Comments on: Embrace Chaos To Conquer An Uncertain World http://www.benckenstein.com/creativity/embrace-chaos-to-conquer-an-uncertain-world/ Digital Media & Social Marketing Strategist - Flat World Evangelist Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sebastian Overgaard http://www.benckenstein.com/creativity/embrace-chaos-to-conquer-an-uncertain-world/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Sebastian Overgaard Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:17 +0000 http://www.benckenstein.com/?p=199#comment-263 A great post! You say that you're building an extraordinary team. I truly believe that a single blog post like this will help you build a tribe! Most of the successes I've experienced comes from a trust in the unknown. From being openminded and therefore adjustable to new situations (and people). This is also very much in tune with our work in social media at MINDJUMPERS. I feel blessed that our first big client chose to believe us when we explained that a 6 month social media campaign can't be planned 100%. Having this permission to pursue yet unknown opportunities gave me freedom to foster spontaneous ideas a long with the more strategic approaches. Important to mention that this company normally put much effort into prediction. But they dared to be open to changes and new possibilities along the way. Today they've identified even more KPIs as well as unseen opportunities. The principles you're talking about applies everywhere, but in social media they become extremely evident. For example one of our campaigns got more than 12.000 fans on Facebook from 25 different countries. Working with TribeSourcing and being in contact with such a diverse tribe certainly illuminated the power of chaos. Having conversations and sharing ideas with a global mix of people I wouldn't meet in the office really gave unseen gifts to the campaign a long the way (i.e. mexican granddad, a british singlemother, a 19-year old Malaysian student etc.) Well, one more time thanks for an inspiring post! A great post! You say that you’re building an extraordinary team. I truly believe that a single blog post like this will help you build a tribe!

Most of the successes I’ve experienced comes from a trust in the unknown. From being openminded and therefore adjustable to new situations (and people). This is also very much in tune with our work in social media at MINDJUMPERS.

I feel blessed that our first big client chose to believe us when we explained that a 6 month social media campaign can’t be planned 100%. Having this permission to pursue yet unknown opportunities gave me freedom to foster spontaneous ideas a long with the more strategic approaches.

Important to mention that this company normally put much effort into prediction. But they dared to be open to changes and new possibilities along the way. Today they’ve identified even more KPIs as well as unseen opportunities.

The principles you’re talking about applies everywhere, but in social media they become extremely evident. For example one of our campaigns got more than 12.000 fans on Facebook from 25 different countries. Working with TribeSourcing and being in contact with such a diverse tribe certainly illuminated the power of chaos. Having conversations and sharing ideas with a global mix of people I wouldn’t meet in the office really gave unseen gifts to the campaign a long the way (i.e. mexican granddad, a british singlemother, a 19-year old Malaysian student etc.)

Well, one more time thanks for an inspiring post!

]]> By: David http://www.benckenstein.com/creativity/embrace-chaos-to-conquer-an-uncertain-world/comment-page-1/#comment-254 David Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:10:18 +0000 http://www.benckenstein.com/?p=199#comment-254 Very interesting that just the other day I made an entry about moving in the very direction of this blog. I've only come across your blog today by chance (synchroncity - who knows?). Great posts by the way and very refreshing. I've thought often about how shifts in traditional business models / advertising etc. it's most apparent in digital trends, social media and the like. It's also part of my job to look at what makes something go viral and this relates to what you talk about above. It's about being there at the right place / at the right time and it can't be subject to same predictive patterns, techniques, statistics etc. because it has to hit a social nerve that's relevant for a very short time only. What this means is we often need to just take a punt, take an unprecedented change in direction or you might say a leap of faith into chaos. The rather cliché saying - "if you always do the same things you'll always get the same results" is apt or as Lao Tzu wrote over 2000 years back: "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading" Very interesting that just the other day I made an entry about moving in the very direction of this blog. I’ve only come across your blog today by chance (synchroncity – who knows?). Great posts by the way and very refreshing.

I’ve thought often about how shifts in traditional business models / advertising etc. it’s most apparent in digital trends, social media and the like. It’s also part of my job to look at what makes something go viral and this relates to what you talk about above. It’s about being there at the right place / at the right time and it can’t be subject to same predictive patterns, techniques, statistics etc. because it has to hit a social nerve that’s relevant for a very short time only.

What this means is we often need to just take a punt, take an unprecedented change in direction or you might say a leap of faith into chaos. The rather cliché saying – “if you always do the same things you’ll always get the same results” is apt or as Lao Tzu wrote over 2000 years back: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”

]]> By: ketinunkantim http://www.benckenstein.com/creativity/embrace-chaos-to-conquer-an-uncertain-world/comment-page-1/#comment-240 ketinunkantim Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:51:49 +0000 http://www.benckenstein.com/?p=199#comment-240 Excelent, gorgeous photograph to represent chaos... Imagine it becoming solid and you may start thinking about thinkers, how did they show up on Earth before us in order to leave to us their thinkings. Excelent subject and commentaires of yours, but you still left on the air the same old questions, despite of quoting those talented from the past. We do not know what a been is. We do not know about our origens, nor our purpose on life and not even considered the possiblity for us to find out a way of staying longer, or etternally, when we find the cure for the disease that end killing ourselves, called "oldness"... We need to know how to prevail on life. We need to know how to believe, all of us human beens, in the same God, Nature or even origens, before we start learning about fatality of dying. I wasn't born to die. I assure you that. Excelent, gorgeous photograph to represent chaos…
Imagine it becoming solid and you may start thinking about thinkers, how did they show up on Earth before us in order to leave to us their thinkings.
Excelent subject and commentaires of yours, but you still left on the air the same old questions, despite of quoting those talented from the past.
We do not know what a been is.
We do not know about our origens, nor our purpose on life and not even considered the possiblity for us to find out a way of staying longer, or etternally, when we find the cure for the disease that end killing ourselves, called "oldness"…
We need to know how to prevail on life.
We need to know how to believe, all of us human beens, in the same God, Nature or even origens, before we start learning about fatality of dying.
I wasn't born to die. I assure you that.

]]> By: Rick Hardy http://www.benckenstein.com/creativity/embrace-chaos-to-conquer-an-uncertain-world/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Rick Hardy Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:12:43 +0000 http://www.benckenstein.com/?p=199#comment-226 George, fascinating and inspiring post. You're right. Ultimately, our work at prediction models and the like are left up to luck/divine providence. We simply try to project out. Jesus said not to say that we will go here or there without saying "if God wills it." One of my favorite phrases in life is "there but for the grace of God go I." But like your post says, our responsibility is to be prepared. Someone once said that "luck is when preparation meets opportunity." And my favorite quote from Lord of the Rings, when Frodo says "I wish none of this had happened," Gandolf replies, "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." George, fascinating and inspiring post. You're right. Ultimately, our work at prediction models and the like are left up to luck/divine providence. We simply try to project out. Jesus said not to say that we will go here or there without saying "if God wills it." One of my favorite phrases in life is "there but for the grace of God go I."

But like your post says, our responsibility is to be prepared. Someone once said that "luck is when preparation meets opportunity." And my favorite quote from Lord of the Rings, when Frodo says "I wish none of this had happened," Gandolf replies, "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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