Game Changers 2012
What intrigued me about the class of 2012 Game
Changers, shown here after an intensive 2 day session in July
2012, was how a number of coherent themes emerged as the year
progressed and how that turned a group of individual entrepreneurs
into a powerful team who feel that they can not only build
valuable individual businesses but that together they can change
the world.
I hadn't really seen these themes when the class first came
together. To me they were , at first, a group of extraordinary
people with game changing, potentially world changing ideas. I had
hoped some level of group synergy would emerge, a synergy that
would to some degree offset the fact that in the group sessions I
was having to split my time between 12 businesses, not just focus
on one as had been usual for me.
I was completely unprepared for the dramatic level of synergy
and mutual support which did emerge. One of the things that
helped this was the fact I used my wife (Sue) and son (Matt)
to help with the coaching. They are both skilled at teaching people
the great art of Perfect Pitch- both having lots of professional
experience in communication and both having helped me run numerous
Perfect Pitch workshops outside of the Iconic Shift programme.
My son also adds an expertise in marketing and business strategy
and my wife adds something equally valuable: the creation of a
supportive and nurturing atmosphere which gives the whole thing
something of a familly feel.
So that's one reason that an extraordinary level of synergy
emerged. The other was an unexpected coherence in themes; that is a
coherence in the areas of human experience the individual members
of group were attempting to transform.
This group is tackling:
- Sustainable Prosperity:
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- global banking and trading infrastructures, aimed at bypassing
the recurrent crises (and credit crunches) inevitable in the
globalised banking and currency systems post the financial meltdown
of 2008
- training, support, design and funding infrastrucures for the
army of enlightened, entrepreneur driven SMEs which will be needed
to create meaningful work and economic well being as employment in
large companies continues its long term decline
- Use of renewable resources to fuel growth, including clean
energy
- A new paradigm for health and well being:
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- methodologies for objective and scientific measurement of how
healthy someone is (this is not measurement of risk factors for
developing disease, but instead: a scale of well being)
- nutritional and other treatment plans aimed at increasing the
level of health and well being
- a new understanding of where much disease comes from, covering
both internal and environmental factors
- new materials and new strategies aimed at reducing the effect
of harmful environmenal factors
- the overall effect of all of this could be to radically reduce
the costs of government funded health care going forward
- Global Societal Coherence
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- early intervention methodogies to prevent welfare
dependence and youth disaffection
- methodolgies to help people to deal quickly with with
societally destructive emotional tramas as they happen (eg
divorce, redundancy)
- use of design to connect people to their core identity
- use of entrepreneurship to demonstrate the best of
African, Muslim and Western cultures and showcase the learning each
can take from the others
I set out with Iconic Shift to discover and develop 100 leaders
who change the world. This lot will do a pretty good job on their
own!
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