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    Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World
    Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World
    Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World
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    Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World

    By Dudley Lynch

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    YOUR PERPETUAL GUIDE TO THE POWERS OF LIVING SMART & THINKING SMARTER IN HIGHLY CHAOTIC TIMES

    For any book to earn a lasting place in the canon of life-coaching classics, it must have a central idea that just keeps on giving. What makes Strategy of the Dolphin an enduring “read” year after year is that it contains not one but two perpetually contributing and life-changing ideas.

    One game-changing insight is this: That every moment of our lives, each of us steers by a powerful "big picature" strategy—a commanding storyline that explains who we are and what we regard as life’s most important pursuits and priorities. And the other showstopper of a realization is this: That until we have activated the “strategy of the dolphin” in our life, we’ve stopped short—perhaps tragically so—of adopting the most productive and fulfilling strategy available to us.

    When that happens, we are destined to live out the unfulfilling, often self-destructive strategies of the carp, the shark or the pseudo-enlightened carp. This is a fate, say these authors, that ensnares billions. And it is why so many humans are forced to deal with everyday existence using less-than-optimum thinking and problem-solving skills.

    Readers in numerous business marketplaces and cultures (and in eight languages) have credited the highly serviceable insights in Strategy of the Dolphin with having dramatically changed their lives. That’s because its penetrating “do something different” instructions and highly entertaining aquatic metaphors have yet to be matched in an age when nothing is more prized than practical new wisdoms that work.

    In this groundbreaking work, the authors utilize many vantage points of new paradigm research, from Ilya Prigogine’s Nobel Prize-winning discoveries on dissipative structures, to Clare W. Graves’ “biopsychosocial” change barriers, to Elliott Jaques’ studies on the brain’s “time horizons to Benoit Mandelbrot’s fractal geometries and the work of other chaologists.

    Lynch and Kordis intend nothing less grand than illuminating a new way to think for the reader that is more competent, conscientious and contemporary than any totality of mind skills ever before available generally to us humans:

    * Power to choose instantly, successfully, between the strategies of Take Over, Give In, Get Out, Trade Off and Breakthrough.

    * Power to think tougher, dream smarter and focus beyond the limited vision of the carp, shark and pseudo-enlightened carp (PEC).

    * Power to do more with less.

    * Power to act flexibly, elegantly and with endurance amid the accelerating waves of change.

    * Power to design tools for self-change and self-targeting in mid-wave.

    * Power to fight back strategically when necessary.

    * Power to focus ruthlessly on the 20 percent of your effort that delivers 80 percent of your significant results.

    When it was first published in 1989, Strategy of the Dolphin helped to invent the new field of life coaching. But the book’s influence has gone far beyond the realm of helping people design and invigorate better lives.

    It has spawned two additional “dolphin thinking”-themed books by Dudley Lynch: The Mother of All Minds and LEAP! How to Think Like a Dolphin & Do the Next Right, Smart Thing Come Hell or High Water.

    Business professors have viewed it as an all-inclusive manual of instructions and observations for dealing with fluid, demanding marketplaces and constant organizational change. Experts on metaphors see it as one of the most infectious “memes” ever devised because so many people instantly “get it.” Almost effortlessly, readers around the globe recognize the carp and shark and pseudo-enlightened carp influences around them and within themselves. And from Denver to London to Dakar to Bombay to Johannesburg to Singapore and back, they have aspired to think like the book’s featured “mind”: the agile, versatile, observant, sometimes audacious-acting an

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDudley Lynch
    Release dateOct 9, 2013
    ISBN9780945822110
    Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World

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      It's not the most inspirational writing but the concept more than carries it through. Lynch started talking about flow, in a sense, long before the emphasis it has received in recent years. Unlike the shark and carp personalities, the dolphin: monitors the future steadily; learns constantly from the past; searches for the appropriate response; understands the dynamics of risk and stress; anticipates lag; lets go up front; is open to purpose both as compass and barometer; clearly articulates visions; self-corrects; self-directs; self-perturbates; learns early; learns quickly; learns lastingly; tells the truth with power to herself and to others; uses mistakes to test the winds and waters; knows where he is; knows where he is aiming; uses the power of flow; uses the power of novelty; uses the power of order; decouples ego from failure and success; avoids blame; avoids shame; avoids the need for self-justification; avoids drama; takes responsibility; creates choice; acts to expand the pool; changes the meaning of events; looks for alternatives; does more with less; does something different; favors elegant solutions; stands the heat if it matters; gets out of the pool if it doesn't; appreciates that not everyone can be a dolphin; appreciates that not everyone wants to be a dolphin; appreciates the good qualities of a carp; appreciates when it makes sense to think like a shark; believes in both scarcity and abundance; believes in appropriate retaliation; believes in immediate forgiveness; believes we can all win most of the time; knows how to use the power of brain parts; knows how to use the whole brain; accepts that there are some things he has no control over; is open to surprise; accepts responsibility for experiences and feelings; can admit failure; avoids stupidity; goes for breakthrough; understands that there is more consciousness than dolphin consciousness; and pushes the envelope. Flow results "when challenge and ability are more or less evenly matched." Key to reaching destination is constant course correction. Vision is not just having a destination but knowing you are already there. The underlying current conveys that the frequency of new waves is getting faster and faster and that dolphin tactics are necessary. When in flow, we are anticipating the next wave and changing so as to minimize the gap -- dolphins realize they are not always at their peak.

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