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"You HAVE permission to Engage! Notice, the emphasis is on the word 'have.' That's because you already possess your own permission to engage. I'm not giving it to you. In fact, I can't. You've always had it; you just have to release it. It's up to YOU to make the decision to engage. Once you have given yourself permission, you are Cleared Hot to create realities from possibilities beyond your expectations.
What does Cleared Hot mean? Well, in military terms, it means you have permission to fire your weapons on your target. During training that means you're shooting at wooden tanks or old worn out tires. In real combat, you're firing on the enemy. An enemy that in my case was trying to shoot my attack helicopter out of the sky.
In civilian life, Cleared Hot the process of acting on a Breakthrough Mentality (BTM)."
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"We're in the midst of a revolution bigger than the TV or PC and businesses of all types and sizes will be faced with how to deal with it. Not only are many businesses not ready, others are totally unaware.
The new market is mobile and it's about to change everything. Mobile is a game changer."
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"Our world is in trouble. We need leaders who lead for the benefit of others.
I believe we need to systematically transform the leadership culture from a dominating system to a liberating system. I believe it starts one leader at a time. Each leader must play a part in this transformation by thinking differently about the way they lead if we are to ever see true 'Change in the World.'"
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"Our education system places great emphasis on teaching us about facts that are already known, such as historical information or scientific tables, and then testing us in order to measure how much we've retained about that body of knowledge.
Those skills work perfectly well for many situations, but not when doing something new. Or creative. Or original. They certainly won't help us invent the future.
As education and creativity researcher and author Sir Ken Robinson puts it, 'We are educating people out of their creativity.'
But it's still there. And unleashing our creativity, however deeply it's hidden, begins with little bets."
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"This manifesto is about creating revolutions. Not big political revolutions, although it could help there too, but revolutions of any size and in any field or industry. It is also about innovating, and how to be better at it and how innovations, properly nourished, are the catalysts of revolutions.
To start with, we should all recognize that innovation is a process, not an event. When the process results in dramatic change, it is called a revolution. At any one time there are numerous revolutions underway that will affect our life. We have a choice – we can be a part of the revolution or we can deal with it when it comes. In our modern world I really don't think the latter option is a viable choice."
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