Cracking Complexity: This is how you solve your toughest problems with David Komlos & David Benjami
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In this episode we discuss how you can get smarter in a complex and complicated world. How do you deal with confusing and difficult situations? How do you work through some of your lifeâs most complex problems? In a world of accelerating change, how do you accelerate the quest for wisdom and creativity? We share simple, powerful, solutions you can use to handle complexity in this interview with our guests David Komlos and David Benjamin.David Komlos and David Benjamin - they are the CEO and CTO respectively of the company Syntegrity. Mr. Komlos is an expert coach for leaders on solving their issues. He advises top leaders and enterprises on how to dramatically accelerate solutions and execution on their defining challenges. Mr. Benjamin leads Syntegrityâs lab and client delivery organization. He has been recognized internationally for his work on global strategic planning with top executives in Fortune 500 companies.
⢠What is complexity? Why is it so important to be able to handle complexity in todayâs world?
⢠How is complex different than complicated?Â
⢠Experts can help solve complicated challenges, but not necessarily complex challengesÂ
⢠Complex challenges are multi-dimensional and human.
⢠What are some basic mental models for sorting complex challenges vs complicated challenges?
⢠Ask yourself:
⢠Has this been solved before? And how was it solved?Â
⢠Would this problem have been the same 5 years ago or 5 years from now?
⢠Complex challenges donât have a recipe or a discreet playbook to be solved
⢠Planning a wedding is complicated, having a happy marriage is complexÂ
⢠Building a fence is complicated, being a good neighbor is complexÂ
⢠The Law of Requisite Variety / Ashbyâs LawÂ
⢠"Only variety can destroy variety"
⢠You can only solve complex challenges by bringing an equal amount of variety to a challengeÂ
⢠When we are facing tough complex challenges - we need a variety of experience and expertiseÂ
⢠âA Lion In Your Office"
⢠Often a BIG chunk of the challenge is just SEEING the problem in its entiretyÂ
⢠An ounce of information is worth a pound of data. An ounce of knowledge is worth a pound of information. An ounce of understanding is worth a pound of knowledge. An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of understanding.Â
⢠Shared understanding is essential - but we often rush to action before we get thereÂ
⢠We need FAST Wisdom and CREATIVE Judgement to solve our biggest challenges in todayâs world - but wisdom takes a lifetimeÂ
⢠How do you accelerate the quest for wisdom and solve the worldâs toughest and most complex challenges?
⢠Complexity is the defining challenge we face in todaysâ world
⢠How do you engineer Fast Wisdom?
⢠The framework you can use to engineer âfast wisdomâ and solve tough, complex challengesÂ
⢠N*N-1 Mental Model and how to create âcollaborative collisionsâÂ
⢠The ideal number of a group of people to work in a group is 5-8 people - you can have very creative and effective collisionsÂ
⢠How you can create groups to crunch through tough, complex challenges - by using this specific formula
⢠Observers
⢠Critics
⢠Members
⢠How do you ask good questions when looking to solve tough challenges?
⢠Homework: Think about a dinner party. What question will guide the conversation in the right way? Who would you invite to create variety?
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