Strategic Doing:

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Strategic Doing

• Tools for Linking and Leveraging Assets for
  School Transformation

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Change
Paul Erdos
Co-opetition
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The Bacon Number

• Kevin Bacon Commercial

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The Bacon Number (cont.)

• The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the
  number of degrees of separation they have from
  Bacon, as defined by the game. This is an
  application of the Erdos number concept to the
  movie industry. The higher the Bacon number, the
  farther away from Kevin Bacon the actor is.
• The computation of a Bacon number for actor X is
  a "shortest path" algorithm
• If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom
  X has appeared in a movie is N, X's Bacon number
  is N 1.
• Kevin Bacon himself has a Bacon number of 0.

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If Alice collaborates with Paul Erdos on one
paper, and with Bob on another, but Bob never
collaborates with Erdos himself, then Bob is
given an Erdos number of 2, as he is two steps
from Erdos.
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Small World Phenomenon

• The world is tied together by a network of
  personal relationships.
• When we discover these unexpected relationships,
  we say, "It's a small world."
• There's a popular hypothesis called Six Degrees
  of Separation.
• Two mathematicians at Cornell University have
  shown that any network will probably be a "small
  world" of this kind.

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Network Mapping
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Network Mapping
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Network Mapping
Key Opinion Leaders
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Network Mapping
21st Century Networks
Old Hierarchies
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Degree OneCo-opetitionGame Theory
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The Business and Chess Game
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Epson, Motorolaand Union Pacific

• If the Union Pacific Railroad had recognized
  that it was in the transportation business you
  would be flying Union Pacific jets today instead
  of Midwest Express.

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Degree TwoGame Theory Perception
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Texas Shootout
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I Cut - You Choose
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Degree ThreeGame Changer
When the rules of the game prove unsuitable for
victory, the gentlemen of England change the
rules.

• Philosophers have only interpreted the world.
  The point is, however, to change it.
• Karl Marx

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How do you change the game?

• Most people talk about changing the game by
  changing the rules. That certainly is one way.
  But you can also change them by
• Players
• Added Value
• Rules
• Tactics
• Scope

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Think Your Way Out of the Box
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Degree Four

• Production Forecasting

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Heartstrings

• Social Consequences
• Lower marriage rates
• Higher out of marriage childbirths
• Poorer nutrition
• Poor health and health care options
• Cognitive function issues
• Lower outcomes for education for offspring
• Lower voting rates
• Lower rates of volunteering, civic participation

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Pursestrings

• What are the impacts of committing economic
  suicide by dropping out of high school?
• Lower employment rates
• Mean annual income of below poverty level
• Mean lifetime earnings difference of over
  600,000

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Additional Big Picture Impact on Society of the
Implications of Dropping out of the Talent
Pipeline

• Higher rates of incarceration in jails and
  prisons
• Higher victimization costs
• Higher costs of maintaining prisons and jails
• Fiscal Outcomes
• Lower payments on payroll and income tax state
  and federal
• Lower property tax payment rates due to lack of
  home ownership
• Large net fiscal burden on other taxpayers

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Degree FiveStrategic Doing

• We are all
• here connected
• to something
• good.

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Its not Home Alone Its A
Wonderful Life
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Degree SixThe Dream Catalog
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Show the Dream

• Window Into Talent and Learning

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Resource Mapping
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National Challenge

• For every TEN students who start high school
• SEVEN will get a diploma (1 will obtain a GED)
• FIVE will enroll in a postsecondary institution
• Fewer than THREE will complete a Bachelors
  degree within 10 years

Courtesy of Jobs for the Future
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Watershed Series
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Accelerated Solutions Lab

• New and innovative service
• High tech solutions lab
• Team approach
• Facilitated problem-solving
• Variety of facilitators available
• Real time solutions that will make a difference
• Partnering with AVI Systems, Cisco Systems,
  Microsoft, Harvard University