Future Intelligent Leadership Podcast: Exploring Foresight and Leadership for an AI-Augmented World - Episode 4: Contextual Leadership, Self-awareness, Team Coherence, Leadership intent, Operating in Complexity

Episode 4: Contextual Leadership, Self-awareness, Team Coherence, Leadership intent, Operating in Complexity

12/20/19 • 44 min

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

In this Episode 4 of the Futures Intelligent Leadership Flowcast I am joined by Dave Snowden and Craig Whelden.
Dave is the founder of Cognitive edge which was founded in 2005 with the objective of building methods, tools and capability to utilize insights from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems. Even if you do not know who Dave Snowden is you may be familiar with, or even used one of his decision making frameworks, called the Cynifen Framework, which he developed while at IBM to help understand the context for decision making. If you look at his profile you will quickly realize that he has a brilliant mind and alot of wisdom to share.
Craig has 40 years of experience in the US Military, both in and out of uniform. He recently retired and authored a book titled, “Leadership The Art of Inspiring People to Be Their Best” and he enjoys motivational speaking about his experiences in leadership. I had the pleasure of meeting Craig in Honolulu Hawaii prior to his book release and found him to be a very humble and authentic person, and a great model of leadership.
In this dialogue Dave and Craig explore contextual leadership, cognitive diversity to manage complexity, coherent teams and cultures, why many military command techniques are rooted in neuroscience, why changing process and relationships dynamics is more effective than trying to change people, The power of leadership self-awareness, the strengths and limits of 360 reviews, and the important of real time feedback loops and leadership narrative.
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Episode 3: Reactive To Proactive Leadership, Creating Space for Futures, Taming Fear of the Future.

Aloha and welcome to todays flowcast. I am joined by Sean Webb in Charlotte North Carolina and Bronwyn Williams in Cape Town South Africa.

Sean is a Specialist in Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Emotional Intelligence, and the Algorithms of Human Emotion. He is the author of “Mind Hacking Happiness” and currently co-hosts a podcast with two navy seals called “two seals and a walrus”

Bronwyn is the foresight lead and trend analyst for FluxTrends.com and she is the co founder of Apollo42 Which develops brands for the future.

In todays dialogue we discuss the role of emotions and expectations in helping leaders shift from being reactive to proactive. Why leaders are hunger for change, but also find change difficult. How leaders get trapped focusing on the day-to-day and cannot find the space to look into futures. How we can use long term thinking and cognitive reflection to tame the emotions of fear when we think about the future. The role of artificial intelligence in decision making and relationship management. And why the leaders of today might not be the leaders of tomorrow.

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Episode 5: How Self-Awareness & Inner Dialogue shape the future, Safe Space for Play & Creativity, Foresight as a Company Hygiene

In todays episode of the Futures Intelligent Leadership Flowcast I am joined by John Sweeney in Kazazstan and Philippe Guichard in Australia.

John is an assistant professor of futures and foresight at Narxoz University in Almaty Kazakstan and Director at the Qazaq Research Institute for Futures Studies and a Foresight advisor for Interpol. John has organized, managed, and facilitated workshops and seminars, multi-stakeholder projects, and foresight gaming systems in both the public and private sector in over 45 countries in around the world.

Philippe Guichard is the founder and creative director at D2 Design and Development. He is an Award-winning international industrial designer with over 20 years of industrial and product design experience. He is also a TED x speaker and presented on the topic “Re-designing our world. Small Changes = Big impact.”

Todays dialogue seemed to focus in on the importance of the inner narrative and how that shapes lens and values through which leaders see the future. One point that John makes was in reference to a study that demonstrated how the narrative and metaphor frames choices and future possibilities.

In the study titled "Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning" (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016782), for half of the participants, crime was metaphorically described as a beast preying on the city, and for the other half as a virus infecting the city. The results revealed that metaphors systematically influenced how people proposed solving a cities crime problem. When crime was framed metaphorically as a virus, participants proposed investigating the root causes and treating the problem by enacting social reform to inoculate the community, with emphasis on eradicating poverty and improving education. When crime was framed metaphorically as a beast, participants proposed catching and jailing criminals and enacting harsher enforcement laws.

In the dialogue John and Philippe also discussed the importance of self awareness for foresight, creating safe spaces to experiment through play and creativity, why command and control no longer works, the importance of collaboration for future leaders, and why foresight needs to be part of a companies hygiene.

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