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Searching for ideas. 2007-08-02 23:00:03 “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Sun Tzu.
It is true that the nature of our beliefs and perceptions is interpreted from our experiences, we can choose to interpret our experiences anyway we wish. It is not the experience that determines who you are; it is the interpretation of the experience. You do not see things as they are; you see them as you are.
We are each given a set of experiences in life, the experiences are neutral, they have no meaning. It is how we interpret the experiences that gives them meaning. The interpretations of experiences shape our beliefs and the theories about the world. Our beliefs and theories, in turn, determine what we observe in the world to confirm our beliefs, which, in turn, reinforce our interpretations.
It is only by looking at things differently, curiously that we will find something that we thought wasn’t there. Give this a try and you will find a whole lot of ideas
in places you never thought
Radical Innovative Xideas. 2007-08-01 23:47:00 We now live in a world where innovation is the only competitive advantage you have, innovation is the difference maker. In a nonlinear world, only nonlinear ideas will create new wealth. We now need to dream, create, explore, invent, pioneer and imagine new business concepts and solutions to the worlds industries. We must rise to the challenge of seeing different and being different, only then will we be able to tap into those spaces where new ideas abound.
Xideas is and idea space where all this will be possible.
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Mind of the Innovator 2007-08-15 16:24:24 This is an excerpt from a new manifesto called Mind of the Innovator from the Changethis website.
The Seven sins of solutions.
Shortcutting (leaping to solutions). Leaping to solutions in an instinctive way or intuitive way—i.e. the “blink” method of problem solving—almost never leads to an elegant solution to a complex problem, because deeper,
hidden causes don’t get addressed. Now, most of the problems we face don’t require us to analyze
them any more deeply than to arrive at a work-around. But when we face more complex challenges, we need to think deeper. You know the usual suspects: what time to get up, what to wear, how to avoid traffic, tall-grande-venti? Unfortunately, our brains are trained to perform mental shortcuts.
Blindspots. Blindspots are the umbrella term for assumptions, biases, mind-sets and reflexive thinking.
Our brains do a lot of “filling in” for us. When our brains make their patterns based on our experience, we have to really focus to conscious
Idea Management. 2007-08-20 16:16:20 How do you manage your ideas? Do you write them down on a notebook? Do you write them on post it notes? Do you keep them in your head? How about telling someone else about your idea for them to remember?
We all do any of these, obviously there are other ways of managing your ideas. Just like any person who keeps a personal journal about their daily life, idea seekers are the same. Typically they’ll have a small notebook and a pencil. I like to use my phone, I’ve got an application that let’s me keep notes or I’ll just use my camera for something more visual.
As I was doing my morning link checking I came across Wridea, which is a idea management web service where you can invite people to brainstorm. It has features such as managing pages, category management, ability to record your ideas and send an email to your wridea account, and a tool called idea rain. It’s got a simple and effective interface, I’ve already started using it and invited a few par Read more:Management
Don’t covet your ideas. 2007-08-16 18:58:04 Give away everything you know and more will come back to you. Do you remember when you were in school when other students prevented you from seeing their answers by placing their arm around the exam. People are secretive with ideas
. The problem with hoarding is that you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you become stale.
If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish.
Ideas are open knowledge. Don’t claim ownership.
Besides they’re not your ideas anyway, they’re someone else’s. They’re out there floating. You just need to put yourself in a frame of mind to pick them up.
Ideas are everywhere you look, you need to be curious and look where everyone else is looking and also where no one is looking
Next week I’ll be posting some creative techniques which I have learned and have put to good use. If you have some creative techniques that you use and would like to share, shoot me Read more:covet
Failure breeds success. 2007-08-23 21:03:11 I’m a huge Michael Jordan fan, so much that I’ve always emulated him not just from a basketball standpoint but also on life in general. You might be asking yourself right now what does Michael Jordan have to do with innovation? A lot.
As everything else that happens to successful people in life, they all failed at a couple of times before they got it right. And that is what makes them different from everybody else; they’re willing to fail. They see failure as just another step. They take risks and they live for the challenge of overcoming the obstacles that keep them from getting what they want. Most importantly they’re passionate about it, and that in itself breaks all barriers.
In my last post I talked about the defining characteristic of successful innovators, people like Picasso, Einstein, Thomas Edison. All we hear about them is all the good they did, but never how they got to that point. They all failed in one form or another before they got it right. They Read more:breeds
The relationship between quantity and quality of ideas. 2007-08-23 20:10:33 There are two types of ideas
, directional and intersectional. The difference between them is that we know where we’re going with the directional. Directional innovation improves anything in a predictable matter. These represent the majority of innovations.
Intersectional innovations, change the world in leaps along new directions. These usually create new fields and therefore make it possible for the people who created them to become leaders of that field. These types of innovations don’t require much expertise and therefore people who come up with them are the people you least suspect. Intersectional innovations are radical in their nature. Intersectional innovations share the following characteristics:
- They are surprising and fascinating.
- They take leaps in new directions.
- They open up entirely new fields.
- They provide the space for a person, team or company to call its own.
- They generate followers, which means the creators can become leaders.
- They provide a s
Always be prepared for the unexpected. 2007-08-23 17:51:55 Ever run into situations that don’t come out as you planned, because something unexpected happened.? If you’re sitting down on your chair, stand up and then sit down. Check this video out, after seeing this video I know you’ll be jumping off your seat.
Creativity at work: Why it’s important and what it takes. 2007-08-28 01:53:29 In most other areas of business, from manufacturing to marketing to management, creative thinking often represents your most valuable, viable opportunity to differentiate your company from the competition. CourCreativity
is the key to any innovative idea, product, or service. No matter how large, small, serious, or clever your business objective, approaching it with creativity will almost always deliver more effective results. With indistinguishable offerings saturating many industries, creativity might even be your most important asset. That’s why it’s worth examining creativity and what the creative process requires.
COURAGE
Unknowns can be frightening—and nothing is more of an unknown than creativity.
Committing to creative problem-solving begins with mustering the courage to look at your traditional strategies and common goals in entirely new ways. How could you make a tradeshow exhibit an experience visitors remember? What kind of creative fuel would it take to send
So what is creativity? 2007-08-27 19:11:07 If you look up creativity in wikipedia you get: creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
Many people believe that creativity is something you either have or you don’t, and if you are amongst the happy few, you’ll use your creativity to create difficult art the general public won’t understand but your creative counterparts will love.
After intensive research about the ways of this mysterious thing called creativity, we’ve found out that creativity is something that can be learned by everyone. Furthermore, creativity is of vital importance to every act you’ll ever do. Art or no art. The correct usage of your creativity can change every action you’ll ever do from ordinary to extraordinary.
This is a funny video I found pretty much describing visually what being creative means in five minutes. Being funny is being creative, humor is something all of us under
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The Secret of Serial Entrepreneurship. 2007-09-20 17:06:23
WSJ’s Raymund Flandez speaks to New York entrepreneur Ari Meisel, 24, who has founded four companies — including three before he was out of high school.
Here’s a great article from the Wall Street Journal about serial entrepreneurs. There are two types of entrepreneurs by nature: entrepreneurs that are founders of one company, and they stay with that company until it blossoms or fails. If it blossoms then they’re all set. The other type of entrepreneur is the serial entrepreneur, these types of people are founders in multiple businesses and of the majority of the times none of them are related to the past one.
Entrepreneurs by nature have the same distinct qualities that you can read here, serial entrepreneurs are the same; only take that and multiply it by 10. Serial
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Creative Whack of the week. 2007-09-20 10:31:46 So last week I started the Creative Whack of the week, every Monday I’ll be doing this. For today the whack is card number….
43 Flex your risk muscle. Bull’s-eye every time? If so, you’re standing too close to the target. As comedian Woody Allen puts it, "If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative." Everyone has a "risk muscle." You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies and you’re no linger able to take chances. How can you exercise your risk muscle?
Innovators take risks. Innovators accept failure. Innovation requires that you try a lot of different things and keep what works. Mistakes and false starts are part of the process of making ideas happen. If we hope to innovate, we must factor them in the equation. We must continue executing ideas and move past our failures. But how? You must be willing to:
- Try ideas that fail to find
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Creativity and Illusions go hand in hand. 2007-09-17 02:05:23
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. As you can see even a kid can do this. Which is exactly the point, when we were kids we could take any object or picture and give it at least 5 different meanings. To be creative, we need to see things from different perspectives, including a child’s. Children that are just growing up don’t worry about what things should be, all they want to do explore, explore, explore.
As adults we need to regain that sense of curiosity and excitement that we had we were children. So if you’re working on an idea that you’ve come up and want some feedback, go ask your 2 year old kid for some advice. I know this has happened to a lot of people, they’ll give you something to think about.
If you’ve got any related personal story you want to share I’d like to hear about it.
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The Myths of Innovation. 2007-09-15 16:40:45
Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That’s the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we’ve constructed about how we got here. This talk, will help you to recognize the myths, understand why they’re popular (even if you don’t believe in them), and how to use the truth to help you innovate today. By the way Scott Berkun the author of the book The Myths
of Innovation
went to Google to give this talk.
Some key points:
- Innovation and design are ancient.
- We can learn from their history and mythology.
- Organization of any size can innovate.
- Innovation is simple, but hard: delegate, expect mistakes, reward initiative.
I haven’t read the book, I will read it. Many of the things that he says aren’t really that mind boggling, mainly because the history of the world already holds all the information we need to innovate. It’s all a cycle. As I’ve been preaching in previo
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. 2007-09-14 19:22:02 Studies in neuroscience indicate that the sense we make of external things
is based in small part in what we see outside and in large part on the patterns located in our minds. The mind appears to do this, in part, by choosing to ignore some of the external world. Our eyes and ears constantly gather information, but our mind is not really processing it at all. This stimulation flows into the brain, where what seems to be an internally related pattern appears, which the brain uses to represent the external situation.
An example of this is as if a visitor came to the front door and rang the bell, and the person inside, just by a quick glance through the peephole, formed a complete profile of the person outside, without opening the door. We know from experience that we have the ability to form snap judgments about people immediately, and these judgments are sometimes wrong. Yet this process is extraordinarily efficient and effective, which is why there are peepholes in doors in the
Powerful video. 2007-09-13 23:34:00
I received a mail from TED, I’ve posted video
s from their website before. Pangea Day, called for by 2006 TED prize winner, Jehane Noujaim, basically the project is taking off, and its ambition level is spectacular. On May 10, 2008 - Pangea Day - Jehane’s wish will come to fruition as sites in New York City, Rio, London, Dharamsala, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Kigali will be video-conferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful films - supplemented by visionary speakers, and global musicians. The purpose: to use the power of film to promote better understanding of our common humanity. A global audience will watch through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.
Very powerful indeed.
Creative Whack for all of us. 2007-09-12 19:39:24 Every once in awhile all of us need that fresh view to give us that insight that we’re looking for. Roger Von Oech’s Creative Whack Pack is a collection of 64 cards that contain strategies, some are techniques to generate ideas, some highlight places to look for ideas, some lend you some decision making advice and some give you the "kick" you need to get your ideas into action.
I’ll be going through the Whack Pack every Monday of every week so that all of us can get the week started. I’ll be pulling a card at random and writing about it here. Since Monday already went by, I’ll start with one today. 1…2…3…I got card no. 20.
20. ASK WHAT IF?
Put some magic in your thinking by asking "what if?" questions. What if animals became more intelligent than people? What is highway blacktop came in "bluetop" or "redtop" depending on the speed limit? What if men also had babies? What if cars could transform
Pump Up your mind to become an idea person. 2007-09-10 17:00:44 Are you an idea person
? Following these 10 tips from Michael Michalko’s Thinkertoys you’ll be able to become an everyday idea person. Pumping your mind is like making a path through tall grass. Originally there is no path, yet as you walk the same way each time, one appears. In the same way, you may have no ideas at first, yet as you exercise your mind using these techniques, ideas appear.
Set an Idea Quota. Give your mind a workout everyday. Set yourself an idea quota for a challenge you are working on, such as 5 new ideas every day for a week. You’ll find the first five are the hardest, but these will quickly trigger other ideas. The more ideas you come up with, the greater your chances of coming up with a winner.
Having a quota will force you to actively generate ideas and alternatives rather than waiting for them to occur to you. Having an idea quota does not stop you from generating more ideas than the quota, but it does insure that you generate your mini
The rise of the amateur professional 2007-09-05 16:20:31 In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professional
s anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs through the story of the mountain bike.
12 sustainable design ideas from nature. 2007-09-04 09:57:36 Here’s another great video from TED. With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature
has already solved problems that human design
ers and engineers still struggle with. In this inspiring talk, Janine Benyus provides fascinating examples of biomimicry — the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, those that can survive without destroying the environment that sustains them, biomimicry can contribute to the long-term health of our planet.
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