My good friends Olga Fernandez and Jim Sperling, of the Idea Factory, here in Connecticut took my idea for the cover of our OBTC 2008 Program and turned it into this nifty reality.
That lively, hand-waving fellow is our conference icon. Our challenge is teaching that "blows their minds". Or, conversely, their learning that blows our minds. The other two students may be turning ideas over under their more pensive-looking visages.
The point is that all three in that picture present us will minds in various states of awareness. Are we providing experiences, questions, images that make eyes snap open and the excitement rise? No, we don't have to do this all the time, just some of the time, enough times to get them used to constant surprises that await them in our future.
Our subject is creating and sustaining organizations that work in a business world so wildly different each day, that we cannot, in good conscience, send them out of our OB classes with minds barely moved.
Use this bright yellow icon to remind you to design and execute learning events that bring about this high level of excitement. Their future will thank you.
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