SEALA 1, DAY 8
Negotiation skills are vital to the successful leader. Jim sets the stage for a negotiation game that will test and exercise those skills. Three pairs of teams will compete with one another in a multi-round format: Star versus Fish; Sea versus Horse; and Coral versus Snake.
Negotiation skills are vital to the successful leader. Jim sets the stage for a negotiation game that will test and exercise those skills. Three pairs of teams will compete with one another in a multi-round format: Star versus Fish; Sea versus Horse; and Coral versus Snake.
Coral versus Snake rapidly descend into a pattern of lose-lose bids against one another. But unbeknownst to them, so does everybody else.
Anthony leads a discussion how to reverse the nose-dive.
Sea versus Horse. Vickie acts as runner, communicating the rival team's bids.
Gloria plays the same role for the other side.
Bill coordinates the scores at the Central Intelligence Gathering Station. SEALA Board Member Ashok Mittal (left) looks on.
Down....
down....
down....
down.
Time for some face-to-face meetings to stop the rot. Each team dispatches its representatives to parley with their rivals in the corridor.
Star versus Fish chart out a common endgame, using a coin toss to determine the eventual division of the money pot between the winning and losing teams.
Sea versus Horse amicably agree to split the winnings at the end of the day and go out to dinner together. (But what restaurant and what kind of food to eat – still to be negotiated.)
Coral versus Snake similarly predetermine which team will emerge victorious and how the loser will be compensated, assuming trust and good faith are maintained.
Well played, all!
Capstone Project: "Cover Story SEALA." The year is 2019, and a major magazine is featuring SEALA on its cover. How might the seeds planted at SEALA 1 blossom into achievements that could capture the attention of a global publication?
The first group extrapolated from the intraregional people-to-people connections that SEALA fosters, building confidence and trust across borders and eliminating stereotypes.
Indian Prime Minister Navnath Tarle (SEALA 1) signs the 2019 "No War Pact" with his Pakistani counterpart.
Television host Piers Morgan, making a guest appearance from Pakistan, introduced and interviewed the laureates.
The third group focused on SEALA's ability to combine ideas and best practices from different professional sectors, and creatively targeting them in unprecedented ways at needed projects across the region.
The fourth group recognized SEALA to be promoting a breakthrough business concept, so radically fruitful that by 2019 it had informed new thinking about economic development, interdisciplinary learning, network design and ecosystems in learned journals ranging from Harvard Business Review to the Journal of Applied Mathematics.
They also coined SEALA's most memorable tagline, based on the function of nebulae in the universe: "formations of gas, dust, and other materials 'clump' together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become massive enough to form stars." Thus they are "pillars of creation" and, like SEALA, a nebula is a Nursery of Stars.
The fifth group indentified SEALA's potential as a Sustainable Education And Life Access program.
Bringing together SEALA's resources, like-minded people and a shared noble cause, the program has helped to encourage and educate over one million girls by 2019, working to the credo, "If you educate a man you educate an individual. If you educate a woman you educate a nation."
Evening roundtable sessions:
Parth Amin (CEO, SLK software) is Chairman of the SEALA Board. He shares his experiences in entrepreneurial start-ups.
SEALA Board Member from Pakistan, Saad Amanullah Khan (CEO, Gilette Pakistan) has also joined us in Chennai today.
The first group extrapolated from the intraregional people-to-people connections that SEALA fosters, building confidence and trust across borders and eliminating stereotypes.
Indian Prime Minister Navnath Tarle (SEALA 1) signs the 2019 "No War Pact" with his Pakistani counterpart.
The second group celebrated the award of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize to SEALA members who had leveraged the network to create GEM (Girls' Education Movement) to educate millions of girls across nine South and Southeast Asian countries.
Television host Piers Morgan, making a guest appearance from Pakistan, introduced and interviewed the laureates.
The third group focused on SEALA's ability to combine ideas and best practices from different professional sectors, and creatively targeting them in unprecedented ways at needed projects across the region.
By 2019, SEALA has mobilized the resources to catalyze the formation of schools and rural health care establishements, to inspire women's empowerment schemes, to restore historical monuments and protect important ecological niches.
The fourth group recognized SEALA to be promoting a breakthrough business concept, so radically fruitful that by 2019 it had informed new thinking about economic development, interdisciplinary learning, network design and ecosystems in learned journals ranging from Harvard Business Review to the Journal of Applied Mathematics.
They also coined SEALA's most memorable tagline, based on the function of nebulae in the universe: "formations of gas, dust, and other materials 'clump' together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become massive enough to form stars." Thus they are "pillars of creation" and, like SEALA, a nebula is a Nursery of Stars.
Bringing together SEALA's resources, like-minded people and a shared noble cause, the program has helped to encourage and educate over one million girls by 2019, working to the credo, "If you educate a man you educate an individual. If you educate a woman you educate a nation."
Evening roundtable sessions:
Parth Amin (CEO, SLK software) is Chairman of the SEALA Board. He shares his experiences in entrepreneurial start-ups.
SEALA Board Member from Pakistan, Saad Amanullah Khan (CEO, Gilette Pakistan) has also joined us in Chennai today.
Sayeed Cassim (Owner, Cassim Unlimited) addresses the topic of learning from one's mistakes and setbacks.
Another beautiful SEALA day has come to an end.
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