“Do executives really value creativity?” This was the question asked by the Wall Street Journal recently. The article quoted Adobe chief strategist Mark Randall, who said that executives rated creativity higher than integrity and global thinking in the...
“Ignore it” is not typical advice for a problem. Yet the best approach, sometimes, to a challenge or stumbling block is not to tackle it head on. Rather, you should address the issue obliquely or, even better, ignore it. As the author, Hanif Kureishi, observes in this...
Last week’s Sunday New York Times had this interesting article, The Rise of the New Groupthink, about the deficiencies of the creativity exercise, brainstorming. The author posited that solitude was the better method for inspiration. In other words, quiet time...
In the same way that individuals can find inspiration, joy, energy, ideas and meaning through conversation, so too can businesses and organizations. Legendary business innovators, such as James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood and Matthew Boulton, members of the Lunar Society...
I’d expected a little more imagination from Google, but at least their Eight Pillars of Innovation, articulated in their Think Quarterly publication, referenced something akin to Dusty Davidson’s idea around Accelerated Serendipity (see these notes from...
