I have a lot of synonyms for learning. ‘Risk taking’ is one. ‘Truth telling’ is another. A sense of safety is crucial for learning. If there isn’t a sense of safety, it becomes very difficult to learn. – Canice McGarry There’s powerful form of learning which takes place when you get out of your natural [...]
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. – John Ruskin All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. – Grant Wood (There’s something about those two guys [...]
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The Chief Innovation Officer of a major UK commercial bank says it’s important to drown puppies. No, this is not about animal cruelty. His “drowning puppies” is the way he manages potentialities, be it in the form of new ideas, conversational input, projects or initiatives. Drowing puppies is about culling down the number of potential directions to take, and [...]
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Picking up from the comments on an earlier post, Don’t Productize Me, Bro The firm Blackcoffee recently put together a neat little feedback page with the following request: Please add your definition of brand, by finishing the sentence “A brand is…” http://www.blackcoffee.com/blog/a-brand-is/ There’s a nice analysis of the responses they’ve gotten here: http://deniseleeyohn.com/bites/2009/09/03/an-analysis-of-a-brand-is/ (hat tip to [...]
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