Brain science supports the notion of No More Rules!
Photo by blatantnews.com I haven’t touched the issue of No More Rules! for a while now (link straight to the presentation). But something I came across last week reminded me of it. It turns out that a...
View ArticlePassion as the basic capability
I copied the above picture from a slide on a presentation given by Gary Hamel in a webinar as part of the Management Innovation Exchange (you need to register to access it; it will be available for a...
View ArticleTo fail forward
Photo by KaiChanVong Jeff Stibel in an HBR.org blog post titled Avoid Decisions, Avoid Life, writes: To fail forward, you must create many decisions, each incrementally improving your businesses. This...
View ArticleThe combination of a killer process and almost religious trust
Photo by schmollmolch Seth Godin writes about Finding inspiration instead of it finding you: One approach to innovation and brainstorming is to wait for the muse to appear, to hope that it alights on...
View ArticleThe challenge of diversity and innovation – a different way to approach...
Photo by Sanj@y Last week (yes I know, who writes about things that happened last week anymore, right?) John Kotter wrote an interesting post on HBR.org titled: What a Physicist Taught Me About Leading...
View ArticleMastery of the mundane
Photo by Evil Paul When I read Outliers: The Story of Success about two years ago, one on the things that struck me most is the 10,000 hours rule. For those of you are still not familiar with this...
View ArticleBalance, productivity and creativity
Photo by *clairity* I have been thinking about the issue of balance a lot lately. It shows up in many of my readings and it constantly popping into my head in all kinds of contexts. One of the balances...
View ArticleBook Review: Where Good Ideas Come From
A few days ago I finished reading Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. As someone truly interested in creativity and innovation and their antecedents I...
View ArticleSafety and exploration
Photo by eyeliam I am currently reading the wonderful book The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks. In it, Brooks discusses the work of John Bowlby: He...
View ArticleDoctrinally approved solutions
Photo by unc-cfc-usfk About a week ago I finished reading Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. I did not find it particularly novel as most of the research mentioned in it...
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