The E3 Framework: Explore, Experiment, Evolve

Potential Leader Lab

Perry Maughmer presents the E3 Framework—a thought-provoking navigational tool for potential leaders that comprises three stages: Explore, Experiment, and Evolve.

This E3 Framework encourages potential leaders to approach challenges and opportunities with a blend of exploration, experimentation, and evolution, focusing on the journey of development over arriving at a fixed destination.

Top Takeaways

The Learning vs. Winning Approach**: Understanding that entering conversations with the aim to learn rather than to win can lead to more constructive outcomes.

The Importance of Reflective Thinking**: Reflective thinking is critical as it allows individuals to consider the broader implications and meanings of their actions and experiences.

Continuous Evolution**: Emphasizing that evolution is an ongoing process informed by feedback, which requires making intentional choices to adapt and improve continuously.

Adopting Multiple Personas**: The "Explore, Experiment, Evolve" framework involves adopting the personas of an Explorer, Scientist, and Philosopher, shifting flexibly among them to navigate different stages of personal growth and learning.

The Concept of Antifragility**: Building a personal or organizational structure that gains from disorder, much like the immune system, rather than merely resisting shocks.

Low-Risk Experimentation**: Addressing the importance of managing risks when trying new behaviors or strategies, and understanding the relationship between risk and potential reward.

Philosophical Mindset for Growth**: Approaching life with curiosity, critical thinking, and a readiness to challenge assumptions.

Self-Transcendence and Service**: Recognizing that the highest level of human development, according to Maslow, is self-transcendence, which involves moving beyond self-interest to serve others and is a crucial part of leadership.

The Importance of Reflection: "It involves approaching life and questions with curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to challenge our assumptions. It makes us take time to ponder." — Perry Maughmer

Memorable Moments

00:00 Continually update biases and assumptions, gain clarity.

05:45 Describing roles aligning with steps of Explore, Experiment, Evolve.

07:58 Prepare, don't plan; embrace the antifragility concept.

11:34 Earning the right to continue an infinite game.

16:22 Judge behavior based on evolutionary alignment and outcomes.

18:37 Brains wired to find similarities, leaders must question.

22:05 Philosophic mindset: curiosity, critical thinking, pondering.

25:34 Argue to learn, not just to win.

Perry Maughmer believes the world deserves better leadership; that in every human interaction there is the opportunity to either build others up or tear them down; and that leadership is the choice we make in those moments.

These beliefs led Perry to create the Potential Leader Lab. He wanted to offer those who share his beliefs the space and safety to explore transformative ideas, experiment with new behaviors, and evolve into the leaders they were meant to be and that the world needs.

This is a framework he has used again and again with his Vistage peer advisory groups and companies like Turn-Key Tunneling, Convergint, Haughn & Associates, I Am Boundless, Ketchum & Walton, LSP Technologies, and Ahlum & Arbor.

Perry lives and works on the shores of Buckeye Lake in Ohio, in the mountains of northwest Georgia, and on the beach in Anna Maria, Florida with his amazingly creative wife Lisa. They have 2 rescue dogs and are intermittently visited by their 3 wonderful children throughout the year. Perry & Lisa are living life in crescendo and focused on exploring, experimenting, and evolving their vision of a life they have no desire to retire from.

Copyright 2024 Perry Maughmer