STADIUMS:
A THOUGHT ABOUT THINKING By Guy Hedderwick, AEVP
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we process information and ideas, good judgement, and making ac- curate predications depends on your mindset.
I am often asked, in my position as CEO of Arena Stadium Management, what I do with my day. I go into the ramble about driving the strategic direction of our business and ensuring every creating a culture and an environment where people can prosper. I do all that, but in reality, I also do a lot of thinking. I study the data, the budget, and trends in the business to create a clear and compel- of my job is about thinking. In order to be successful, one needs to you ever thought about thinking? Have you ever thought why you think the way you do? What
drives you to accept one opinion over another? What kind of thinker are you? What drives your thought process? Are you mak- ing some fundamental errors along the way? and her book The Soldier and the Scout has certainly taught me a great deal about it. She describes what it is like to be a soldier. Your adrenalin is
side (team), your actions stem from your training, which are deep three months of basic training, during my time in the army, and then a further three months of intense battle-ready training. We had to be able to respond to situations under huge amounts of kicked in, and it did.
there to attack or defend. A scout’s duty is to understand, to map the territory, identify obstacles, and know what is really there. In an army, both types of people are essential. If we think of them as a mindset and a metaphor for how we collect and process infor- mation in our daily lives, we can understand the importance that each a scout and a soldier play in any organisation or team. How
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Alfred Dreyfus was a major in the French Army. The French found that they had a spy within their ranks sharing secrets with the Ger- mans when a torn piece of paper was discovered in a waste paper bin. They settled on Dreyfus being the culprit, mainly based on the fact that he was Jewish, and there was a great deal of anti-Semitism in the French army at that stage. They compared the hand writing - perts said it didn’t. They interviewed Dreyfus’ teachers who said he studied foreign languages, which they found convenient that he could concluded that he was both clever and sneaky. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment on the aptly named island, Devils Rock. Galef argues that this type of thinking, which led to Dreyfus being imprisoned, is a soldier mindset or motivated reason- ing, where the investigators were motivated to get a result regardless of the evidence. She likens it to a sports ref making a call against your team, and your resultant motivation to conclude that it was a bad call, or why, if you read a research paper, that is a certain pro stance that you do not agree with, your motivation is to shoot down Fortunately for Dreyfus, a Colonel called Picquant, who was also causally anti-Semitic, noticed that even after Dreyfus was jailed, the spying continued. He found a soldier whose handwriting matched his superiors to take his concerns seriously. He even spent time in jail due to disloyalty trying to prove Dreyfus innocent, which after 10 and the truth were more important than his own opinions. She says the scout mindset is what is required for good judgement. The prob- lem is our mindset is based on an emotional response rather than logic. The scout mindset is curious, open and grounded. The scout wants to see what is real rather than what is convenient or pleasant intelligence or IQ, it’s about how you feel. want to build a ship, don’t drum up your men to collect wood and give orders and distribute the work. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Improving our judgment as individuals or societies requires us to change the way we feel. We need to be proud - She asks a simple but profound question, “What do you yearn
for?” Do you yearn for seeking to uphold your own beliefs or do you
yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can? I invite you to think about thinking. FM
Guy Hedderwick, AEVP, is CEO of Arena Stadium Management Pty Ltd., Titanium Security Arena in Findon, Australia.
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