The 10X Principle applied to leadership is a key component of this community leadership development. The essential idea is that 10X symbolizes the process of engaging a vision so large that the present way of thinking and acting cannot fulfil it.

While honouring what has already been established, 10X thinking requires creative leaps beyond what already exists, including disrupting what is now working to achieve what is aspired to and can be imagined. One of the core assumptions in this approach is that individually and collectively, we have the vision within us that will exponentially accelerate our ability to generate powerful outcomes.

Gene’s practice of 10X thinking and action was inspired by his time in Silicon Valley as co-founder of Genomic Health, a break-through company in personalised medicine that produced the first genomic diagnostic test to effectively assess the risk of recurrence of breast cancer.

The concept of 10X is familiar to venture capital investors’ thinking in terms of their investment returns. It has been further extended in the technology space by mold-breaking entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk CEO of Space-X and Tesla, Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil from Singularity University, and other companies such as Uber and Airbnb. And we are now extending it in the context of leadership and community development.