I’ll bet that you believe that you are a creative person. I don’t think you would be reading this blog if you weren’t interested in innovation, startups, and the future. So I feel pretty safe in assuming that you are creative. I love creativity. I think creativity is incredible. When creativity goes wild and starts…
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I want to go into Mimetic Theory in a little more detail – I’ve just been reading René Girard’s Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture), and the author makes some fascinating points. If we assume that Mimetic Theory has some basis in fact (if you’d like to read more about it, you can…
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One of the most interesting things about humans is how hypocritical we are. We study after study and get results after the result, but we still do not implement the study’s findings. For some reason, we have amazing curiosity when it comes to developing insights and ideas, but we chicken out when it comes time…
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I love science fiction – it’s amazing how prescient some authors actually are – I just completed reading a short story written in 1970 about a future society where the physical presence of other people is so despised that if any two people ever met each other face to face, they would physically assault each…
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Our world is rife with many examples of unintended consequences. Is it really possible that most people don’t think about the far-reaching effects of their actions and only focus on the short-term benefits? Not so surprising when you realize that very few individuals think or plan further than a few weeks or months out. When…
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How can you stay calm when there is one disruptive thing happening after another? This year is shaping up to be just as disruptive, if not more disruptive, than last year. The “new normal” may be us finally realizing that life is change and that there is no such thing as a steady state. How…
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Now, more than ever (BTW, don’t you hate that phrase too), we live constrained within our own little realities. Our own little bubbles. Sometimes we build these realities on our own, and other times we allow these realities to be created around us. Sometimes it feels that we are slowly sinking ever more deeply into…
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Have you heard of the term “shaking the box”? It’s a great way to trigger new thinking – or at least try to unearth current hidden thinking. When encountering a situation, you go into it with the express purpose of creating disruption, just to see what people’s reactions are – and what you can observe…
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A few posts back, I wrote a note about something I’d recently seen in one of the all-hands meetings of one of my clients. This financial services company had been in business for a very long time, and moving innovative products and services to market was a huge challenge. Even in good times, this firm…
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Something I learned: the human brain is a fantastic thing. Have you ever looked around you and marveled at your surroundings (unless you are sitting in a forest right now) and realized that a human invented almost everything around you? Your keyboard, your computer, your monitor, your desk, your mouse, your smartphone, paper, pens, video…
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