I like the idea of open source banking. Today’s roiling financial markets are creating opportunities for technology and new capital sources to rewrite how money flows. By pushing for an open source model we could end up with advantages driven by transparency, networking, and robust testing of business models. So what happens when banks actually bid on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kissing-The-Frog’
Was Tropicana Wrong? (Or Just Not Right Enough?)
Discovering what makes a customer tick can feel difficult. That’s why we spend small fortunes on research. That’s why we demand support from such research before allowing major changes by brand managers. And that is why so many layers of management lose touch. How else to explain what Tropicana did to itself this quarter? A packaging redesign so disastrous that [...]
Procrastination = Creativity | There Is Hope!
“Productive mediocrity requires discipline of an ordinary kind.” Quote from W.A. Pannapacker’s article How To Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci. (UPDATE: subscription now required to get to this article.) Evidently Leonardo never saw a project he couldn’t avoid finishing. But maybe procrastination is the wrong word for his tendency to ‘solve and move on.’ Do [...]
Creativity Is Messy
I call the creative process ‘Kissing the Frog.’ Kiss enough of them and a prince is bound to appear. Ed Catmull, Pixar Studios Co-Founder/President, talked about creativity in the Harvard Business Review a few months ago and gave a similar picture from the movie making perspective: “The leaders sort through a mass of ideas to [...]
Frog Blog Goals
Just updated the about page and decided to add this to the feed. Our goal for the Frog Blog is to introduce more creative thought into everyday business principles. Experience has shown that many times creativity gets boxed into organizational categories that managers consider ‘Appropriate’ for creative approaches. So – if you’re putting together a [...]
