From the ideas from strange places department: Papaw didn’t get out to use his grill early enough this year and so someone else set up shop. Now, some would have said it is a bad idea to build a nest in a grill with summer parties around the corner. But mom and dad bird had [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Visionary’
Physics and Ideation: When Does A Breakthrough Idea Become An Acceptable Idea?
Many business ideas die as much from neglect as from hostility. Breakthrough concepts are dismissed by influencers who show disbelief when ideas do not fit their current world view. Ideas are left to stew and ripen outside mainstream business thought — only to burst on the scene and disrupt whole economies seemingly out of no-wheresville. [...]
Physics and Ideation: Ways To Unleash Creativity
Confusion about when to praise, when to probe, and when to argue with an idea is killing creativity in business. And the scary thing is some of the most innovative tools being put in place to increase the flow of ideas are just as effective at killing the spirit as in the old days of [...]
New Ways For Entrepreneurs To Do Business With China
UPDATE: I just found out only the first day of the conference had been planned to be streamed, this being a first and all. I was very impressed with the professional quality presented. Technically, on-screen graphics for each speaker, multi-camera switching, good lighting, excellent sound. It was obvious that IU had some capable media folks [...]
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 [...]
