“The Power of the Future” presented at ABLA 2014 in Florianapolis

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“The Power of the Future” presented at ABLA 2014 in Florianapolis, Brazil on September 25, 2014
Focusing on the Dream:
Imagining & Creating the Future
By Engaging Leaders
Barry Silverberg
Director, Center for Community Based & Nonprofit Organizations
at Austin Community College
Principal, Silverberg Associates
Silverberg.barry@gmail.com
© 2014 Barry Silverberg – silverberg.barry@gmail.com
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Coming from … Going to …
The Power
of the
Future
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You Influence the Cosmos
If your life works you influence your
family.
If your family works, your family
influences the community.
If your community works, your community
Lao Tzu
influences the nation.
If your nation works, your nation influences the world.
If your world works, the ripple effect spreads
throughout the cosmos.
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Where is our ripple?
If you do not know where
you are going, any road
will get you there!
Mark Twain
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The Power of the Future
• We define what “success” is;
• We create the vision and future to achieve
it;
• We create the “space” to engage others to
establish, implement and sustain that
future;
• Simple strategies can achieve engagement
and result in “success”; and
• It can be as simple as “ABCD”!
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Creating the Future
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Creating the Future
We must reject the idea – well
intentioned, but dead wrong – that
the primary path to greatness
in the social sectors is to
become “more like a business.”
Most businesses – like most of anything else in life
– fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
Few are great. When you compare great
companies with good ones, many widely practiced
business norms turn out to correlate with
mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why
would we want to import the
practices of mediocrity in to the
social sectors?
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Overwhelmed by the Present
Some problems are so
difficult that we cannot
solve them in a million
years …
Unless we take
5 minutes
to think about them
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Thinking Outside the Box
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Critical Insights
#1
#2
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Six Guidelines to Effect Real Change
• Make things happen.
– There is no future in
believing it can’t be
done.
• Test prevailing
wisdom.
• Link goals to plans for
success.
big plans. Plan
• Make
small steps.
• Involve others.
– People support what
they build.
• Use what you know,
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Adults will learn
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
what they want to.
when they feel they need to.
by doing.
by solving problems they can associate with their
reality
Experience interferes in adult education.
Best in an informal environment.
Adults need feedback.
Adults require a variety of teaching methods.
Realized Potential
The driving force in our
organizations, both for-profit
and not-for-profit, ought not
to be goal achievement or
asset management or
quantifiable growth,
important as these are.
Rather our society badly
needs organizations and
people that move
relentlessly toward
realizing their potential.
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Effective Groups
Free &
Informed
Choice
Internal
Commitment
Valid
Information
Conditions necessary for effective
engagement and development
Visionary Leadership
Vision
+ Communication
= Shared Purpose
Shared Purpose
+ Empowered People
+ Appropriate Organizational
Changes
+ Strategic Thinking
= Successful Visionary Leadership
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Thinking Strategically within Nonprofits
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Strategic Thinking Model
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Pre-STLG Survey
• Why are you involved?
• At end of your term, what is 1 thing you
want to reflect back on with pride?
• What are you doing to help ensure
achieving this?
• What are the UNDISCUSSABLE ISSUES that
affect the group’s ability to achieve TOTAL
SUCCESS?
• CONFIDENTUAL: What we should know to
be effective?
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Strategic Thinking Leadership Gathering
6 wks before
4 wks before
6 hrs
4 wks after
6 hrs
4 wks after
STLG1
4 wks after
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Stakeholders
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Purpose Mission
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Clarifying Mission
To provide high quality, innovative, and
diverse community- oriented programming
to Austin with an emphasis on those
communities that are ignored or
underserved by mainstream media;
including serving and promoting specific
communities of African-Americans, AsianAmericans, Chicanas/os, elders, gays,
lesbians, homeless, immigrants,
Indigenous peoples, Latinos/as, people
with disabilities, women, working and
poor people, youth, and other
underserved communities. KOOP
Community Radio supports the struggle for
social justice and peace. KOOP Community
Radio will operate with a high level of
participation and accountability to the
communities being served
Engaging the
culturally
curious
through
creative and
purposeful
entertainment
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STLG 1
STLG2
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Goals-Objectives-Strategies-Programs-Metrics
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Getting Things Done Worksheet
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Excerpt from Turtle Wing Foundation1
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Excerpt from Turtle Wing Foundation2
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Excerpt from KOOP1
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Excerpt from KOOP2
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Strategic Thinking Model
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The Power of the Future
• We define what “success” is;
• We create the vision and future to achieve
it;
• We create the “space” to engage others to
establish, implement and sustain that
future;
• Simple strategies can achieve engagement
and result in “success”; and
• It IS as simple as “ABCD”!
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If not now, when?
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Until we meet again ….
Barry Silverberg
Silverberg.barry@gmail.com
1-(512)-560-9589
“So, until next week –
Adios amoebas”
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“The Power of the Future” presented at ABLA 2014 in Florianapolis

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