Archive for January, 2007
Experiencing insight: which comes first, age or beauty?
Can a group of eclectic and divergent innovators pick winners in ways "experienced" veterans can't? Is experience all it's made out to be when the game is new ventures?
Forget tailor-made, just get it second-hand.
In an offline note a good friend challenges the concept of new, tailor-made companies. Instead he asks, “What about companies that need tailors … companies that need a new dress, ugly companies, those ones that need new shoes … …
Creating tailor-made companies
I keep running into amazing people. Each one stuck in a job that uses a tiny part of what they're great at. Here's a plan to use a bit more.
A master at play
Henry David Thoreau’s taste for life is, for me, unmatched in its perception, power, and vitality. From earnest to silly, most of it sings. His journal … it’s like watching Michelangelo whittle. The rippling strength of a master at play.…
Synchronizing greatness
Here’s an unsolved riddle: How do we get the minds of widely dispersed, brilliant people to focus on critical problems/opportunities? How do we synchronize greatness?
Dave Pollard brought this up a few days ago. He writes:
“… we don’t need …
Invoking innovation: moving beyond serendipity
Innovative brilliance is fortuitous. It's an accident. The challenge is moving beyond serendipity and to intention.
Invite and inspire brilliance
How do we invite brilliant people to try and fail quickly, over and over again, in very small ways?