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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 imag

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The rise of the amateur professional
2007-09-05 23:20:00
In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals 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.
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12 sustainable design ideas from nature.
2007-09-04 16:57:00
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 designers 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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Do schools kill creativity?
2007-09-04 08:25:00
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: “If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk, please stop whatever you’re doing and watch it now.”
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Creativity at work: Why it?s important and what it takes.
2007-08-28 08:53:00
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 ...
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Creativity at work: Why it’s important and what it takes.
2007-08-28 08:53:00
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 se...
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So what is creativity?
2007-08-28 02:11:00
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 ...
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Failure breeds success.
2007-08-24 04:03:00
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 ...
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The relationship between quantity and quality of ideas.
2007-08-24 03:10:00
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 ...
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Always be prepared for the unexpected.
2007-08-24 00:51:00
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.
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Idea Management.
2007-08-20 23:16:00
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. ...
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Don?t covet your ideas.
2007-08-17 01:58:00
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 ...
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Mind of the Innovator
2007-08-15 23:24:00
This is an excerpt from a new manifesto called Mind of the Inno vator 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 ...
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Searching for ideas.
2007-08-03 06:00:00
“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 ...
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Radical Innovative Xideas.
2007-08-02 06:47:00
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 ...
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