Contextual Intelligence Podcast with Dr. Matthew Kutz.

Episode 15 - Action Steps for Enhanced Thinking

00:02 Introduction and Welcome

00:23 Understanding Contextual Intelligence

01:21 Overcoming Fear and Embracing Complexity

02:26 12 Action Steps to Improve Contextual Intelligence

04:14 Developing a Contextual Intelligence Action Plan

07:15 Perfecting Your Ability to Extract Lessons from Experiences

08:10 Transforming Knowledge into Wisdom

09:21 Acting Quickly When Circumstances Change

12:25 Leveraging All Five Senses in Decision Making

14:01 Balancing All Feedback and Looking for Nonlinear Patterns

18:12 Manipulating the Future with Actions in the Present

18:20 Recalibrating Goals and Outcomes

20:36 Becoming Literate in Framing Problems of Different Disciplines

22:01 Learning to be Retroflexive

24:26 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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The Contextual Intelligence Podcast - Episode 14: Overcoming Obstacles to Contextual Intelligence

00:03 Introduction and Welcome

01:29 Understanding Contextual Intelligence

05:05 The Concept of Micro and Macro Contexts

05:56 The Role of Contexts in Our Lives

09:50 Overcoming Obstacles to Contextual Intelligence

10:25 The Pace of Change as an Obstacle

11:35 Improvisational Wisdom: A Solution to Rapid Change

13:42 Understanding the Complexity of Contexts

13:42 Complexity as a Major Hindrance

17:51 Learned Behaviors and Their Impact

21:05 Conclusion and Contact Information

Contextual Intelligence Podcast - Episode 13: Disruptors of 3D Thinking

00:03 Introduction and Welcome

00:36 Understanding 3D Thinking and its Disruptors

05:59 The Impact of Hindsight Bias on 3D Thinking

09:29 Overcoming Hindsight Bias

13:46 Conjunction Bias: Another Disruptor of 3D Thinking

19:04 The Importance of the Agreement Trust Matrix

21:00 Conclusion and Farewell

Contextual Intelligence - Chapter 11: Learning Contextual Intelligence

00:05 Introduction and Overview

00:25 Understanding Contextual Intelligence

01:46 Debunking the Myth: Leadership is Learnable

04:01 Starting the Journey: Where to Begin?

09:02 Mastering Your Context: A Prerequisite to Learning Contextual Intelligence

12:58 Experience Banking: Learning from Every Context

15:19 Becoming Co-Lingual: Adapting to Different Contexts

18:11 Creating a Contextual Map: A Strategy for Acquiring Contextual Intelligence Skills

20:41 Asking the Right Questions: A Key to Contextual Intelligence

23:10 Conclusion and Contact Information

Making Decisions in Variable-Rich Contexts

In this episode of the 'Contextual Intelligence Podcast', host and author, Dr. Matt Kutz, talks about the challenges of decision making in variable-rich contexts. He emphasizes the need for leaders to effectively assess a multitude of variables, taking into account complexity and diversity of contexts and points of view. Kutz stresses the importance of knowing where one wants to end up before making decisions and reframes the understanding of intelligence as the capacity to diagnose and respond to one's environment. The episode delves into the concept of adaptability in leadership, recognizing the impact of contextual ethos and successfully transitioning between different contexts as key attributes of a contextually intelligent leader.

00:03 Introduction and Overview

00:31 Understanding the Complexity of Decision Making

01:58 The Importance of Knowing Your Desired Outcome

03:37 The Role of Variables in Decision Making

04:44 The Dangers of Over-Reliance on Data

05:06 The Role of Stakes in Decision Making

06:18 The Importance of Diverse Perspectives in Identifying Variables

08:44 The Role of Foresight in Decision Making

12:36 Redefining Intelligence in Decision Making

14:51 The Importance of Adaptability in Decision Making

19:10 Understanding the Contextual Ethos

21:20 The Importance of Transitioning Between Contexts

23:15 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Enhancing 3D Thinking for Better Decision-Making

Author Dr. Matthew Kutz delves deeper into the concept of 3D Thinking derived from his book, Contextual Intelligence, How Thinking in 3D Can Help Resolve Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity. He explains the importance of harnessing temporal skills including hindsight, insight, and foresight for informed decision-making and goal achievement. Drawing parallels between the 3D thinking model and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', Matthew emphasizes the notion of becoming our own 'Christmas Ghost', i.e., learning from our past and using that knowledge currently for a fulfilling future. He suggests crucial questions to ask oneself and emphasizes the role of multiple perspectives to overcome inherent biases. One of the ways to practice these thinking skills includes 'time warping', cognitively manipulating past and future events, as well as 'time chunking', grouping time segments in hours, days, or months.

00:02 Introduction and Welcome

00:15 Understanding Contextual Intelligence

00:29 The Concept of 3D Thinking

01:18 The Influence of Charles Dickens on 3D Thinking

02:40 The Role of Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight in 3D Thinking

03:40 The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge as a Metaphor for 3D Thinking

05:01 The Importance of Outside Perspectives in 3D Thinking

07:27 Practicing Hindsight in 3D Thinking

14:46 Practicing Insight in 3D Thinking

17:50 Practicing Foresight in 3D Thinking

22:34 Developing Temporal Skills for 3D Thinking

24:52 Conclusion and Contact Information

3D Thinking: Hindsight, Foresight, & Insight

In this episode, the host, Dr. Matt Kutz, discusses part three and Chapter 8 of his book, 'Contextual Intelligence'. He introduces the concept of three-dimensional thinking using the '3D Thinking Framework' comprising hindsight, foresight, and insight. Hindsight leverages past experiences, foresight is future readiness, and insight is mindfulness of the present.

Matt explains the importance of integrating these three time orientations into decision making, and their impact on leadership effectiveness. He also discusses the implications of overemphasizing one time orientation over others. Matt suggests that equal importance should be given to all three perspectives for successful decision making. He concludes by explicating how practicing this 3D thinking can help flip VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity into Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Alignment.

00:03 Introduction and Podcast Overview

00:39 Introduction to 3D Thinking and Time Orientations

01:06 Exploring Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight

02:50 The Importance of 3D Thinking in Leadership

03:54 The Pitfalls of Overemphasizing One Time Orientation

09:45 The Role of Time Orientations in Decision Making

20:37 Understanding the Four Areas of Knowing

22:48 The Importance of Being Present: Insight

25:08 Flipping VUCA with 3D Thinking

25:59 Conclusion and Future Discussions

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Contextual Intelligence: Leveraging Learning and Tacit Knowledge

In this episode of the Contextual Intelligence Podcast, Dr. Matt discusses leveraging learning as a part of his series on the three meta-skills of a contextually intelligent thinker. He delves into the idea of 'tacit knowledge', a knowledge that is context- and experience-dependent and often subconscious and implicit. The episode goes on to explore the role of explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge, highlighting how most of our knowledge, decisions and behaviors are based on tacit knowledge. Dr. Matt also introduces the concepts of analogical reasoning and vicarious experience as ways to leverage learning, and explains how innovating attitudes and behaviors play into handling learning and tacit knowledge. The episode concludes with an overview of how tacit knowledge, intuition, and wisdom relate to each other and the importance of understanding why we think what we think and behave the way we do.

00:05 Introduction to Contextual Intelligence

00:27 Understanding the Three Meta Skills of Contextual Intelligence

00:49 Exploring Tacit Knowledge

01:25 The Role of Explicit Knowledge

01:57 The Iceberg Metaphor: Explicit vs Tacit Knowledge

02:53 The Influence of Tacit Knowledge on Behavior

03:37 The Importance of Metacognition04:19 Unpacking Tacit Knowledge

07:25 The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Leveraging Learning

10:06 Balancing Vicarious Experience with Firsthand Experience

12:23 Understanding the Drivers of Innovation

18:25 The Convergence of Wisdom and Intuition

20:48 Conclusion: Leveraging Learning for Contextual Intelligence

Contextual Intelligence: Reframing Experience and Valuing Synchronicity

Host Dr. Matt Kutz, discusses the concept of reframing experience within volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. He highlights the value of asking better questions in problem-solving instead of relying solely on past experiences, which can turn obsolete quickly. He emphasizes that the role of a leader in volatile circumstances is to bring calm and clarity by asking the right questions, rather than providing immediate solutions. Furthermore, he explains the influence of synchronicity - the process of deriving meaning from coincidences - on decision making and problem-solving abilities. He notes that synchronicity helps us learn multiple perspectives from a single experience, benefits from others' experiences, and understand the significance of all experiences.

00:05 Introduction and Contextual Intelligence

00:25 Reframing Experience in a VUCA Environment

02:19 The Role of Experience in Problem Solving

06:31 The Detrimental Effect of Traditional Experience

07:42 The Value of Novice Perspective

12:30 The Concept of Synchronicity

15:47 The Role of Synchronicity in Contextual Intelligence

20:22 Conclusion and Recap

Episode 6: Embracing Complexity and Exploring the Difference Between Complexity and Complication

In this 6th episode of the Contextual Intelligence Podcast, Dr. Kutz talks about Chapter 5 of his book, 'Contextual Intelligence, How Thinking in 3D Can Help Resolve Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity'.

He discusses how the value of chaos and complexity can enhance our problem-solving capabilities and leadership skills. He emphasizes the importance of embracing complexity rather than seeking to reduce or avoid it. Dr. Kutz differentiates between complex and complicated systems and explains the concepts of strange attractors and phase transitions. He concludes by exploring double loop learning and providing an illustrative comparison between Legos and Play-Doh to better understand complex systems.

00:02 Introduction and Welcome

00:38 Understanding Complexity vs Complication

04:05 Embracing Complexity and Chaos

06:04 The Role of Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight in Complexity

09:47 The Value of Chaos and the Concept of Strange Attractors

13:28 Phase Transition and Double Loop Learning

19:07 Visualizing Complexity vs Complication: Legos and Play Doh

23:35 Conclusion and Invitation for Further Learning