Elastic Minds: What are you thinking?
Elastic minds are creatives that reimagine ways to create businesses, define how people engage
in learning, and create tools to change markets. People who possess the ability to think
elastically produce game changing outcomes that are available globally.
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Dr. Dave Cornelius is an aspiring servant leader. Focused on helping people to achieve their awesomeness by pursuing happiness, optimizing flow, and accelerating innovation, enabled by mindfulness, lean thinking, and agile practices.
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Dr. Dave Cornelius is an experienced business and IT professional, and a globally recognized lean and agile catalyst who empowers others to achieve their very best. He specializes in coaching, training, and leading co-located and distributed teams to deliver quality innovations from concept to cash.
Dave is the founder of 5 Saturdays, a program that empowers students to become leaders in business and STEM fields. In 2014, he received the SoTec Inspiration Award from the Southland Technology Conference, an honor that recognizes technology professionals for giving back to their community.
He currently presents webinars for business and technology professionals, hosts a podcast on GrokShare.com, teaches courses on KnolShare.org, and publishes the blog “KnolShare with Dr. Dave” on KnolShare.org. He is a well-known speaker and author in the agile and project management professional development communities.
Dave is a man of faith and is active in both his local and global neighborhoods. He has also held several leadership roles, where he helped IT groups develop partnerships with other groups within the organization.
Dave’s interest in leadership started on the island of St. Croix, where he played as a point guard on his high school basketball team, and culminated with earning his Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership. His first manuscript and doctoral dissertation, “The Value of Scrum to Organizations: A Case Study,” highlights the importance and value of leadership through the practices of lean thinking and agility.
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Table of Contents
Dedications............................................................... vi
My Gratitude........................................................... vii
Preface................................................................... viii
ELASTIC MINDS.......................................................... 1
Creative Thinking................................................ 5
Strategic Thinking................................................ 7
Critical Thinking.................................................. 8
Design Thinking................................................... 8
Lean Thinking...................................................... 9
Systems Thinking.............................................. 10
START..................................................................... 12
The Power of Observation........................................ 15
Tracy Treacy Leader Profile................................ 16
Continual Learning................................................... 23
Dr. Dave Martinez Leader Profile....................... 26
Continual Learning............................................ 32
Learning Community - 2-Hour Learning Fridays.. 33
Shu Ha Ri Stages of Learning and Growth........... 34
Continual Learning Journey Map (CLJM)............ 34
Continual Learning Review & Actions (CLRA)...... 43
Clearing the Hurdles —Climbing the Mountains........ 46
Kevin Castle Leader Profile................................ 48
Climbing the Mountains as a Servant Leader...... 54
Climbing the Mountain in the Pursuit of Success 55
The Hurdle of Growing a Business...................... 57
Recovering and Clearing the Hurdle of Loss........ 59
The Story of Getting There....................................... 62
Tammy Hawkins Leader Profile.......................... 64
Storytelling – The Story of Getting There............ 68
Smaller and More Frequent Delivery......................... 75
Richard Dolman Leader Profile.......................... 77
Incremental Value Delivery............................... 85
RINSE...................................................................... 89
Learn Fast - Inspect and Adapt.................................. 90
Alicia McLain Leader Profile............................... 92
Growth Mind-Set.............................................. 99
You Don’t Know It Until You Do It............................ 103
Jill Freeman Stack Leader Profile...................... 105
The Way We Learn.......................................... 110
REPEAT.................................................................. 116
Check the Rearview Mirror..................................... 117
James Wright Leader Profile............................ 119
We Can Only Learn from the Past..................... 126
Pay It Forward to Those Who Follow....................... 130
Wes Kliewer Leadership Profile........................ 132
Coaching and Mentoring.................................. 135
Knowledge Sharing.......................................... 138
Knowledge Management System (KMS)........... 141
When You Fall, Stand Again.................................... 143
Bobby Cooper Leader Profile............................ 145
What Is Your Motivation? - Know Your Why..... 151
Celebrate the Victories – Attitude of Gratitude. 154
Be Aware of Culture............................................... 157
About the Author................................................... 163
References............................................................ 165
Appendix A: Survey................................................ 168
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