May 2012
13 posts
How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue...
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The main difference between a bricks-and-mortar...
Last week I did visit a golf store to buy some new shoes. While I drove by with the car, I could not find their parking, as the area was completely closed and there were no signs at all. When I finally did enter the store (at 10.20 am) they were still vacuum cleaning. Not a good sign, why can’t you make sure that this is done before the store opens?I did go straight to the shoes and looked...
The higher the expectations, the lower the...
There is a growing interest in creativity and in innovation. More and more leaders see the need to increase the rate of innovation. But many leaders are using old-fashioned methods to incentivize these efforts. For instance they will give a large bonus if the innovation meets or exceeds the targets. Most of the time this will a negative effect on the performance and not (the intended)...
For whom are you innovating?
Just a few weeks ago I had a short flight to Copenhagen. And again the check-in process keeps on surprising me. I am used to the self service terminals. It is still amazing that there are a lot of customer service repr’s needed to assist people with registering. Clearly the process to check-in your self is still not very easy and intuitive.
The same applies to...
A new social compact needed - The Creative...
Every human being is creative. That the Creative Class enjoys vastprivileges is true, but to acknowledge that fact is not to endorse it. The essential task beforeus is to unleash the creative energies, talent, and potential of everyone—to build a society thatacknowledges and nurtures the innate creativity of each and every human being.<>Still, that new order will not simply or automatically...
Feedback is important, but …..
In our education system we are taught to focus on the weaknesses and the defects. That is the way we are being rated. The focus is on what is wrong, not on what is right. For example, you have 3 faults out of 10. We don’t say you have 7 good out of 10. The same negative focus is part of the performance review process. In one of my first formal reviews, my manager talked for 50 minutes about...
'Hackathon' Leads To Viable Tech Solutions For...
‘Hackathon’ Leads To Viable Tech Solutions For Homeless SAN FRANCISCO — On the foggy streets of San Francisco, tech superstars and the homeless can be hard to tell apart in their identical hoodies…. Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Seeing The Good In Others
RICK HANSON, PH.D.: Seeing The Good In Others Seeing the good in others is a simple but very powerful way to feel happier and more confident, and become more loving and more productive in the world. Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Innovators and entrepreneurs are the new...
Quote seen in DDC, the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen. Nice overview, but nothing mentioned about service design! Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
You are what you consume, and what enters your...
Seen in a window of a bookstore in Copenhagen. Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Five key skills that disruptive innovator’s... →
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Questioning allows innovators to challenge the status quo and consider new possibilities;
Observing helps innovators detect small details — in the activities of customers, suppliers and other companies — that suggest new ways of doing things;
Networking permits innovators to gain radically different perspectives from individuals with diverse backgrounds;
Experimenting prompts...
