A SIMPLE HACK TO POWER BETTER PROBLEM SOLVING
At the heart of innovation and creativity is a unique approach to problem solving. Did you know that we can grow food from microbes? We can now reproduce milk, beef, chicken and eggs all in a lab by growing them using microbes.
THE POWER OF RISK: CULTIVATING A FAILURE-FRIENDLY CULTURE FOR SUCCESS
On the 14th of October 2024, the crews at SpaceX made aerospace history in catching their returning Starship rocket. The unpiloted 23-storey booster rocket flawlessly docked with micro-precision, bringing with it a new dawn in ‘rapid reusability’
HOW SMARTPHONES ARE KILLING CREATIVITY: THE LINK BETWEEN BOREDOM AND CURIOSITY
As a kid I remember moaning to my mother about being bored. I remember long afternoons just sitting on the sidewalk with my friend Peter, wondering how to pass another day. It was the early 1980s and the only screens worth watching were Saturday morning cartoons on our clunky family TVs. Thinking back to those […]
FAILING TO INNOVATE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RISK, FAILURE & RESILIENCE
I am successful, not at everything but at some things. I am a failure, not at everything but at some things. Both are true at the same time. We need to stop viewing the relationship between failure and success as some sort of continuum, this illusion that they are somehow opposites. They are not. Failures […]
ESCAPING THE INNOVATION SLUDGE: CATALYZING PERSONAL CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
When I was about 6 years old, I was exploring local woods with my older sister (she was 3 years older than me then… amazingly she still is … I always thought I’d eventually catch up…). We were about a 10-minute walk from our home, unsupervised. Well, it was the early 1980s, different times and […]
HOW TO HOST A GREAT VIRTUAL EVENT
12+ months after the initial pandemic moved events to a virtual platform, I have noticed a very dichotomous market. Some clients really get it and are outputting amazing virtual events, while others still think an MS Teams or Zoom meeting counts as an ‘event’. Remember you are organizing a virtual event. It is not a […]
UNLEASH YOUR INNOVATION: RELEASING YOUR INNER CHAOS NINJA
2020 has been nothing if not chaotic. Khaos was one of the first Greek primordial Gods, emerging at the dawn of creation. The word khaos means “gap” and, as such, she represented the space between the heavens and earth, the mix of elements, of potential, the white space. It is the origin of the English […]
YOUR 3 CHOICES IN SURVIVING CHANGE
change’ said 2,500 years ago by Greek philosopher Heraclitis. I don’t know what kind of changes he was referring to in 500 BC, but his outlook is as true today in our fast-moving disruptive world as it was in his. Change creates opportunities and kills businesses everyday. But of course, it is not change itself […]