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The Individual Drîm Solutions

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The Individual Drîm Solutions

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Apply drîm to your desk, workload & backlog.

The Individual Drîm Solutions

  1. Attituning: Deliberate attitude, motivation, resourcefulness & confidence.
  2. Defrag Your Brain: reduce the fixed-incrteasing overhead of task context swithing using cogtnitive batching & scheduling.
  3. TARPS: Time Allocation Ratios, Planning & Scheduling.
  4. Provisionals: Force something out, no matter how inadequate to serve as a proviaional solution.
  5. AGI (Alternative Generation & Integation): generate & integrate alternatives to an evolving provisional>working solution.
  6. GPS (Goal|Problem|Solution): the drîm solution strategy pattern.
  7. Need Surfacing:
  8. Xplor: instead of asking open or closed questions to secure and offer empathy, respect & trust, ask multi-option-add-your-own questions - and then validate by repeating it back in their workds before doing tso in your own, to tease out the insghts.

 
 
 
 

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Defrag

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Free up time and energy lost (easily a day a week) in seemingly unavoidable multitasking.

Gain not only time and throughput, but also increased customer satisfaction and accelerated capability and collaboration, in the process.

Defrag

  1. Task Completion: Complete tasks before switching.
  2. Task Batching: Batch similar tasks together.
  3. FocusTimes: Schedule times to work uninterrupted.
  4. Interruption Windows: Publish ideal interruption times.
  5. Scheduled Catch-Ups: For co-workers.
  6. Interruption Processing Slots: Times for working on non-urgent stuff that comes up.
  7. Mental Bookmarking: Record next steps before switching.
 
 
 
 

Provisionals Technique

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Use the power of provisional solutions to overcome the Peter Principle and Perfectionism.

Provisionals Technique

Provisionals Technique is deliberately adopting very rough and of necessity inadequate solutions ahead of any thought or research.

The power of provisionals lies in their creation of a tangible working solution - that is a lot easier to enhance than an ethereal solution that doesn't yet exist.

Provisionals can take the form of a few descriptive words or a rough diagram or barely-working prototype: anything to trigger of the enhancement phase of the innovation cycle.

 
 
 
 

AGI

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AGI Image: Cycle with one circle, three circles and and combination of four curcles, around a bar graph with alternatiing flat and angled-up tops.

A way of deliberately and systematically developing lateral, outside-the box solutions.

AGI

(Alternative Generation & Integration

Generate and integrate significant alternatives to a starting provisional solution.

The starting provisional solution defines and is defined by the box one is currently thinking in.

Generating alternatives to it forces one to come up with something outside that box: a solution that defines its own - different - box. Integrating the solution ideas defines a new - more powerful and valid - box.

 
 
 
 

How to Improve Flow Dramatically

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Every challenging situation or thing is a flow-system. This section covers counter-intuitive ways of deliberately and systematically improving flow.

How to Improve Flow Dramatically

The problem with flow is that we all think we understand it & how to improve it - but there's a lot more to it than we realise.

The primary dimensions of flow are: flow-rate, flow-time, flow-quality, flow-cost & mental flow-state. They're closely related, which doesn't make it any easier to work out how to improve things!

Even the simple insight that end-to-end flow-rate is determined by a single bottleneck - which is obvious to everyone - is seldom capitalised on (people seldom know, agree, prioritise or focus on relieving the bottleneck).

 
 
 
 

Flow-Time Reduction

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Set of counter-intuitive steps to reduce the cycle-time of any system, process, programme or situation.

Flow-Time Reduction

Flow-time is related to, but distinct from flow-rate. Flow-rate affects flow-time, but there are other things that contribute to flow-time, including:

  1. Rework time.
  2. Wait-time.
  3. Setup-time.
  4. Processing time.
  5. Curing time.
  6. Travel-time.
 
 
 
 

AGI

(Alternative Generation & Integration
AGI Image: Cycle with one circle, three circles and and combination of four curcles, around a bar graph with alternatiing flat and angled-up tops.

A way of deliberately and systematically developing lateral, outside-the box solutions.

AGI

(Alternative Generation & Integration

Generate and integrate significant alternatives to a starting provisional solution.

The starting provisional solution defines and is defined by the box one is currently thinking in.

Generating alternatives to it forces one to come up with something outside that box: a solution that defines its own - different - box. Integrating the solution ideas defines a new - more powerful and valid - box.

 
 
 
 

How to Create a Pull-System For Change

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Replace the normal coercive push-system for change that people can't help but resist with a vengeance to a compellingly attractive pull-system for change that they embrace with a passsion.

How to Create a Pull-System For Change

We resist change only because of perceived or valid concerns: address them and we embrace the change.

  1. Restrict access to the programme to people with the drîm appetite, aptitude and influence.
  2. Commonstream roll-out features with participants' existing interests and passions.
  3. Provide response and engagement frameworks, to bring and equip people to engage collaboratively.
  4. Roll out like ripples in a pond - using a demand-driven approach.
 
 
 
 

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Change Framework

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A simple diagnostic and intervention framework to help people to target their change efforts.

Change Framework

Diagnose and intervene, surgically at the lagging prerequisite(s) for change.

Resistance to change is very seldom illogical - never mind willful. There is nearly always a perfectly understandable reason for it - even if not a totally valid one.

Identifying, ahead of time, the full set of potentially valid and understandable concerns that people might have - and providing ways of addressing them to everyone's satisfaction, smoothes the way for and enhances change.

 
 
 
 

Deliberate Mastery

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How to decimate the 10,000 hour requirement...

Mastery is about becoming - individually and collectively - so good at challenging things that we can do them quickly and automatically.

Deliberate Mastery

  1. The Mastery Definition
  2. DAIF
  • MODIF
  • REMODIF
  • Deep Practice
  • RAP Sessions
  • Deep Practice
  • The solution is to deliberately identify the most common remaining success and failure modes - and their earliest symptoms - ahead of time - so that we can apply deep practice techniques to grow our capability, at increasing speed, in the face of growing complexity and under increasing pressure, over time.

     
     
     
     

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