This document outlines the key principles of businessThink, which proposes developing critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and principle-centered leadership to help individuals and organizations adapt to change. It discusses how changing old paradigms and developing a growth mindset can enable big changes both personally and professionally. The document argues that treating people as whole beings and giving them autonomy can increase creativity and productivity in the workplace. Finally, it suggests these same principles could apply to educational environments by focusing on leadership, collaboration, communication skills, and cognitive development.

1. Think
business
Dave Marcum
Steve Smith
Mahan Khalsa

2. Are You Ready to Accept
Change?
• Our personal way of dealing with reality and
the surrounding environment.
• Changes of behaviour and attitudes generate
small changes.
• Changes of old paradigms make big changes.
• Inside out changes.
• Private & public victories give us security,
courage and humility.

3. How Can We Adapt to Reality?
Anwart Sadat once said that if we can’t change
the tissue of our own thinking, we will never be
able to change the reality, and therefore, we
won’t ever make progress.
What kind of thinking do we need today when
there are so many challenges?
Speed, technology, innovation, information,
uncertainty, globalization, etc.

4. Learning To Cope With
Change
Covey’s opinion about bringing change to our lives
Change
Moving away from old ways of
thinking.
The principles
Taking correct decisions based
on firm principles.
Freedom of choice
Adopting new solutions by
changing the way we see
problems and opportunities.
Developing systematic
thinking.

5. Is Change Possible at Work?
• Workers of knowledge.
• Mind, body, heart and spirit.
• Free minds and hearts to increase creativity and
productivity.
• Develop people’s potential and autonomy.
• Treat people as whole
people.
• Bring meaning to people’s
lives.
• Balance logic and pragmatism
with intuition and idealism.

6. How Can We Build Up
Proactive Environments?
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Leadership style.
Enpowerment.
Professional development.
Decisions making process.
Trust.
Emotional intelligence.
Communication.

7. Effective Managers – Effective
People
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Combine mental discipline with intuition.
Make questions.
Deepen meanings and contexts.
Incorporate integrity,
trust, compassion,
sinergy, respect.
• Create human
enterprises.
• Model for others.

8. What Does businessThink
Propose?
• Autonomy for criteria, methods and
processes.
• Critical thinking development.
• Emotional intelligence for interpersonal
relationships and problem solving
situations.
• Principle centered leadership.
• Dealing with change.
• Building up fair work environments.

9. Basic Principles Of businessThink
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Get rid of your ego at the door.
Generate curiosity.
Move away from the solution.
Get evidence.
Calculate the impact.
Explore the riple effect.
Slow speed before warning signals.
Look for the origin of problems.
Time management.

10. Are These Principles Applicable
to Educational Environments?
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Leadership.
Classroom management.
Delegation of responsabilities.
Project work.
Team colaboration.
Communication skills.
Cognitive development.
Time management.

11. Conclusions
• The human mind is the bing bang of a
company.
• Discipline, creativity and
systemic thinking produce
big changes.
• Correlation between ideas
and results.
• Fear, ego, mental laziness
and bad communication habits are dangerous.
• Excellence lies in everyone of us.
• Contribute and the world will contribute too.

12. Questions
are
welcome!
Thanks for your attention
María del Carmen Boloña