Roger Steare Corporate Philosopher. Neat little clip and some important if not profound statements that we all probably agree with but don’t necessarily know how to practice. Check it out.
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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The sky is slate gray and black. A determined wind crackling impatiently with the electricity wires. The enormity of the drama reveals itself. The scene is tumultuous. Wet heat prickles on everyone’s neck soaking every body. Vast purple gaps give way to greenish tints. The rain starts to pelt. Noise reaches a cacophony.
Specks of dust in the air turn into branches and parts of houses. It’s a twister. The gathering of those that escaped to the woods is turning sour. The elders are at odds with what to do. Conversations are violent and scared – everyone has an opinion about what to do. Each stuck into a groove that’s been rehearsed by countless dead generations. It’s a ritual voodoo dance of acute worrying, blame and accusation.
Strange spells hang in the sodden air. The tornado subsides, the skies clear. The elders relax. They rest. They get bitten by a deadly spider.Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Imagine experiencing your conversation, the discussion groups feedback appearing within structured frameworks that are themselves part of a greater logic?
Imagine the importance of this in terms of clarifying meaning, keeping the conversation focused and overcoming semantics within critical strategic debate or at key stages of change. Consider how the ‘design’ could be both improved and better understood by such a technique.
More here – http://bit.ly/2D8LUM
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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We have so little time it’s vital we do this as fast as possible and get the most out of it. We need to think big! We need to imagine at scale! Our people need to be fully engaged, understand and own the outcomes. Every moving part. And be inspired.
The 21st Century Business demands new tools. Creativity, Design, Story Telling. It needs new methods, co-creation, value networks, digital alchemy.
The winning business will be that which applies its minds to the gaps in between the patterns. What is truly going on in the minds of its audiences. Taking fresh thinking and ideas to market. This means being ingenious. Applying creativity to every idea, every thought – from anyone. This means getting our heads and hands onto the issues or opportunities.
Getting technology to spread the words and ideas will be vital. It’s a global market. It’s Espresso time. Quality, concentrated and inspiring. With flavor!
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Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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I now know why the mystics, those enlightened ones, chose to sit on top of a rock – in a desert – by a sole tree – for months and years on end. Staring at a grain of sand. Returning with a deep and rich appreciation of almost everything. Ever thought why? Well here’s one idea.Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Freddy Mercury and Queen really loved Switzerland and ended up buying a recording studio outside Montreux on Lake Geneva. There is a statue to Freddy on the shore (featured on the cover of their album – Made in Heaven). The song ‘Smoke on the Water’ by Deep Purple is about the smoke from a casino fire when a fan at a Frank Zappa concert accidently burnt down the casino in Montreux leading to smoke over the waters of Lake Geneva. Oh and they store all the money in the world. You would think that it would really be a very exciting and creative place to be. Hmm…
Their trains run like clockwork, their clockwork does too. Not surprisingly therefore this clockwork turns out some of the most amazing watches to be found anywhere – anywhere. They famously fashion their chocolate into geometrically intriguing shapes.
Women are expected to live 6 years longer than men but are not forced to. In 1471 a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was found guilty of laying a brightly colored egg ‘in defiance of natural law’ so it was burned at the stake as ‘a devil in disguise. In Switzerland, until recently, it was against the law to slam your car door. In Switzerland, it is illegal to mow your front lawn while you’re dressed as Elvis.
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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The 21st Century demands different thinking. This short booklet describes it visually and this link takes you to the full monty! http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net/index.php?title=2010
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
Very neatly done if a little fast on some slides.
Im noticing a lot of such things coming out and of a much higher quality. Hope you find it valuable,
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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Jacqueline Novogratz on how to recognize a linchpin from Seth Godin on Vimeo.
Jaqueline Novogratz speaks very eloquently about how to show up as a leader. Whether you are designated a leader or not – this is why some people just are! With thanks to Seth Godin for pointing this out…
Posted: February 20th, 2010 under Working Rambles.
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My own expectations of everything in my life are way out of whack.
It means that I am almost always disappointed. But not for long.I remind myself that actually I don’t care because there will always be something else next. I either get frustrated or get on. My choice. I expect great things from other people. I expect great things from what I do. I expect great things from technology and of every aspect of life’s journey. I know. It’s stupid. But on the whole Apple has never let me down. It’s true my expectation of some people has gone down. But my expectation of people hasn’t.
I just haven’t found the key to unlocking more belief in us as a species – on a grand scale – as a WE – a more socially connected more influential whole. There goes my grand expectation whirring into life again.
Frustration is always around but what am I going going to do? Well actually I’m going to do something. Sure I’m going to continue to get prickly when the internet goes down, people act dumb, airport process – people royally disappoint and piss me off – stuff like that. But I’m doing something – I’m remaining optimistic in the face of it all.
Anyway frustration is becoming a daft and all to easy a word. It’s a cop out. An excuse. It’s also, like all too many words, overused – abused. What does it really mean. In point of fact – for me it’s the raw material of creativity – the catalyst of action and change. Bring it on. No wait.
The category should be redefined from tablet to Laptop, Desktop – Lifetop.
Well the iPad looks like a real sign of optimism to me – and if Steve Jobs becomes even richer good luck to him. It’s an engine of optimism, no matter how long it takes for the idea of what it is to take root – it is a game changer for a kind of WE.
- Smaller, so more people carry it
- Cheaper so that it and its applications will more likely get to grips, literally, with what it represents and…
- Game changing because it will bring a more thoughtful thinking connectivity to ours and future generations.
This is a new category.Instead of sitting at a desk, for the first time you can hold the thing like a book and read stuff. For the first time, unlike a computer you can pass the thing around and exchange ideas in that more social way. For the first time, because of Apple’s paradigm changing reach, this will become the device of millions. So our challenge is not with the device and others like it but what we make it do. The ‘Apps’ we create, the use we put it to.
This category – the Lifetop - has the capacity to change our way of working and thinking. It’s not locked down to the desk, it’s not the teeny screen with limitations like a phone, its inbetween. But unlike other category killers it’s not quite yet a category. It will be when we use our imaginations to put such a tool to use.
I hope WE do. What say you?
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
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