The era of social media is teaching us new rules for public speaking. When the crowd is by definition connected to the rest of the world via smart phones, tablets and computers, you also need to change the way you’re presenting says blogger Drew Neisser.
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What happens when you’re at a conference where the line-up of speakers is greater than at any conference you’ve been so far at. You get inspired, overloaded with fresh ideas and energised to give your own activities a new boost.
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The Russian economist Kondratieff discovered that market economies develop in 50-70 year long waves. Markets follow an up-cycle of growth leading to a period of stability that is eventually followed by a recession and that in a timeframe of 50 to 70 years before the new wave starts.
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Observation is all about getting new insights. The better you observe, the quicker new insights will come.
I was reading the ‘Art of Innovation’, the bestseller by Tom Kelly of the hugely successful design firm IDEO.
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True science postulates laws that are devoid of any morality. The principles on mechanics that Newton described are true. No matter what you find of them. The same applies for other fields such as mathematics, thermodynamics, electronics, etc. Still the effect of these scientific principles might hold a moral value.
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In a previous post I elaborated on informality as a necessary condition for ideas to travel en create breakthrough innovations. In this post I will take a closer look at how ideas propagate and thereby classifying two sorts of innovation.
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On Friday 11 February I organised the Creative Green Forum as part of the Green Innovation Platform. An interesting discussion about the definition of innovation started between one of the speakers and the audience.
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