“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” — Jeff Bezos This study in Infant Behaviour and Development…
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Inspired to Innovate:
inspiration_by_harizmaart_d52ttw2-fullview.jpg “There is something unpredictable about beauty. You cannot organise or plan the moment when the right inspiration will come to you.” — Carlo Pignataro, EP 200, the Innovation Show In his autobiography, U2 frontman Bono shares…
Asymmetry Pays in Business and Life
A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town. None of them knew of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: “We must…
White Space for Innovation V 100% Billable Time: Whole-Brain Thinking
“That’s the most tragic thing when you have brilliance and fire and then it’s terminated at the expense of the bottom line.” — Justin Dauer Imagine you walk into your CEO’s office and see her sitting at…
Mental Whiplash, Flow and Keeping Pace with the Speed of Change
Awaken by Cameron Gray Many of us are experiencing mental whiplash, where the rate of change far exceeds our ability to process that rate of change. In a sense, our mental capacity cannot keep up with…
The Mind is not a Vessel to be Filled but a Fire to be Kindled
AlphaCoders “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch The Only Role of the Learner is to Receive? I had a discussion about Education with one of the greatest…
Marination of the Mind — Rest, Digest and the Reminiscence Effect
Threadless “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” — Albert Einstein The word marinate comes from the 1640s, from the French…
Chief Dream Officers — Is Your Company Dream Deprived?
You know what it’s like, you take a long haul flight, you are unable to sleep and as a result get quite irritated. If you are travelling for business, that night you wake at 3…
Breaking Organisational Insanity Loops — Lessons from Architects and Creatives
Threadless In the 1950s a little known creativity study was conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley. The study remarkably assembled the top architects of the day,…