CHANGING MINDSETS Dr. Sivakumar Kumaresan Material and Mineral Research Unit School of Engineering and IT Universiti Malaysia Sabah

 “Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”  Eckhart Tolle

 May you live in interesting times  Blind Cat runs into Dead Mouse Chinese Expressions

Oil and Gas Business  Marginal Fields  Shale Oil  Shale Gas  Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO)  Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) Interesting Times (1)

Black Swans and Emergent Behaviours  2001 – ENRON Collapse  Tsunami  Global Financial Crisis  2011 – Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Disasters  2013 – Malaysian GE13 Interesting Times (2)

Trends 1.The Long Tail/ Big Data/ Ubiquitous Technology 2.Projects vs Jobs 3.Merging of Biology and Technology 4.New spirituality Interesting Times (3)

 Productive Organizational Culture  Flow  Attention  Energy  Systems Thinking  5 Minds for the Future Outline

Positive Organizational Culture POSITIVE  SUSTAINABLE  VISION DRIVEN  PRINCIPLE GUIDED  WORK = PLAY  LEARNING SYSTEMS NEGATIVE  SHORT TERM  BOTTOM LINE DRIVEN  REAL POLITIK  TIME = MONEY  WORK SYSTEMS

 Why do we work?  Key reasons?  To learn  To connect  To make a difference Meaningful Work

1.Present Moment Awareness 2.Challenge = Ability 3.Personal Power 4.Can redefine Challenge/Goal 5.No sense of Self 6.Distorted Sense of Time 7.Deep enjoyment of experience Flow

1.Conscious control of attention 2.Present Moment Awareness 3.Slow is Fast 4.Thoughts, Emotions and Intuition Train to Flow

Attention Three types of focus  Deep  Going deep into self  Directed  Focused on a fixed ideation/image/prayer  Aware  Expand awareness by heightening senses and scope (based on work of Paul Wilson, author of The Quiet)

 You can’t see it  You can see the effect of it  You can feel it when it’s happening  Energy Flows where Intention goes  It’s reflected in your language  A bright future  A warm person  Energised/ Inspired/Engaged Energy is Everything

Organizational Energy High Energy Low Energy Positive Negative Corrosive Energy Resigned Inertia Productive Energy Comfortable Energy based on Fully Charged by Bruch and Vogel

Mood Mapping (1) High Energy Low Energy Positive Negative Angry Violent Depressed Moody Happy Ecstatic Calm Quiet based on Mood Mapping by Liz Miller

Mood Mapping (2) High Energy Low Energy Positive Negative Angry Violent Depressed Moody Happy Ecstatic Calm Quiet

Mood Mapping (3) High Energy Low Energy Positive Negative Angry Violent Depressed Moody Happy Ecstatic Calm Quiet based on Mood Mapping by Liz Miller

Mood Mapping (4) High Energy Low Energy Positive Negative Angry Violent Depressed Moody Happy Ecstatic Calm Quiet based on Mood Mapping by Liz Miller

 A system is any group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent parts that form a complex and unified whole that has a specific purpose  Thinking in Circles NOT Straight Lines  Basic types  Reinforcing (Positive Feedback)  Balancing Systems Thinking

Reinforcing Greater your weightMore you eat

Balancing Use of meditation Acceptable stress level Gap Stress level S = Same O = Opposite O S S

Success to Successful

Limits to Growth

Tragedy of the Commons

 The Disciplined Mind  The Synthesizing Mind  The Creative Mind  The Respectful Mind  The Ethical Mind 5 Minds for the Future

 Cliché expression but true nonetheless  The whole world is all of us together  There is no “others”  The clarity and strength of our vision shapes the future Shaping the Future

CHANGING MINDSETS Dr. Sivakumar Kumaresan Material and Mineral Research Unit School of Engineering and IT Universiti Malaysia Sabah