These days, when i kick-off an innovation workshop, i ask the participants “tell me about your hobbies/interests when you were 16-18 years old”. The answers and the resulting effect are surprising. First, it opens up people in a way they are not used to. The come out of their “i-am-at-work” comfort zone. Some people that [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Creative juices everywhere
Posted in Banks, Enjoy, Generation-M, Innotribe, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Transhumanism, Vizualizations on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Chose the situation… and defer judgment
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Personal Values, Worldviews on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Guest post by Mariela. Sometimes i get comments on this post that are too good to be hidden in the comments section. Here is one from Mariela on my previous post “Purpose Maximizers and Candies” Some comments on Candy 2 (as the person who unearthed this particular post, I guess it is no wonder that [...]
Purpose Maximizers and Candies
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Innotribe, Innovation, Think Tank, Worldviews on May 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What is it that motivates people to come to work, be happy and do a great job ? I am a bit bored these days with all sort of “manifestos” and all sorts of “Power of Now”, “Power of Push”, Power of Why”, “Power of…” What about candies ? If you company is looking into [...]
Precision Information Environments
Posted in Augmented Reality, Desktop, Singularity, Think Tank, User Interface, Vizualizations on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stumbled upon this very well made video (make sure you look at the annotated version of it). Found via Brainpickings. Great example on how many emerging technologies and concepts — including ubiquitous displays, crowdsourcing, pervasive sensor networks and adaptive user interfaces come together. When you look at this, think iPAD 2.0, think Identity 3.0, think [...]
Let’s Prepare the Future !
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Generation-M, global brain, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Semantic Web, Singularity, Think Tank, Transhumanism, Worldviews on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This article is a cross-post of an essay that i prepared for The Fifth Conference and that was published this week. The Fifth Conference is a forum for vision. Part publisher and part conference, The Fifth Conference tackles the ‘big issues’, the factors that drive our future. Think ten, twenty, even fifty years [...]
Get a Life and Get Alive
Posted in Banks, Books, Corporate Values, Fun, Generation-M, HR, Identity, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Transhumanism, Worldviews on May 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
It’s quite some time ago i did a post with brand new content. It’s partly because i also have a family and a job, but mainly because i only feel the urge to blog when i have real content to contribute. These days i also share an awful lot via twitter: that’s where the day-to-day [...]
