keith yamashita – daring to be great
Keith is another of the amazing people I got to meet at bif6. In fact, Keith’s closing talk left me numb. I literally was unable to move out of my seat for maybe 10 minutes. I felt I had to sit and soak in as much of the room he had graced, as long as i could..
Here’s the tumblr I took notes in .. so all the other story tellers there as well. The following are notes from Keith’s talk.
ibm
Is it worth daring to be great?
Each of us come from a null set hypothesis –
We believe we are in a world of every onward y=x
Then along comes shock y=-x
New abnormal, new para normal
My answer starts with these:
Grew up in orange county ca, happy childhood
Zoom out smog film
This was a shocking revelation
There’s who we are then outside of that then outside of that then ….
[dang this guy knows how to present]
Got a bunch of guys about to turn blue
Dad was an engineer on the apollo project, engineer and psychologist
Grew up with a dad who’s job was to put the man on the moon
When you grow up in a house with all the sketches and calcs, etc You start to believe that anything was possible
Is it worth it to dare to be great
Answer has a lot to do with families and beginnings
The center – you
Is where it starts
Kids are born to greatness, it’s not some deficit you have to fill to become great
All kids start great, we unlearn greatness, we suppress it,
Kids start in a perfect curious package
Imagination, ideas and curiosity
What it takes to be great:
Being fully aware and fully alive
When the rest of the world is going to tell you no
It’s whether you are up for the journey to be fully aware fully alive
Why is that importatn
Because it’s rarely an individual act
It’s about duos, that chemistry allows you to do great things
Charles and ray eams – represent what he means by duos
Who is that in your life that you have inherit trust, even if they are opposite to you
Being in a duo is a super scary thing
Trusting so deeply you can create together remarkable things, what neither of you can create on your own
The japan society (check it out) about the quiet lens
Interview innovators for 2 weeks
I trust you implicity to do a terrific job and come back with what you learned
It opened up this great relization about what innovation is about
It’s not about each of them, it’s about us
Think about the duos in your life, the invitations you extend, how many you pass up
Dualship happens every single day
The ability to be great is staring your right in the face
The only way to make things happen, you need teams, duos are the greates thing to make it happne
Trust only happens with duos
Challenging the status quo, to create a new future
Create teams that are built on duos that can actively go after that status quo and do what’s right
It takes:
Systems thinking and creativity
Almost all the challenges are systemic challenges
We have the power to do it – we just have to harness it
Keep zooming out
You, duos, team, organization
Ending the tyranny of the false trade-off
Paul girly – everything has to be optimized
We often suboptimize – with an either or mentality
There are hard trade-offs – but you don’t have to make false ones
Often there are better choices than the first choice
First brand fellow of ibm
Help the world build smarter cities
There’s so much more all of us can give to this solution
Representative of the next passion we have to embrace
The systemic strategy that ends the tyranny of the false trade off
2×2
X axis resource
Y axis possibility
Infinite possibility with finite resource is where there might be hope upper left
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but rfk
We have no other choice than to try to be great.
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And here he is today.. talking about greatness.. the thread that holds us all together:
Keith Yamashita: The 3 Habits of Great Creative Teams from 99U on Vimeo.
all acts of greatness are the role of an ensemble
work with leaders as they re-found their mission and purpose
the people who get stuck most often are the ones who try to do the most – unstuck app – getting in touch with what causes you to get stuck
lesson for being great:
soloist — finding your rhythm. your unique patter for getting unstuck
ensemble — cultivate specific habits that they do that make them great – teamworks app – each person understanding their superpower, if everyone playing to superpower, you get great permission to work on great work, purpose-making becomes essential
most of us are pretty good at looking, not so much at seeing
it’s amazing how much time people spend in teams where they are not using their superpower (superpower cards)
duos – smallest unit of trust in a team
look at your top 10 duos in your life
it all comes down to how you react in that duo in any moment.. love.. or fear..
greatness lies in that act of generosity
greatness is the act of being courageous enough to be fully yourself
and then surrendering to an ambition that you share with others..
to go change the world.
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bif10 – archive?
Keith – run the wall – be fully alive
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working for steve jobs:
on steve, and mark, and ibm…
16 min – on art museum and people wanting to touch art17 min – what a ceo has to do – see alt future.. and a way to get there… face ambiguity.. help people to see it’s going to be ok18 min – design is a method of imagining something that does not yet exist
ie: a nother way
revolution of everyday life.. all designing each day. as the day.
19 min – embracing constraint (that which painfully is), challenging the status quo (it does not need to be this way), summoning courage (you will act before almost anyone else sees your pov)
22 min – most of us good at looking not at seeing
perhaps we focus on that… ie: tech that helps us see with heart via self-talk as data et al…
be you. 