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Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the internet, people, and other forms of distraction. Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations.
What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
A still from John Kelly's "Procrastination" video below.
10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Martha Stone Wiske is a Lecturer on Education in the Technology, Innovation, and Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. How do we unleash the power of networked learning?
Unleashing the Power of Networked Learning - Martha Stone Wiske - Innovations in Education - Harvard Business Review
The good folks at Edge.org organized a symposium , and 164 thinkers contributed suggestions.
Tools for Thinking - NYTimes.com
A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Making Complex Decisions - Maarten Bos and Amy Cuddy - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Maarten Bos is a social psychologist and researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
I don't know why, but an awful lot of people seem to be very confused about what innovation means and how it really works. Innovators are not geeks with giant-sized brains that think plaids, stripes, and polka-dots all match. And, more often than not, they don't have a single patent or PhD to their name. In a recent New Yorker article and NPR interview, Malcolm Gladwell talks about what he calls the Creation Myth : that an innovator may not be the guy who comes up with the idea but the guy who turns that idea into something people can use. He goes on to say that you don't want to be first with new technology or ideas and offers Apple as proof of that. You know; he's right.
Innovators Don't See Different Things - They See Things Differently | BNET
Fostering diversity is to promote creativity and reinvent the Organization
Creativity and the Humanities
The Downside of Traditions | Inc.com
It's time to deeply question the traditions of the past and focus on reinventing the future.Look at the news these days from the most dynamic sector of the U.S. economy — Silicon Valley. Facebook is now valued near $100 billion, Twitter at $8 billion, Groupon at $30 billion, Zynga at $20 billion and LinkedIn at $8 billion. These are the fastest-growing Internet/social networking companies in the world, and here’s what’s scary: You could easily fit all their employees together into the 20,000 seats in Madison Square Garden, and still have room for grandma.
The Start-Up of You - NYTimes.com