Dirty Work in The Garage - Next at Microsoft. I hate to admit it, but I still have my best ideas in the shower.
I’m constantly misplacing my keys, and this morning during my second rinse & repeat, I came up with a brilliant solution involving Windows Phone, Microsoft Lync and RFID tags. Now, all I need to do is get it built. That’s the real problem of course. Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard's "Priceless" Pitchman - Kevin Allen. As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Erickson, my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living.
But, when we pitched, won and delivered the phenomenon now globally known as Priceless for MasterCard, she could finally brag to her friends at my Aunt Rose’s kitchen table. From the moment the very first television commercial appeared (You remember it, right? “Two tickets: $28. What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It - Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer. By Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer | 9:49 AM April 25, 2012 Management is widely viewed as a foe of innovation.
The thinking goes that too much management strangles innovation (just let a thousand flowers bloom!). But we have found a much more nuanced picture. You really can manage for innovation, but it starts by knowing what drives creativity in the people who generate and develop the new ideas that, when implemented, will become tomorrow’s innovations. Unfortunately, too many managers unintentionally kill innovation because they rely too heavily on carrots and sticks to motivate employees.
More than three decades of research have shown that people are most likely to be creative when they’re intrinsically motivated by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself. Nordstrom Innovation Lab. Innovating the Library Way - Grant McCracken. By Grant McCracken | 11:28 AM January 26, 2012 The original value proposition of the library was not just free books but something more, something I learned as a seven-year-old at the Dunbar Public Library in Vancouver, B.C.
The library looked like dumpy, public architecture but it was in fact a house of many mansions, a place of possibility, a portal. Space travel, time travel, identity travel, you name it, the library could do take you there. But other media can make the same promise. The dominance of radio, TV, and Hollywood threatened libraries with irrelevance, and now the rise of the internet, smart phones, and ebooks, threaten them with eclipse. So libraries are struggling. Perhaps the answer lies in the library’s physicality. My now-local library came up with a lovely idea. What do you think your stuffed animal friends would do if they spent the night at the library? A.G. Lafley vs. Steve Jobs - Scott Anthony. By Scott Anthony | 4:41 PM January 23, 2012 Usually the question comes right after I tell an audience that I put former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G.
Lafley on my “Innovation Mount Rushmore” as a reminder of the importance of investing time and energy to understand the target market. “But how do you square that with Steve Jobs?” An intrepid audience member asks. “After all, Jobs said, ‘It isn’t the customer’s job to know what they want.’” It feels like a classic battle — the scientific approach of a company that launches 80 market research studies a day versus the intuitive touch of the iconic innovator of our time. But it’s a false comparison. Sometimes it is completely appropriate to follow the simple approach of asking customers what they want. However, in the uncertain circumstances that innovators searching for new growth typically encounter, it pays to be wary of the value of asking customers what they want.
Wanted: Idea Fusers - Bronwyn Fryer - Our Editors. By Bronwyn Fryer | 9:40 AM February 7, 2012 It’s become pretty much common knowledge that great innovation springs from the ability to pull two unlike things together to create a beautiful third.
Listen to What Innovators Don't Talk About - Michael Schrage. By Michael Schrage | 4:54 PM January 25, 2012 While working away on my laptop at a hotel breakfast, I couldn’t help but overhear the four gentlemen poring over an iPad two tables way.
Their intense discussion revolved around rolling out their high-tech prototypes in a medical care complex. Since I’ve written about prototypes and prototyping, I couldn’t help but eavesdrop. Forgive me. The foursome represented a mix of medical care complex personnel and what was clearly an entrepreneurial innovator with a potentially high-impact idea. These questions are classic and it’s always fascinating to hear how — and what — decides them. Creative coaching, creativity, productivity. Discover A Better Way of Working. Study Hacks. On Sam Harris and Stephen Fry’s Meditation Debate February 19th, 2019 · 44 comments A few weeks ago, on his podcast, Sam Harris interviewed the actor and comedian Stephen Fry.
Early in the episode, the conversation took a long detour into the topic of mindfulness meditation. Behance. The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. Act One. 3×5. Challenging Authority Since 1978 I am a writer, traveler, and entrepreneur with the goal of visiting every country in the world while connecting with other world-changers.
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