Found this presentation that has a good representation of ADHD. The actua presentation is about Branding or Brands, but it literal puts ADHD/Right Brained into perspective.

You can read presentation here. Their are several slides but an average of about 5 words per slide.

You can skip to slide 28 to see the stuff I referenced above. Slide 29 shows those with left brains and those with right brains. Currently society and school systems (which the U.S. got from Germany) only reward those on the left (left brains) vs. on the right (right brained). But as we see in business, if you focus on the left so much the company will fail. The U.S is now feeling those affects, well those companies who have failed to reward those of us with Right Brains.

The problem is in order to succeed (as referenced in the slides) is that you have to have both those with right and left brains. I do disagree with the strategy setters though, as to be good leaders you need to have vision and to be successful in business your products need to have a great experience, aka intuitive, emotional, touchy feely. Those with Right brains need to set strategy and direction, as well as, decide the products features and experience. Implementation and follow through is what Left Brained people are good at.

Where the U.S. companies are struggling are that because of the level of technology available, such as the ability to mass produce with CNC machines, plastic laser printing, and programming langauges like Ruby on Rails, where products can be created in days and on the cheap, is that Left Brains are not as need any more. Thus removing the barriers needed to build things, skilled labor.

It is now easier to replace the analytical than the creative people. Sure those with Left Brains have the same access to those mass production capabilities, but they will mass produce products that are just a bunch of non-creative features into a product, aka Ford, GM, Motorola phones, Dell computers…etc. In order to sell these they have to sell them for cheap, which sooner or later they will go out of business.

Anyway, I digress. When you are down about your ADHD or your childs, look at slide 40, remember black sheep are good. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad about yourself or your children.

Whether you like them or not, here are some black sheep…. Eminem/Slim Shady, Einstein, Virgin Airlines/Virgin Mobile, Apple, Obama, iphone, Madonna, Ozzy Osborne, Dennis Rodman, Michael Jordan (he has ADHD or Dyslexia can’t remember which one; both Right Brained) ….. no they don’t all probably have ADHD, but they do stand out.

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE!