Illuminate edu book12/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Elven Princess has a gift-giving ceremony, gives Frodo a crystal phial filled with light saying “it will shine brighter when the night is about you.She replies, “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.This task was appointed to you, and if you do not find a way, no one will.Once you successfully come to the end of one stage of the venture, use speeches, stories and ceremonies to create galvanizing moments again to orient them to their spot on their journey.You can see that the middle stages, Fight and Climb are the struggle.Torchbearers spring travelers into action at critical moments and heighten their excitement about the venture ahead.Along the way the hero is tested, challenged and ultimately changed returning home weary but wiser.Transformation follows a story structure.In order to guide your travelers toward that future, you have to anticipate their reactions by imagining each step along the path as they might experience itĭream, leap, fight, climb, arrive, redream.Most would rather stick with the task at hand and get through their own pile of work, than jump into something new.Most people don’t want things to be disrupted.As you anticipate the future, start, grow mature, (S curve), re-dream, start, grow mature.The smartphone in your hand, the artisanal coffee in your cup, and the floor covering your feet exist because of a fearless creator hatched an idea and communicated an inspiring vision.Leaders don’t just anticipate the future, though, you also shape and bring it forth.Leaders role, your role, is to light the way for your team through empathetic communications – to be a torchbearer.Because a change of any kind is frightening to most people, leaders have to narrate the journey from here to there and back again with clarity and conviction and most of the empathyĪnd then a torchbearer envisions a new possibility.She has learned the hard way that coming up with ideas is easy and getting others to embrace them is not.Though Nancy is a seer of the future, Patty’s gift is to see things from another person’s perspective.Taught her a new level of empathetic storytelling skills, that when applied to our own situation, helped us cope with the brutal realities of systemic change.The dream of a new future turns into the fire in my belly and I carry the idea forward like a torch, lighting the path so others can thrive’ Ability to anticipate what’s ahead, as if the future is illuminated for her in a way that others can’t see.‘Ignite Change through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols’ At each stage, you as the ‘Torch Bearer’ and the leader need to light the way for your travelers, using speeches, stories, ceremonies, and symbols. It takes us through the story of change through the stages: Dream, Leap, Fight, Climb, Arrive and Re-Dream. ![]() The book is centered around the ‘Innovation Life-Cycle’ and the ‘Venture Scape’. Illuminate is a cool, well-structured, well-designed book about creating change. Illuminate – by Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez ![]()
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