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Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Applying Exponential Thinking to Organizations with Salim Ismail

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Kwikbrain, Education, Memory, Productivity, Jimkwik, Brain, Business

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today’s business climate has been marked by the rise of organizations built on the principles of exponential thinking—think Github, Airbnb, and Uber. Companies stuck in old linear thinking patterns, like Kodak, have gone out of business. We can no longer rely on repetitiveness and old ideas to get us through—to achieve success in such a competitive climate, we need to be thinking bigger, and constantly changing and developing. 

In this episode, we welcome back special guest Salim Ismail! If you haven’t already listened to my first conversation with Salim, I recommend you listen to episode #89. 

Imagine if you could improve the performance of your organization by 10x — what would it look like? How can we raise the collective intelligence and wisdom of our organizational teams? Today’s guest Salim Ismail is here to tell us how to transform the way your company does business. As the founder of Singularity University, a board member at XPRIZE, and an internationally bestselling author, Salim has built his career on thinking big and teaching others about industry disruption and exponential thinking. 

We cover a lot of ground in this short conversation. We review what makes an exponential organization, explain why new ideas tend to be rejected by legacy organizations and why this is causing stress around the world. We’ll go over some examples of businesses failing due to their inability to take on exponential thinking, and explain why this happens. We’ll talk about how to successfully transform organizations and solve problems. Lastly, we’ll talk about creativity and share a great hack to completely change the way you thinking about saying ‘no’ to ideas.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.

0:06.0

I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

0:08.0

Free your mind.

0:10.0

Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.

0:15.0

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.

0:18.0

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.

0:20.0

I know Kung Fu.

0:22.0

Show me.

0:24.0

Welcome back Quick Brain.

0:28.0

So here's your question of the day.

0:30.0

How do you 10X your organizational brain?

0:34.1

How do you raise the collective intelligence

0:36.0

and wisdom of the culture of your teams?

0:38.9

And we are excited because back with us

0:41.9

is Salim Ismail.

0:44.0

We got so much great response from our first episode together

0:47.6

when we're talking about exponential thinking.

0:50.4

That was more about the individual.

0:52.0

Now we're talking about 10xing the organization

0:55.0

in terms of making it better and faster

0:58.0

in this accelerated world.

1:00.0

And so what is an exponential organization?

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