How Do You Invest Your Most Valuable Asset – Your Attention?
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Every day we make choices about how we invest our attention. What would happen if we did this more deliberately?
Category Archives: connect
Solvitur ambulando – A Great Creativity Hack
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If you feel disconnected from life, or too wrapped up in tech, or too busy to work on important things, you can solve your problem by walking.
Where Does Advantage Come From in the Social Era?
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Every day we hear about traditional industries being disrupted, about great new ideas that are creating growth, and about changes to the way we work. It sure seems as though the nature of business is changing these days. But is it, really? It turns out the answer is yes. I’ve done some research with Nilofer […]
The Future is Already Here – Find It!
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Which location has a better mobile payment system: Kenya or Silicon Valley? The answer is Kenya, and we can learn a lot about innovating more effectively by looking at why this is the case.
Talent is Everything, and Talent Can Be Developed
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Ideas from Carol Dweck, Hayao Miyazaki and Ira Glass help us figure out how to grow our talent.
Making Ideas Real, Simplicity & TED Talks
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If we want to change the world, we have to communicate our ideas clearly. This is challenging. I learned some lessons about how to do this in giving a talk at TEDxUQ this year.
You Should Start a Blog Right Now
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You should start a blog right now. It will help both you and others learn, and it will help you build a skill.
How Can We Increase Insight?
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Innovation depends on insight. But many of the practices and habits within our organisations actually inhibit generating insights. In Seeing What Other Don’t, Gary Klein offers some ideas for overcoming these obstacles, and for generating novel insights.
Innovation Opportunity: The Future is Co-Created
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One of the world’s first home computers was the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. It was a disastrous product, but thinking about it can help us spread our own new ideas more quickly.
Hacking Innovation
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Innovation Travels on Two Legs
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The best way to get ideas to spread has been around a long time: talk to people.
Look for Innovation From the Edge
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Kenya is at the cutting edge of innovation in mobile money. How can this be? There are a plenty of reasons, and a few things to learn about innovation by investigating.
