grad., students used this Innovation card deck daily. why don’t you?
Green cards offer systems thinking constructs, conversation types, and speech acts; Blue cards offer questions and quotes to spark conversations for understanding; Yellow cards offer conversations for possibilities; And red cards offer cues for conversations for action. Some cards link to audio and video clips. For example, this card (#1) links to downloadable audio (like a podcast) of two books: (1) "Who Am I? Individual Innovation" and (2) "Conversation Innovation - A Corporate Fable on Leadership, Coaching, and the Power of Conversations"
The late great Bishop Desmond Tutu advocates for forgiveness “for the sake of the forgiver”, and alludes to the integrated nature of Head, Heart, Body and Soul. Listen for his lovely laugh. What is his mood?
Which of the six speech acts above do you notice? Listen for Requests and Declarations and the difference between the two. Notice which you and others use most in conversations?
What’s your purpose in the world, in each of your conversations, in your meetings? Is the purpose of your conversations and meetings clear in your invitations and agendas?
Dan Simon's work at Indiana University on Perceptual or Attention Blindness is demonstrated in this video.
1970 Kennedy Space Center Apollo 13 mission: "Houston: We have a problem!" Was it instrumentation or something else? What assessments are you making and how are they grounded? [I believe that we are assessment machines, making judgements only all the time, and these are mostly subconscious interpretations.]
“The Truth Revealed”
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, trusts the work of Katherine Johnson during the launch of The 1962 Mercury Space Mission. What role does trust play in your work and life?
How “Yes, And” thinking helps us defer judgement while innovating
Listen to a grad student’s comments on the poem "Space for Gray" from the book “Who Am I?” (an audio of which is in Resources)
The Philosophers’ Soccer Match