Enhancing Global Awareness by David Goldsmith

Author:David Goldsmith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BenBella Books

Sources of Global Information

Amid all the responsibilities you have in a day and the numerous questions you ask yourself about solving your challenges, it can be easy to let the quest for global awareness become nothing more than a quick glance at the day’s headlines or a few minutes of talk radio on your drive to work, but you’ll want to make a greater effort than that, because leaders who continually gather updated information and incorporate it into their Cyclonic Thinking make better decisions and better plans.

So where do you look, and how do you make the most of the time you spend on this task? One of the ways that you can make the quest for global information easier on yourself is to use a tool that organizes the sources of global information by category.

Begin by imagining yourself in the world, and then expand your thinking beyond yourself to the world at large. Notice the ET Global Nesting diagram (Figure 8.4). It is a representation of where you stand in relation to the various levels of diverse groups that not only influence you but that you have the power to influence, as well. The concentric circles reach out beyond you to these influential global layers— groups, organizations, communities, territories, countries, regions, world (and one day, the universe).

As your mind flows from one stacked layer to another, you become aware of the different types of groupings that can impact you and your organization. Already you can see that if you were strategizing with a diverse group of people, this tool could help you to better tap into the intellectual capital of these individuals. You can also combine Global Nesting with subsets under the Approach to Global Awareness—humans and living creatures, physical environment, governances, and technologies—and ask your people to ideate within each layer. What do you and your staffers need to know about governances in a territory, what within the physical environment might impact your organization’s offices in a particular region, and so on. Think about how you can gather new information from sources such as the media, colleagues, books, and more to expand your global awareness of each layer. All this thinking feeds and breeds new thoughts for ET.

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