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“Change Is An Endeavor, It’s A Real Enterprise”
Here are a few quotes from a Harvard Business Review conversation with Twyla Tharp. These sweat beads of wisdom go beyond art. She captures the essentials of any dedicated endeavor. “…everyone can be creative, but you have to prepare for it with routine. There’s no other way around it. It’s an absolute mistake to think that art is not practical—or that business cannot be creative....
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Innovation Workshop With Columbus
After returning from discovering America Columbus was honored in a series of celebrations. At one such party he was criticized by a gentleman who said: “What’s the big deal, anyone sailing west could have found America”. Columbus went and fetched a cooked egg and challenged all those present to balance the egg on its sharp end. One after the other they tried but they all...
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Collaborative Innovation – The Serendipity Effect
Here are Central themes in the conversation of the Davos CEO Forum about Collaborative Innovation. What happens when you bring people together and they learn to understand and trust each other? How do you connect with different viewpoints to capture disruptive and innovative opportunities? What collective intelligence and brain power can be unleashed in a collaborative environment? How do organizations operate in a “meshed up”...
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Innovation Requires “Whole-Brain” Not Just “Right-Brain”
The Economist writes intriguingly about Evan Williams the founder of Blogger and Twitter: “Williams accidentally stumbled upon three insights. First, that genuinely new ideas are, well, accidentally stumbled upon rather than sought out; second, that new ideas are by definition hard to explain to others, because words can express only what is already known; and third, that good ideas seem obvious in retrospect.” The Economist...
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Jeff Bezos Strategy Retreat
Jeff Bezos hopes to “outbook the book” with Kindle – Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device. If you are involved in the cutting edge of technology and business you would want to watch Bezos conversation with Charlie Rose (posted here below) for the following four reasons: 1. Bezos’ narrative about where we are in the Internet revolution says we are clearly only in its early days....
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“Innovation, Not Love Makes the World Go Round”
The Economist special report on innovation: “Something new under the sun” quotes John Dryden of the OECD: “We firmly believe that innovation, not love, makes the world go round.” Dryden makes an important point but misses the bigger point. The bigger point is that the driver of innovation is love and passion. What drives innovation is the love of new ideas and new solutions. It’s...
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