Background listening: creativity & innovation, industrialisation & education
As we think about the vision for this Process of Innovation blog, I want to point back to some of the root cause issues that underpin the need for a focus on innovation.
Lets start by listening to THIS PODCAST of Sir Ken Robinson via TED talks. As we listen, think of these and other interesting word pairs:
- education & industrialisation
- innovation & creativity
- society & economy
- mediocrity & middle management
- beauty & profit
- economic rationalism & value
- mind & body
- work & play
- risk & reward
- chaos & control
- commodity & invention
- creativity & literacy
Listening to Sir Ken’s talk stirred up a lot of strong resonant feelings deep within me and caused me to think of the triggers that caused me to struggle so vigorously for innovation in my work life. Sentences like ‘any programmer caught being creative will be sacked’ (a leading CIO), ‘from now on there will be no tea lady’ (a parsimonious financial controller), ‘I.T. never delivers business value’ (at the world congress for IT).
As we carefully craft, hone and cobble our vision statement, let us harken back to the deep stirrings that underpin this adventure.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
Fang - Mike Seyfang
technorati tags:podcast, creativity
May 11th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Mike. As I said on phone…much similarity with the “Whole new mind” book I’m reading. Here’s link to a mind map overview.
http://steves.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/19/1772216.html
Dave
December 17th, 2007 at 10:21 am
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