The sun rises over the forest outside my window this morning. On-screen are messages from the magic 8-ball of the internet that support innovation and creativity and celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21 every year – so we can actively collaborate, leveraging our diversity to generate new ideas and make different decisions. […]
Month: June 2012
7 Minutes of Terror – Curiosity’s Mars Landing Challenge
Watch this quick video to hear about the engineers’ challenges and how they overcame them. Pay attention to how they feel. Innovation involves emotion. You can use this as a story telling model to describe a similarly challenging innovation project you and your team are engage/engaging in. Marci Segal
Social Media – 2012. Wassup.
Marci Segal
This morning’s aha’s.
White crayons. Bottle top tripod. To do tattoo. 3D doodle kit. What’s next, eh? Totally up to you. Off to create something beautiful for our friends at Meridian Credit Union…
Challenges in Education Provoke Need for New Ideas and Different Decisions. True for Business too.
While preparing to moderate the Education Summit which will be held next month at the World Futures Conference in Toronto , I came across this video from the imagineitproject. Poignant, no? Stretching thinking further, beyond education, it’s hard not to see how business and government, healthcare and finance must also respond to new challenges in […]
Looking for internal innovation? Find out what employees want and craft it from there. Young entrepreneurs speak.
“While more money is usually better, more money doesn’t lead to better performance and results. More money is a motivator, but it’s not the motivator,” writes Julien Gordon on theyec.org blog. Makes sense to me. His message for engagement spans beyond the audience he’s writing for. It includes you. As employees, we often want three things from […]
Why Creativity is the Most Important Leadership Quality
Chief Learning Officer (05/30/12) Nikravan, Ladan IBM’s 2010 Global CEO survey of more than 1,500 chief executive officers in 33 industries worldwide found that creativity is the most valued leadership quality for business success, outranking competencies such as integrity and global thinking. Respondents said that the ability to create something that is both new and […]
