The Disrupters: Working Outside The Business Norm Growth Needs Space: A BBH Cannes Speech (With A Difference) Last Friday in Cannes, BBH’s own Sir John Hegarty gave the following speech co-authored with co-founder Nigel Bogle (Nigel was unfortunately unable to join him due to illness). The premise of their speech is powerfully simple: growth needs space. Space needs difference. Of course we could simply have put the video of Sir John’s speech here on the blog, alongside the slideshare. Sir John Hegarty at Cannes via vidazzl.com We’re planning on making this a platform where anyone can upload a speech and display it in a, well, vidazzled version, but for now you can view Sir John’s speech from the Cannes Festival here and, of course, let us know your thoughts on the talk, on the presentation and on the difference.’ Gabor (Creative Technologist) adds a note on the choice of technology and the time frame: ‘The oldest email I found in my mailbox about vidazzl is just a bit more than a month old. vidazzl credits: Jeremy Ettinghausen – Creative Director Gabor Szalatnyai – Creative Technologist
Five big ideas from five big thinkers. | NEXTNESS 1. Nicholas Felton. Let data tell your life story. Last week, Facebook released its newest and arguably most important update: Timeline. Timeline was inspired by Nicholas Felton, poached by Facebook to join its product team after five years of developing complex and beautiful life ‘Annual Reports.’ Nicholas says, I don’t know exactly when my love for charts began. “His work was a huge inspiration on a lot of the big ideas that we presented today,” Facebook VP of product Christopher Cox said at Timeline’s launch. More: Nicholas Felton’s website | blog | On Twitter @feltron | Daytum, the site he developed to assist people track their own data. 2. Maria Popova is renowned on the blogosphere for her magpie’s ability to source the most fascinating and glittering pieces of creativity from every field and discipline, from the most recent to the centuries-old. She calls the concept behing her curation ‘combinatorial creativity‘: 3. 4. Now he says “social media feels done. 5.
Ibm's report creative leadership report july 2011 The Creative Method v2 Mindset Architecture While one may not agree with Hamlets’ statement that “there is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so”, it is clear that our mindsets matter a lot in how we perceive life, how we are perceived and the degree of success we may have in our varied endeavors. In rapidly changing and chaotic times an agile mindset can be critical to success. While there are many personal trainers to help sculpt our bodies into somewhat supple forms, there are few folks who show us how to exercise our minds to be as flexible as they need to be. Here is some of what I have learnt over the years: 1. Three in particular: Globalization. One can fantasize as much as one wants but these three forces are unstoppable and now the Internet (“Connection Engine”) acts like Viagra on them, where each force connects to and rejuvenates the other. All the fretting, complaining and hoping that these three realities go away is a complete and total waste of time. 2. 3. Look at the world through a different lens. 4. 5. 6.
5 Rules for a Creative Culture by Ben Chestnut, Founder of Mailchimp 1. Avoid rules. Avoid order. Don’t just embrace chaos, but create a little bit of it. Constant change, from the top-down, keeps people nimble and flexible (and shows that you want constant change). 2. 3. 4. 5. (via FastCompany) Ken Robinson On The Principles Of Creative Leadership Sir Ken Robinson is among the world's elite thinkers when it comes to creativity and innovation. The author of Out of Minds: Learning to be Creative, a 10th anniversary edition of which was published in March, and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Robinson has dedicated much of his professional life to helping governments, educational systems and businesses understand that creativity is not a fanciful luxury. "Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra. It's a strategic issue," said Robinson while in Cannes where he was invited to speak about the necessity for creativity in innovation. "So what people are faced with is having to think very different about how to run organizations." Here Robinson talks about making creativity a priority, his disdain for the term creative industries, leadership from the middle, and why in times of economic crisis creativity is an urgent imperative.
Jonah Lehrer: Fostering Creativity And Imagination In The Workplace Beethoven would try as many as 70 different versions of a musical phrase before settling on the right one. But other great ideas seem to come out of the blue. Bob Dylan, for example, came up with the lyrics to the chorus for "Like a Rolling Stone" soon after telling his manager that he was creatively exhausted and ready to bail from the music industry. After going to an isolated cabin, Dylan got an uncontrollable urge to write and spilled out his thoughts in dozens of pages — including the lyrics to the iconic song. Scientists are now learning more about how such moments occur, says science writer Jonah Lehrer. "Moments of insight are a very-well studied psychological phenomenon with two defining features," Lehrer tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. Scientists have determined that people in a relaxed state and a good mood are far more likely to develop innovative or creative thoughts. Nina Subin Interview Highlights On outsider knowledge On hard work On the link between depression and creativity