The Rules of Synch Rule 1: Guide conversations

Focused conversation fuels collaboration

The Rules of Synch Rule 2: No whining

Whining wastes time

30 people X 20 minutesX $100 per hour

equals $1,000

The Rules of Synch Rule 3: Create a civic space for complex thinking

In May 1787, the Constitutional convention started with rules of civility

The Rules of Synch Rule 4: Stop looking for permission

Welcome to

The Permission Room

The Rules of Synch Rule 5: Close triangles

Bill

You

CathyE-mail introductions take 5 minutes

100 people3 triangles a week per personequals15,600 new links per year

The Rules of Synch Rule 6: Go slow to go fast

Ride the wave...Going slowly at first enables you to accelerate later

The Rules of Synch Rule 7: Don’t fear invisible fences

(They don’t work on humans)

The Rules of Synch Rule 8: Take the Shanghai Perspective

Our View Their View

The Rules of Synch Rule 9: Help someone to help someone

The Rules of Synch Rule 10: Practice strategic doing

Strategic doing connects Big Ideas with Next Steps

Here’s strategic doing in a nutshell...

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By Synching, we generate swarm innovation to transform our economies

Regions across the country are synching

Locations of strategic doing workshops in 2009

Kokomo, IN

Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee 7 region used strategic doing to build its water cluster

Boise, ID

Idaho used strategic doing in their Governor’s Workforce Development Summit

Cape Girardeau, MO

Southeast Missouri used strategic doing to shape a strategy for its P-20 Council

Denver, CO

Colorado used strategic doing to explore new connections in its workforce system

‣ Where we are: In a major economic transformation

‣ Where we are heading: To our Grandchildren’s economy and a world of open networks

‣ How we will get there: Building action-oriented networks by Synching

‣ Where we are: In a major economic transformation

‣ Where we are heading: To our Grandchildren’s economy and a world of open networks

‣ How we will get there: Building action-oriented networks by Synching

‣ Where we are: In a major economic transformation

‣ Where we are heading: To our Grandchildren’s economy and a world of open networks

‣ How we will get there: Building action-oriented networks by synching

Can we...

Swim upside down under water, stick our feet in the air, and do this together without getting water up our noses?

You bet we can.

A time to Synch...It all starts with sharing

Thank you!

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Ed [email protected]

www.edmorrison.comwww.edpro-weblog.net

Purdue Center for Regional Developmentwww.pcrd.purdue.edu