Killer Innovations

Dateline:  Sunyvale, CA

Segment 1:  Listening Skills

Listening is just, if not more important, than speaking.  To re-learn the skill of listening, try these exercises.

• Close your eyes and listen to the TV.  What do you hear?  What do you hear that you normally wouldn't notice if you were watching?
• Get away from the noise and re-adjust your personal noise filters
• Listen with your eyes.  What for the visual clues such as hand movement and body language
• In meetings, learn to talk less
• Practice interviewing and facilitating conversations of others
• Record and take notes in a meeting.  Re-listen to the recording.  What did you miss?
• Eavesdrop on a conversation.  What did you hear that showed good or poor listening skills?
• Final 'model' listeners.  Ask them how they do it?
• Teach your kids how to listen.

Segment 2:  Rules of Future Forcasting

Based on the rules shared by Paul Saffo with the Institute of the Futures.

• Rule 1: Know when not to make a forecast
• Rule 2: Overnight successes come out of twenty years of failure
• Rule 3: Look back twice as far as forward
• Rule 4: Hunt for weak signals
• Rule 5: Be indifferent
• Rule 6: Tell a story
• Rule 7: Prove yourself wrong

Segment 3:  Killer Question Of The Week

Segment 4: Closing Thoughts

"You can either take action or you can hang back and hope for a miracle.  Miracles are great but they are so unpredictable."

Pater Druker 

Music: provided by Luigi Cappel.  The name of the song is "Telephone Card"

Link to the June 10th podcast