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Whitney Hess ❦ @whitneyhess

մեe Truth About Me

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I’m amazed at the position I find myself

in today

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IA Summit ’09: My first public solo presentation

IA Summit ’08: My first IA Summit

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IA Summit Closing Plenaries:

2005 - Andrew Dillon 2006 - Peter Merholz2007 - Rashmi Sinha2008 - Andrew Hinton2009 - Jesse James Garrett2010 - Whitney Hess

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IA Summit Closing Plenaries:

2005 - Andrew Dillon 2006 - Peter Merholz2007 - Rashmi Sinha2008 - Andrew Hinton2009 - Jesse James Garrett2010 - Whitney Hess WTF!

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I don’t need you to tell me

how green I am

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Synchronicitybrought me here

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{Who I Am Who I Want to Be

My pursuit of happiness

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gapingvoid.com

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մեe Tribe

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You are not alone

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Egos: few

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“If I have seen further it is by standing upon the

shoulders of giants.”

– Isaac Newton

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Who is your mentor?

Who calls you their mentor?

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“Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person

– hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre –

into an outstanding performer.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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Love

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Do what you love in the service of people who love what you do

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Is this your job or your passion?

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Why do you care?

Why are you here?

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Workvs.

Life’s work

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մեis isn’t a job, it’s a calling

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Our Common Mission

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We help people enhance their own lives

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մեe Butterfly Effect

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We want to change the world

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If you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere,

you better wake up and pay attention

– Sister Act 2

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Wake-Up Call

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It’s not about you(or us)

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We design systems that enable more

successful behaviors, but we don’t make them.

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“Like so many brilliant people, [we] believe that

ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains

– ideas show where the bulldozers should go.”

– Hugh MacLeod

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It’s time to focus our energy outside of the UX tribe,

to become recognized leaders to makers & management

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How do we gain influence?

Over our companies, colleagues and clients

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“մեe price of greatness is responsibility.”

– Winston Churchill

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Source unknown

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What’s Holding Us

Back?

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We heroize the tools

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A fancy tool is just a pillar to hide behind

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We limit ourselves

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We accommodate out of guilt. We attack out of anger.

We avoid out of fear.

– William Ury

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We’re afraid to be wrong

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You screw up every day and everyone

already knows it.

But do you admit it?

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Celebrate Fear

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Fear is growth

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Love hurts

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Live in pursuit of the OSM(Oh Shit Moment)

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Fail magnificently

(Love demands that you do)

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“Not doing it – when you know full well

you had the opportunity – that hurts far more than

any failure.”

– Hugh MacLeod

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Perfection ≠ Credibility

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մեis is my biggest OSM

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Promote Inclusion

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Recognize the destructive impact

of your words

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“If you try to dominate people,

you are already defeated.”

– Terry Dobson, master of Aikido

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Be assertive without being aggressive

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“Your intellectual arrogance is causing

disabling ignorance.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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All human beings have a basic need to be

recognized

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We Need To Lead

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Chutzpah(a.k.a. audacity)

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Conviction

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Adaptability

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Act As If

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True leaders inspire others to lead

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Our Legacy

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Some say they have20 years’ experience,

when all they really have is one year’s experience,

repeated 20 times.

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Can your company succeed without you?

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Can your company succeed without you?

(No? Are you proud of that?)

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What is our legacy?

(Is it outside this room?)

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Let’s not be a footnote in a technology textbook

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Our legacy rests on all of our shoulders

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մեank you.

մեe Radical Leap by Steve Farberմեe Radical Edge by Steve Farberմեe Power of a Positive No by William UryIgnore Everybody by Hugh MacLeodManaging Oneself by Peter F. Drucker

Whitney Hess [email protected]

http://whitneyhess.com@whitneyhess