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Working through Dyslexia and Using its Gifts
Do you deal with learning and work challenges?
• Dyslexic Inconsistency
• Dyscalculia
• Backwards and Non-linear thinking
• The way your brain processes information
• Bi-Polar issues
• A chronology of Dysfunction
• Overwhelming obstacles
Tim Nelson has dealt with these and more and gives hope and direction for help and encouragement. He unwraps gifts such as:
• Technical Problem-Solving Process
• Standard Work
• Visual Math
• Ambidextrous Thinking
• Paradigms
• and 10 other Dyslexic gifts and skills
Don't hide your uniquenesses. Declare them as the gifts that they are and learn how to use them to your benefit
Tall Poppies -Billie Flynn
Published on: Apr 5, 2023|Categories: Aerospace
Imagine You are Standing in a Red Poppy Field
I was interviewed on a Podcast hosted by ‘View Point’
highlighting the skills of my friend Tim Nelson, discussing
his skills as a Tall Poppy.
Tim Nelson – Billie Flyn – Dyslexia and Billion Dollar
Solutions.mp4
In our organizations, big and small, we often normalize the
performance and behavior of our personnel, excluding
those who stand out from the norm. Organizations do not
typically encourage outliers and find it much easier to
manage everyone if they are all relatively the same. That
is certainly true in the Military and throughout the civilian
business world, especially in the aerospace sector.
The ’Tall Poppy Syndrome’ refers to cutting down the tall growing flowers so that the field of flowers are all uniform
and the same height. Our cultures do this with those
colleagues who do not naturally conform to the
organizational behavior that has been established in our
places of work.
The problem is that these outliers who
don’t conveniently fit into the norm, may possess unique
skills and capabilities needed to help our organizations
excel and succeed.
We all love the rock star performers who can solve the
unsolvable, succeed against insane odds and triumph
when people think that there is no hope. HR departments
hate the people who are not like the rest of the gang and
diminish or ostracize the ‘one off’s who don’t behave like
everyone else.
The Tall Poppy Syndrome certainly applies to the outliers
who I know; at the top of the list is my former colleague
and close friend, Tim Nelson. Tim and I were both
appointed as Lockheed Martin Technical Fellows, an honor
bestowed on less than 1% of the engineering world when
we worked there together. I was the Lockheed Martin
Fellow as the expert in Flight Test and Tim Nelson was the
Fellow for ‘Red X’ as a problem solver. Tim had many,
many patents to his name, could mentor and coach better
than anyone on the techniques to solve unique and
seemingly unsolvable difficult technical problems.
However, Tim was a Tall Poppy. His gift was his dyslexia
that gave him the ability to view problems in a non-linear
fashion and to see things through images, not words or
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linearly as the rest of us think. Tim’s gift allowed him to
process a problem from back to front, seeing what needed
to be done and working back the steps to solve and lead a
team to succeed. Tim had been recognized for this unique
gift which really aided the giant aerospace firm working
through many engineering issues of the F-35 program, the
largest defense contract in history. Every problem solved
meant money, resources and time saved and Tim was
superb at contributing to this effort. The problem was that
Tim was a Tall Poppy and did not fit into the norm, which
really disturbed some of his superiors.
I wonder what would have happened if the gifted stars
with dyslexia like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Muhammad
Ali, and Steven Spielberg, were marginalized before they
could succeed in their fields. I love Tall Poppies. They are
often the only ones who can solve the unsolvable. I spent
so much of my professional life in organizations that were
intolerant of anyone outside of the norm, yet I have been
so blessed to know and work with those Tall Poppies who
changed the world including my friend Tim Nelson. We
should all look up and see the gifts that everyone brings to
the table and not be so judgmental when everyone
doesn’t look or behave precisely the same way.
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