How to Innovate Inside Your Company | Thomas Anglero

basketball trainer, uh, from, uh, New York City. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr. Thomas Anglero. Whenever I'm introduced and they say— always bring up my past in Scotland, I always go, "Oh my God!" I wanted to begin with sharing with you an experience I had on the way to the conference. So is it okay if I start off a little slow? Anybody want to hug somebody right now? On the way to the conference, I was passing by the Hotel Continental. And everybody knows the Hotel Continental, very ritzy, home and colon type hotel, right? And in front of the Hotel Continental, they only allow Mercedes and Bentleys and beautiful expensive cars. And there in front of the Hotel Continental was a beautiful convertible Jaguar. And as I'm walking by the hotel, in front of me was a man in a wheelchair and his wife was pushing him. And all of a sudden, the man in the wheelchair Wheeled away from his wife, and she let go. And he wheeled all the way to the curb, slowly went down off the curb, wheeled himself in front of the jaguar, right beside the jaguar. And then he looked at his wife, and his wife, and wife's like, "What is he doing?" And even I stopped, I go, "What is he doing?" And all of a sudden, as he's standing along the side of the jaguar, he just puts his hands up in the wheelchair in midair, goes like this, and he just smiles at his wife. And she's like, "What?" And then he goes, "So she changes her perspective, and there she sees that at that moment he fulfilled his lifelong dream. He's driving the Jaguar." Think about that. Just by changing your perspective, right now, right where you are, you can fulfill your lifelong dream. Isn't that powerful? So many of us have excuses. So many of us say, oh no, this doesn't happen to me because of this, this is happening because of this. It's all bull. Change your perspective. You ready to up the tempo? Was that too soft? Let me give you another story. How many of you went drinking when you were in college? Raise your hand. Okay, if you drunk in college, you don't raise your hands. Let us— how many went drinking in college? There we go. How many of you went drinking in college or you spent the night with someone you weren't supposed to when you woke up the next morning someplace else? Raise your hand. Two people? How come the population of Norway is 5 million people? Let me ask again. How many people got drunk in college and woke up in some bed someplace else? Raise your hand with pride! Come on! You'll be divorced tomorrow, but be happy right now. When you woke up the next morning and you woke up from that sofa that you, you know, you crashed on your friend's sofa, you got up from the sofa, what did you guys go? You know, you guys are Norwegians, you got up and you go, "Oh, uff, oh my." "Oh, this is shikmigufest." I speak Norwegian, by the way, if you can't pick that up. Do you know what happened 7 years ago? 7 years ago, a young millennial, same as you guys, got drunk, spent the night on a sofa, and he stood up in the morning, and instead of him thinking about what a great time he had last night, he looked at that sofa And he said, "Everyone should have a place to sleep." That was the creation of which company? Airbnb. Did you know that? That was 7 years ago. How old are you guys? When were you get drunk? When was that time you got drunk and spent the night on that person's sofa? Anybody want to yell out what decade that was? In the '80s? That's not bad. Think about it. This— I'm trying to embarrass you. It's about changing your perspective. Why is it— was 7 years ago when this kid got off the sofa the same thing you did back in the '80s? In reality, some of you, I look at you, the '70s? '60s? We'll leave it alone. You had how many decades to create a billion-dollar company? Why didn't you? When you got off the sofa, what were you thinking about? "Oh, last night, oh, I was a superstar at that party. I was dancing on the table in the Hitta." Raise your hand if you danced on the table in the Hitta. Nobody! Okay, there we go. Slowly they go up. The akhavit set in, you know? My point, my point is this, is that literally it's a change of perspective. I go around the world traveling and talking to CEOs and leader groups all over the world doing exactly this. For 25 years I've been in IT and telecom, blah blah blah, did startups, I've done all that. My startup's gone up, failed, gone up, failed. I got all the scars. At the end of the day, it's not a new app, it's not a new innovation project that's going to save your life. What's going to save your life is you. That's my tech talk. I'm being dead serious. As I go around, you know, these CEOs, "Thomas, we're doing quite well, we need a new project, IBM's very innovative." Are you innovative? Do you guys know what the cost of innovation is? The cost of innovation— you know when you're innovative? When everyone hates you. Think about it. If you're truly innovative, if you're the first person at this very moment right now, you had an epiphany and no one else in the world has ever had that idea, you're the only one who's ever connected all those dots, does anybody understand what the hell you're talking about? Nye. But in society, especially 5 minutes before you guys go to lunch, what do you guys do before you go to lunch? Let's pick on Norwegians right now. 5 minutes before you go to lunch, what do Norwegians do? Skalvis fiskesamens, skalvis fiskesamens, skalvis fiskesamens. Don't you? No one wants to go to lunch alone. And then when you go to the cantina and you're having lunch and there's a guy or a woman eating all by themselves, you know, and they don't see anything, they're in their own world, and you're all with your kumpis and all your friends and everything, and you look at that person and you're like, "What's wrong with him?" He has an idea. He has a thought that's never been thought before. He has a passion, a drive. He wants to change the world, or she wants to change the world. He doesn't see that he's alone at the cafeteria. He's obsessed with his thoughts. This thing, no matter what the cost, must come to life. And yet everyone else, society says, "We must be together," and if you're all by yourself, you're a weirdo. And yet those are the people that change the world. All of you are top leaders, and every time I meet with you, all of you, all of you realize, where were your margins 5 years ago? Over here? Where are your margins today? It's reality. Things are changing. All the presentations you got this morning. Things are changing, dynamically changing. In the history of all your time, things have always gone good, good, good. I do this, I make this list, don't make too many decisions, I get a promotion, everything is fine, da da da. It doesn't work today. Kids, millennials wake up from a sofa, 7 years later they're worth a billion dollars. On the same damn sofa you slept on. Why aren't you worth a billion dollars? Because you haven't changed your perspective. You don't challenge yourself. And yet you go to your people, "We gotta create an innovation team and you guys, you know, come up with some new solutions and then we have— you present to me in the leader group and then we decide." Is that innovation? Sounds familiar? Yes or no? Yes. Innovation comes from within. Are you ready to take and hear an answer? Hear something that challenges your exact belief in life, that that stinky, dirty sofa is worth more than every hotel chain in the world, would you have said yes to that idea? No. Yes or no? Give me a call. Do you understand the cost of innovation? My background— he talked about being from New York. Let me tell you something. I don't talk this way because I'm American. I talk this way because I love all of you. I've been living in Norway for 20 years, and there's nothing more that I want all of you to succeed, but you have got to get over this "jamtologen" stuff. Stop the yom tolovim. When you wake up in the morning, everybody, get into that morning mode. Everybody there? Close your eyes if you have to. Nobody's going to touch you. This is Norway, we don't do that. I promise not to do Trump jokes, I won't do that. You wake up in the morning, and in that first moment, everybody, when you wake up and your eyes are open but you sort of wake up, everybody remember that feeling from this morning? Don't you feel fantastic? You haven't thought about work, you haven't thought about the idiot laying next to you. That's what my wife calls me. You haven't worried about getting the kids to barnahaga. You're, you're just in that morning bliss. You are you. Everybody remember that? Everybody? Yes? Doesn't it feel fantastic? That's the real you. How long does that feeling last? Hours? A few seconds, right? A few seconds. And then all of a sudden, "Oh, I gotta make breakfast. Oh, I gotta get ready for work. Oh, I gotta answer that email." And you go into work mode, you go into work mode. And then you go to work, that's 8 or 10— no, Norway's not 8 hours, like 6.2 hours, right? And on a Friday, how many hours is it? I love Norwegian jokes. You guys are easy. You go to work, you come home from work, and you're still thinking about work. You also got to drive the kids to practice, come back and forth and all that. And then finally it's time to go to, you know, you watch some Netflix maybe, but you're You're still thinking, and then you're still not yourself. And then you go to bed, you go to sleep, and you're asleep, you're not yourself. At the end of those 24 hours, how much of that time were you truly you? A few seconds. A few seconds. And during the day, you go to work, you wonder, how come people don't see me? How come people don't love me? How come my boss doesn't see how fantastic I am? How come I'm not getting a promotion? How come I'm not getting dates? How come this? How come that? How come this? How come that? Because we don't see you. That's you. That's it. That's the true you. And when you go to work, you put on all this coat of paint because society doesn't allow me to do this. I can't behave this way. I can't do that. This is you, and we've never seen you. Have you ever looked at your life that way? Yes or no? Yes or no? Do you understand? I am right now freeing, breaking the chains. I'm freeing all you to be you. Damn it, be you! Oh, it's loud as hell, isn't it? Sorry. Please be you. No one's ever met you. We want to love you, but we don't know who you are. We want to give you a promotion, but we don't know who you are. Anybody get that? Does anybody want to go hug somebody right now? One thing I see in IBM as I travel around the world is that there's opportunity everywhere. And you men, there's a lot of men in this audience, and I love you all. And a lot of you men aren't used to hearing the word love. And I love using the word love. Though I've learned that you don't say "ya el skedai" unless you really mean "ya el skedai." Learn to love each other. Learn to embrace that love. This is the new way to work. As I travel around the world, the corporations that are excelling, the corporations that are going and moving the fastest, are embracing love. Can you guys do that? Because everybody's very quiet. Everybody's thinking. What's coming, what's happening in the world of artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence, these supercomputers, they read 10 million pages a second. This is not going to be a konkurrenza, this is not a competition. The way you're all going to survive and the way you're going to blow up and the way we're going to succeed as a society is that the computers are— let's go back to your college days. Everybody ready to go back to college days? Do you remember when you were drunk and that person knocked on the door and said, hey, let's go out for a pils? Everybody remember that? Remember that version of you that should have stood there studying? That's the AI. That's the artificial intelligence. It's just that version of you that didn't go out drinking, that didn't say yes to him or her. It remembers everything. And so what, what you should do, which you should embrace the AI and say, AI, you know everything. Me, I'm connected to everyone. I, I Do you see where the future is? Do you see where the now is? The only way you're going to excel is you being the ultimate version of you. So let me give you one powerful— this is really shikurim, but I can't help it, but it's one of the things that's in my head, and I think it's the most powerful thing I can give anybody. Hold your own Bullshit. Every time you say, you know, I can't do that because, uh, maybe because I'm overweight, I want you to step aside and look at yourself and go, bullshit. Every time you give yourself an excuse for not doing something, for not— you're top leaders and you're all your clients, right? So your top leaders in these companies, you want to give people opportunities, but you're feeling uncomfortable. They come with a great idea, I don't get it. This makes me feel uncomfortable. This, this makes absolutely no sense. A sofa? Invest in a sofa? Call your own bullshit. Do what you know is right. Do what you know is love-based. This is the most powerful thing I see globally around the world, and I'm IBM talking about it. Anybody respected that from IBM? Welcome to the new idea. And that's it for the blog. I can't emphasize enough, the secret to everything is you. Be you. Repeat after me. Don't say be you. I want you to say Be myself. Be myself. Be myself. We're not at church, okay? Be myself. Be myself. Is that how you feel when you're proposing to her? You know, you're like, be myself. It doesn't work. Come on! Your company is struggling. A bunch of innovative millennials come into your office with a crazy idea. Everything inside you says, "This thing absolutely makes no sense," but you know, you know something is there. At that moment, you have to be myself. Let's go! Be myself! You wake up in the morning and that idiot next to you— Everybody has an idiot next to them, raise your hand. How many divorces we're gonna have in the next 10 minutes? Set you guys up. You wake up in the morning with the Iyyad next to you. It's not going well in the marriage. You haven't talked in a long time, but you know that if you don't communicate, things won't work. At that moment, what you got to be? Be myself. Come on. No one listens to me, no one sees me, but I'm going to be myself. Go on! Be myself! This side of the room is dying. You guys need help. Listen to me, I'm being dead serious. You have to forget. You can't think, oh, what is the person to my left and to my right going to do? You cannot live life that way. You cannot do that. All of the things that are coming— look at all the innovation you've seen today. All innovation is coming all over the world. You're gonna have to get used to being uncomfortable. And when you're at your maximum amount of uncomfortable, that's when you gotta be— be myself. You wanna be myself? Go on, stand up! Come on, this room sucks! Stand the hell up, you guys! Stand the hell up! Come on, forget Norway! Come on, be myself! Be myself! Be myself! Be myself! Use your arms! God gave you arms! This is your moment where you say to hell with everybody, don't look at me, I am in love with this guy on stage! Be myself! Be myself! Horner, be myself! Be myself! I love you. Thank you very much. I love you, and I brought you some flowers. Thank you very much. We could, uh, meet in the back room now. Thomas Anglero. Foi o grande herói, não é? Skylanders, o homem fixo na Terra. O Endelo foi o grande sniper do filme. Bom, vamos focar melhor ali que eu já lembro o nome do homem que vocês estão pensando. Ele é um dos caras de Narnia, o besta, o mestre, é o Tio Tio, que eu já falei sobre ele.