Think Differently, Lead Boldly: Rick Beaton’s Guide to Thriving in Complexity

Divergent thinking and courageous alternative perspective sharing is what’s needed to transform organizations, challenge the status quo, and evolve our human systems so people and organizations can thrive and flourish. 

Our problems will not be solved with the same thinking that created them. 
 
Our current systems of education, business, and politics are broken because they were designed as technical systems instead of human systems. They do not work for the complexity of human beings, and as we’ve moved into a post-industrial age we need new perspectives and ways of thinking.
 
And we need people who can help us think differently, challenge our assumptions, and offer alternative perspectives.

Rick Beaton, CEO of Motis, works with clients to help them reveal how they can evolve the human systems within their organizations so that companies can achieve their business goals and people can flourish and thrive in the workplace.

Rick joins us to share his superpower, a Kaleidoscope of Perspectives, which is the ability to see the world through a multitude of filters based on a diverse set of experiences. Rick is able to see and hear things differently that most people and share them back as a gift to others.

In addition to a variety of experiences, Rick pulls on a vast background of systems-thinking, neurobiology, technology, academia, philanthropy, and music to inform his perspectives. 

In this episode, Rick answers the following questions:
 - How to shift thinking with divergent view points? 
 - How to help people flourish and thrive in business? 
 - How to think differently / out of the box?
 - What are the positives from offering different perspectives?

My favorite quote from the episode: “The whole structure of organizations are based on ‘why would you trust anybody?’”

What I know to be true about the episode: I am impressed with Rick’s humility and measured approach, and realization that although he might know the answers for his clients, he knows that they need to discover the correct answers for themselves.   

What I learned from the episode: Rick talks about the difference between knowledge and wisdom, and the latter comes from knowledge learned, unlearned, and relearned through a diversity of experience that only comes with time and a willingness to enter the discomfort of new experiences that stretch us.

Resources mentioned in the episode: 

- Rick’s company Motis
- Book: “Don’t Step on the Rope” by Walter Wright 
- Book: “The Speed of Trust” by Stephen M. R. Covey 

Music in this episode created by Ian Kastner. 

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is a series of conversations where I speak with interesting people about their special talent or superhero power and the meaningful impact it has on others. The intention is to learn more about their experience with their superpower, so that we can learn something about the special talent in each of us which allows us to connect more deeply with our purpose and achieve our potential. 

For more info about the podcast or to check out more episodes, go to: https://whatdoyouknowtobetrue.com/ 

"What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go&