When is the next bus coming? Wouldn’t it be nice to know the future?
There’s an app for the Toronto Transit Commission that let’s smart phone transit riders know how long a wait for the next bus. Brilliant. This free app eliminates the anxiety of guessing if there’s enough time to walk to the next stop and still catch a ride. The app is called Next Bus available on [...]
read moreChecked your Carbon Footprint Lately?
Here’s another great project idea for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21, an imagination experiment. I’ve been struck by the amount of money we spend to support our carbon consuming habits – car, gas, new technology toys, etc. and wonder if the more money a person has, the more he or she [...]
read moreConfused? Great time to use your imagination.
The best time to use your imagination is when you feel confused. Confusion occurs when familiar boundaries disappear. The word confusion comes from two Greek words: Con meaning with and fusion meaning two things melting together. Normally we know where one thing ends and another begins. We get confused when those separating lines or [...]
read moreWhy do people say no? Collecting thoughts
I’m often brought into companies who want to overcome hurdles to innovation. They want to move forward and at the same time are reluctant to adopt new strategies and metrics, and to influence new behaviours and attitudes to create new futures. What’s that all about? Time and again the largest obstacle to moving innovation forward [...]
read moreBoomer Creativity may be on the Rise
Our friends at Idea Champions prepared this slide show to prove creativity is available to people who are 50+. If that’s you, a quick flip through will surely put a smile on your face and breathe some inspiration to your soul. Creativity Late in Life
read moreThe Story of Broke – Annie Leonard’s new film
Filmmaker Annie Leonard, of Story of Stuff.org just released her newest film – the Story of Broke (2011) showing how the US economy is broken and that there is enough money for things to work. Sit back and watch. It’s refreshing and thought-provoking. You may feel inspired to have a creative idea or make new [...]
read moreWhat tomorrow might be…intriguing day-to-day technology use
If you are having a challenge or two envisioning the future and your life in it, take the 6-minute break to imagine navigating your day productively, the way the people do in this video. Related articles Intel’s “Tomorrow Project” — public conversations about the future of technology (boingboing.net) VIDEO: The technology of tomorrow (news.bbc.co.uk)
read moreSteve Jobs Genius Compared to Einstein – NY Times
In his NYTimes Opinion piece printed October 30, 2011 as The Genius of Jobs, Walter Isaacson compares the genius of Jobs to Einstein, both stalwart examples (and role models?) of propelling the world into new dimensions of experience and discovery. Steve Jobs, he says, “…was the most innovative and successful business leader of our era [...]
read moreCan you train people to be happier at work?
When brains are primed to be positive, people perform better than when they are in a negative or neutral state. Research supports positivity having an influence on creativity, in a good way. Author Martin Addison says it is possible to imprint the brain with positive patterns by using a series of habits and mindset changes [...]
read moreWhat if schools helped students do a ‘Steve Jobs’ to land a job? Harvard Business School has a leg up.
When I was fresh out of university I went looking for a job. After getting fired from a number of them over the years, I decided it was more about identifying the work that needed doing and going ahead and doing it. Creativity professional was not a job category in the 1980′s, nor was innovation [...]
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