Presentation made in Singapore on May 23rd.

1. PLANNER GONE ROGUE
@hklefevre
illchangeyourlife.wordpress.com

8. I QUIT MY JOB

9. “ I’ve been a surgeon for eight years. For the past
couple of them, my performance in the operating
room has reached a plateau. I’d like to think it’s a
good thing -- I’ve arrived at my professional peak.
But mainly it seems as if I’ve just stopped getting
better.
”
Atul Gwande
“Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better”

10. “ Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw
you as a precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom,
could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky
enough to find your way to such teachers, you will
always find your way back.
”
Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie

11. Seth Godin
Quoted in Uncertainty
“ If you are lucky enough to have somebody who will
pay a lot of attention to you, then great, more power
to you. But to search for their magic? I’m just not
”
buying it.

12. THE EARLY ADOPTERS

13. “ So let me get this straight... you want to invite your
6 ft tall, blond, single friend who you met on the
internet to stay with us in our house?
”
Meredith Oke

14. FIGURE OUT WHAT I NEED TO
LEARN

15. WHAT I KNOW ABOUT PLANNING

16. WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS

18. LIKE PAULA ABDUL SAYS:
MAKE IT YOUR OWN

19. YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE
UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE

20. FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS

21. A GIFT = TO GIVE, TO RECEIVE,
TO RECIPROCATE

24. 2008: 73
2008: 461
2008: 5
2008: 38

25. 2008: 73
2008: 461
2009: 104
2009: 532
2008: 5
2009: 9
2008: 38
2009: 220

26. 2008: 73
2008: 461
2009: 104
2009: 532
2010: 156
2010: 682
2008: 5
2009: 9
2010: 12
2008: 38
2009: 220
2010: 249

27. 2008: 73
2008: 461
2009: 104
2009: 532
2010: 156
2010: 682
2008: 5
2011: 227
2009: 9
2011: 909
2010: 12
2008: 38
2011: 23
2009: 220
2010: 249
2011: 255

29. PLANNER PEN PALS

30. COUCH SURFING FOR PLANNERS

31. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

32. ONE MORE GENEROUS PROJECT

33. @juniorstrategy
juniorstrategy.com

35. PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

36. THE DRAMA OF CRITICAL THINKING IS OUR PROCESS.
TAKE IN A BUNCH OF INPUTS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES.
ASK A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS NO ONE HAS BOTHERED TO ASK.
HYPOTHESIZE SOLUTIONS.
CRAFT A STORY TO HELP PEOPLE EMBRACE THE IDEAS.

39. SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE

40. FOR IDEAS PEOPLE, WE LOOK AT
SURPRISINGLY FEW INFLUENCES

41. SOME PEOPLE COLLECT DOLLS...

43. EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW, WE LEARN THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE

46. NEVER STOP LEARNING

47. CANADIANS DON’T LOCK THEIR DOORS

48. IMPOSTER SYNDROME MAY
BE A BIG DEAL

49. I’M GOING TO LEARN A LOT
ABOUT PUBLISHING
“
The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell,
from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t
give you the date and it didn’t give you the specifics. It just spat out a
sliver of paper on which were printed, in careful block letters, the words
DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL
OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die.

50. TITLES AND PROJECTS
PROLIFERATE

51. “IN THE LAND OF THE ONE-EYED
MONSTERS, CLOSE ONE EYE”

52. THE VAMPIRE OF
INTERESTINGNESS

53. SPINNING PLATES

54. WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO LIVE, WHO TO LOVE

55. SHAKING THE TREE OF
CHANCE

56. I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE RETHINKING EVERYTHING

57. SHOP THE WORLD, STEAL FROM
THE BEST

58. JASON’S TALE OF TWO ROBOTS

59. DAVE LAVERY OF NASA

60. ROBBIE

61. COLIN ANGLE, THE INTERN

62. MEET TOOTH

63. “ One of the interesting things that we’ve noticed is that
companies correlate on decision making and speed of
decision making. There are basically no companies that
have good slow decisions. There are only companies that
have good fast decisions. I think that’s also a natural
thing as companies get bigger -- they tend to slow down
”
decision making. And that’s pretty tragic.
LARRY PAGE
CEO OF GOOGLE

64. COLIN POWEL 40-70 RULE

65. “ The big problems are these sorts that only ever
get solved by trial and error, so when they are
being solved, they are being solved through
experimentation, which is often a bottom-up
process. When they are not being solved it is
because we are not willing to experiment, or to
”
use trial and error.
TIM HARFORD
ECONOMIST

66. COLIN NOW

67. WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS
YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE
SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE
UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE
FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS NEVER STOP LEARNING

68. WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS
YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE
SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE
UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE
FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS NEVER STOP LEARNING
PLEASE SUGGEST BOOK TITLES

69. WORK FROM YOUR STRENGTHS PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS
YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECIDE
SEEK INPUTS FROM EVERYWHERE
UNTIL YOU HAVE TO DECIDE
FIND A WAY TO BE GENEROUS NEVER STOP LEARNING
PLEASE SUGGEST BOOK TITLES
PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY

70. @hklefevre
illchangeyourlife.wordpress.com
hklefevre@gmail.com