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Now-to-New is a transcendent innovation, change and problem solving approach enabling a move from the current situation (Now) to what’s needed instead (New), such that beneficiaries experience maximum value.
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Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
As president, he changed the nation’s economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917.
He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.
Read a full transcript of the address he gave at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA on 25 October 1913.
Note that he was addressing undergraduates and that his actual words were “You are not here merely to prepare to make a living.”
View the Wikipedia entry for Woodrow Wilson
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The main modes of Now-to-New work are innovation, change and problem solving. Across all modes, close attention is given to the downstream value that will be generated for customers or users and other beneficiaries.
No matter how the project is framed by the people involved, the goal of any innovation, change or problem solving project is a shift from the way things are right now to a new reality — a new now — in which the desired result has been accomplished. The new product or service has been launched, the change has happened or the problematic situation is a thing of the past.
Imagine that three people meet to discuss a prospective joint project. Person A frames it as an innovation project. Person B thinks it’s a problem solving project. Person C considers it a change project. Consequently there’s no shared language, no common mental model and no collective understanding, resulting in crossed wires and the design and deployment of a suboptimal intervention.
The Now-to-New frame fosters unity of purpose and focused collaborative action by providing clear distinctions and straightforward conceptual frameworks that everyone agrees to adopt.
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Bryan Coffman
Bryan Coffman is a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Experience Center, where he practices as an architect of multi‑day co‑creation experiences. Prior to joining PwC he was a partner at Sente Corporation, and at InnovationLabs. Earlier, he was employed as a knowledge worker at MG Taylor Corporation, the originator of the acclaimed DesignShop method. While there, he authored the article Anatomy of the creative process, from which the quoted text is excerpted.
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) was an American writer. His books include Cannery Row, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature and has been called “a giant of American letters”.
View the Wikipedia entry for John Steinbeck
Mind, body and spirit
Human beings are built for creating the new by means of mind, body and spirit.
Be aware that mind-body-spirit is nothing more than a convenient fiction. Each one of us is an undivided whole, and the abstracted parts work together in ways we will never fully understand.
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This bare bones model is fleshed out in slides 6 to 23.
The brain’s left hemisphere governs the right side of the body and vice versa.
In the Carlos Castaneda books and the Toltec philosophy, left and right refer to the body, not the brain.
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Section header – mind – horizontal
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Left, right, right should call the shots
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McGilchrist, Bolte Taylor, Castaneda, Hill
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Mundane and primal worlds
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Primal – life experienced in the raw
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Map and territory – McGilchrist
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Detail and big picture
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Thinking and thoughts
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Planning and sponteneity
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Names, descriptions, arrow of time
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Abstractions
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Rules
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Domesticaled vs wild
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Story vs no story
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Service
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxEgo development theory proposes that it is a characteristic of maturity to discover that not knowing is the highest form of knowing. Foo-ling is about the capacity to recognize the folly of trying to explain and map everything. It is about truly seeing how thoroughly we tend to confuse our maps and theories with the territory.
Susanne Cook-Greuter, The Construct-Aware Stage of Ego Development and its Relationship to the Fool Archetype (pdf)
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Intent
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Synthetic imagination, natural imagining
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Transcending the mundane caveat
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Section header – body, vertical
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Seven powers – image
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Seven powers exposition
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Seven powers & superpowers
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Section header – spirit – intersection
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Animator of creation
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Image: mind, body, heart
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Faith
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Image – faith > powers and superpowers
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