Could innovation here at the MIX ensure we reinvent management together with more brainpower, than any of us alone could offer? It’s a question that came to me as I prepared a presentation titled, The Dynamic Journey of the Human Brain. It started me thinking about the multiple talents and intelligences here at MIX, as they link together to pull leadership forward.
It cannot happen if left brainpower jumps on board too quickly to sink innovative seedlings, and it races forward when we toss even more right brain might into the MIX. This Hack merely offers an entry point, from brain based approaches, to begin to discuss how collective flow unleashes brainpower - both to those already here and those innovative leaders who'll come later.
A few key areas below might expand our collective benefits and build on differences we engaged here at MIX. Because questioning possibilities are daily patterns at the MITA Brain Center, I asked simply, What if ….?
In MITA brain based initiatives we know that when left brain editing and judgments come too quickly, or without balance through affirmation and support, left brain operations shut down right brain dreaming, imagining and risk-taking. That limitation also precludes any successful launch of new flights like the Wright brothers offered, and many in MIX risked.
Using the Brainpowered Dimensions of MIX Innovation approach, no MIX inventor will be permitted to jump in and silently or anonymously sink peer ideas (left brain judgements) without openly offering a reflective encouragement, creative possibility, supportive additions, or two-footed questions that build upon and extend the best original ideas.
All MIX innovators will be valued for ideas offered, negotiated criteria will exist for all innovative contributions, and participants will support and build on intelligent inventions openly. Initiatives with superior merit, that address a thirst in society will win top positions in the global marketplace of innovations through production and further support. Entire teams will win, but more significant the word will win through innovative brainpower fanned.
What if ….?
This brief list included a few leaders only with whom I exchanged ideas, yet it could list every leader at this site, as well as the team that launched our brainpower here. What brain based strategy would you use to spark multiple intelligences and innovation to lead a finer future?
What if we mined talents so that people win more, only if their entire group wins? And what if we rallied people talents as cutting edge tools to build innovative leaders that facilitate and foster more diverse talent for a new era?
Dear Ellen, and others by default,
Thank you so much for the mention in your hack. Your argument that together we can make a bigger difference is fully supported by Margaret Mead oh so many years ago; where she suggests that only small groups of like-minded individuals are those who are able to make change happen.
Just FYI, I think of myself less as a leader and more as a provocateur. I'd like to push the boundaries, not because we can, but because we should and must. It's our responsibility to the next/forthcoming generations that drive us that way. If, by hook or by crook, we are able to make powerful & positive change happen through the synergies here at the Mix, that would be fantastic. I'm betting on it. That's why I tossed my hat in the ring. I would encourage others to do the same. And the more radical the idea, the better we are for having read/listened to it.
Might I suggest that it's neither the right or left brain, but application of the whole brain that we all collectively amplify our ability to effect change. And as composite agency theory would suggest, the power of the many should always lever us a bit higher than the power of the one.
Cheers and keep on keeping on.
Do you see a provision for people's work coming together in a meaningful way at the Bazzar you proposed?
Is it in any way like the Celebration of Innovation proposed? Since the best discoveries and designs are clearly incremental - until production, it makes sense that we all may wish to configure the next stage of the MIX venture for this group and those who leap onboard now.
Wonderful thoughts and great video Ellen. The video moves people and drives home the power of right brain with tremendous impact. I agree with your ideas in this Hack.
Thanks for including me in the list.
I suggest we should now think about next steps. For my part, let me ponder over it in the next few days and try to come up with a proposed "Innovation Bazaar for MIX"
Best regards, Chary
Dan, thanks for your kind words and the many intelligences you bring to the MIX.
Yes - I totally agree with you that the list will and should expand. The old guard may have run on exclusion but brains operate in far more talented ways when inclusion guides every step of the way! Yes! Yes! Yes!
Talents will and have already surfaced and innovations will find feet and wings from these talents as people pull together! Let the party begin - because it can end well for all!!
Thanks for stopping by Robyn.
Your thoughtful comments makes huge sense from the brain's perspective. That's so, because to showcase and build top talent through such a harvest, is to grow new neuron pathways for more of the same.
Building together, celebrating individual and group excellence, and facilitating accountability that gets growth - moves right brain intelligence in the right direction!
Count me in:-)
No doubt the intrinsic rewards from collaborating for more invention and participating in final Celebration of Innovation to showcase the final products would jump-start even more progress! Your design to do just that is the launching point.for the next level of groups like this.
Ellen Weber
October 26, 2010 at 7:24pmThanks Aaron, Love your notion of applying both sides of the brain - which is the blog I wrote this morning titled - 10 Whole Brain Essentials for Innovative Era:-) Innovative minds think alike.
Guess I was wondering though - what I may have suggested in this post that led you to think it was not whole brain applications that are critical. Perhaps I could clarify if you pointed me to any statement that left that impression.
Like you I too am betting that this MIX group can gather the synergy to build trust, model change and support dynamic innovation! Thanks Aaron, for your keen part in helping to make that happen.