Future Intelligent Leadership Podcast: Exploring Foresight and Leadership for an AI-Augmented World - Episode 11: Cognitive Bases & Bias of Leadership, Mitochondria & Leadership Energetics, OODA to DOODAC, Causation vs Disposition

Episode 11: Cognitive Bases & Bias of Leadership, Mitochondria & Leadership Energetics, OODA to DOODAC, Causation vs Disposition

03/29/20 • 54 min

Future Intelligent Leadership Podcast: Exploring Foresight and Leadership for an AI-Augmented World

EPISODE 11 of the Futures Intelligent Leadership Flowcast
I am really excited to share this episode with you, because I am joined by two scientist...and am I reminded of my early days in college research parasitic Protozoa and DNA binding behavior within different contexts.

What is interesting is the two guest are many years apart. We have Dr. Jim Giordano who well into his career as a professor and neuroscientist, and we have Gabe Fernandez-Bueno, who is just getting started in his career as a clinical research scientist. So we have perspectives on leadership, not only from the mind of scientists, but also from the perspective of different generations. I think you will find the dialogue very insightful and provide a new lens from understanding what it means to be a leader.

DR JAMES GIORDANO
Jim is a Neuroscientist and neuroethicist focusing upon mechanisms and treatment of neuropsychiatric spectrum disorders, and neuroethical issues generated by brain science and its applications in medicine, public life, and military intelligence and warfare. He is a Professor in the Department of neurology and biochemistry and chief of the neuroethics studies program At Georgetown university.

Gabe Fernandez-Bueno, PhD
Gabe is currently a Clinical research scientist at the translational research Institute for metabolism and diabetes. He is a multidisciplinary scientist with an interest in aiding the advancement of medicine to understand the intricate cellular mechanisms at play during metabolic and autoimmune disease pathogenesis. His focus is on creating the next generation of prevention techniques, therapeutic modalities, health services, and medical devices.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
One thing I really enjoyed in the dialogue was Jim’s and Gabe’s continual reference to philosophical thought. It helps to remind us that philosophical thought is often at the root of scientific theory and research.

In the dialogue we discuss the Cognitive bases of leader, Participatory leadership and how that also correlates with human cell biology, the importance of the three vistas of capability in the future, How an embodied and embedded brain impacts decision making, Why the ooda loop is really the doodac loop, How our biology is expressed through relationships and responds through psychology, Why mitochondria is important for understanding leadership function and biological energetics, Why understanding causation and disposition are required to complete the story of science, and finally, how initial conditions shape a system and how that impacts the context of leadership.

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Special Episode: A Moment of Leadership Resilience with HA:KU Global

In this special episode of the Futures Intelligent Leadership Flowcast, HA:KU global advisors share their insights and tips for leadership during times of complexity, uncertainty and exponential change.
SUMMARY OF INSIGHTS:
Tyler Mongan, President, HA:KU global: Two types of resilience. (1) Find Physiological resilience through focusing on the heart-beat for 1-3min and increase the Heart Rate Variability (HRV). (2) Find Results resilience by recharging your attention through pausing and taking an expanding view. Finish your task and feel accomplished. Then expand out and see what needs attention now. Repeat.
Armon Owens, CMDMC, US Navy: Do not assume the state of others that are emotionally compromised. Keep yourself in a high-performance state for clear decision making.
Bill Genovese, Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Banking & Financial Markets at Huawei: You need both Outside-In and inside-out perspectives to take a more wholistic and adaptive view. Do not get caught up in competition us vs them mindset, rather this is a situation requires a collaborative and quantum mindset.
John Sweeney, PhD. Director at Qazaq Research Institute for Futures Studies (QRIFS).- Watch your signal to noise ratio and have clear lines of communication within your organization to ensure you are staying connected on important matters. Even though you need to take extreme measures now, it is important to also consider second and third order impacts of decision making.
Loretta Breuning PhD, Founder of Inner Mammal Institute. - The brain is looking for prediction to stimulate dopamine as we confirm the prediction. This is difficult in times when we cannot see the future. Be aware that this is what the brain wants...find other ways to stimulate dopamine by focusing on a project to accomplish. You need to take step toward a reward to get the dopamine, so if your goals have changed, then find new sources of reward. .
Luke van der Laan, PhD, Associate Professor & Director of Professional Studies, University of Southern Queensland. - We need leaders to show they are part of the global community by giving. Not to self isolate and retreat from a world that needs them. Show extra generosity. Give their time. involvement, safety, and resources. Systems that have entities that only take, cause the system to collapse. If leaders give to the system, the system will give back.
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Episode 12: Slow Down To Speed Up, Crowd Sourced Futures, Using Metaphors To Change The Future, Mega Trend Convergence & Fantasy

This this episode of the Futures Intelligent Leadership Flowcast I am joined by Furturists Sohail Inayatullah, and Elina Hiltunen.

About Sohail Inayatullah

Is the current Chair in Futures Studies at UNESCO and USIM. He is a Professor at Tamkang University In Taiwan and The University of Melbourne in Australia. He is passionate about helping individuals and organizations develop their alternative and preferred futures. He completed his PhD at the Political Science Department at the University of Hawaii.

About Elina Hiltunen

Elina Hiltunen is the Futurist and CEO at What’s Next Consulting. She has an extensive experience in anticipating and innovating futures. Elina has writer11 books, including, "Foresight and Innovation: How Companies are Coping with the Future” and a children's book about computational thinking. Elina received here Doctor of Science in Future Studies and Organizational Learning from Aalto University In Helsinkin Finland

About This Episode

I met Sohail for the first time a couple years ago during his once a year trip to Hawaii. And found him to be very insightful with a unique perspective on futures and change. Interestingly, 10 years ago Sohail was one of Elina’s thesis advisors. By random chance they meet again on the flowcast.

Both Sohail and Elina have been in the Professional foresight field for many years. What I really liked about this dialogue was the contrast between Sohail’s discussion around the power of individual metaphors and Elina’s interest in collective or crowd sourced foresight. As you will see in the dialogue we need to integrate both into a coherent whole to understand the future.

In this dialogue we discuss the importance of slowing down to speed up, mindfulness and foresight, crowdsourced foresight, the power of metaphor for inspiring change, The importance of discovering the cognitive diverse of weak signals, why foresight is useless without the power to act on it, how to look at mega trends, Why anticipation = Facts + Fantasy, and how changing the end of an old story changes the future.
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