In my job, I hear many executives asking “to shake the tree”. What does that mean ? The temptation to just “Pump-up-the-volume” or let the innovation engine run “red hot” is just around the corner. “Let’s come up with a list of hundreds of initiatives and “tricks”, and we’re done.” Tick ? Don’t think so. [...]
Archive for February, 2011
How to create deep sustainable change
Posted in Corporate Values, HR, Innovation, Leading by Being, McLeod, Personal Values, Think Tank on February 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Digital Identity Tour Part-4: Austin–Munich–Toronto
Posted in Banks, Identity, Innotribe, Innovation, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Privacy, Think Tank, WebTrends on February 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This post is a fourth in a series on personal digital identity. Part-1 “The unpolished diamond was published here in August 2010 and Part-2 ‘The Digital Identity Tuner” was published here in September 2010. Part-3 “Personal Data Something” was published here in December 2010. The journey continues. Now we move into Austin for TEDxAustin and [...]
Team dynamics and the fiction of friendship
Posted in Books, Corporate Values, Identity, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Transhumanism, Worldviews on February 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Check out this wonderful RSA animation about Steven Pinker’s “Language as a Window into Human Nature” Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. But I looked at this animation and was triggered by how much this relates to how our economies, companies, teams, ourselves and [...]
Farsight 2011 Highlights: what explosion of information really means
Posted in Identity, Innovation, Robots, Singularity, Think Tank, Transhumanism on February 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Have a look at a couple of the excellent videos on this wrap-up site about Farsight2011. I could spent days and days in this space. All my favorites, including Hedge Fund Manager and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Recorded Future co-founder and CEO Chris Ahlberg, journalist entrepreneur Esther Dyson, and many more in one big long [...]
Innotribe Special Session at SOFA: The new thinkers
Posted in Banks, Books, Corporate Values, Enjoy, Fun, Innotribe, Innovation, Money, Personal Values on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SOFA stands for SWIFT Operational Forum Americas, a yearly event targeted at a typical operational audience. This year’s SOFA is on 8-9 March 2011 in NYC. The theme for SOFA 2011 is “Defining the next generation of financial services”. Innotribe is SWIFT’s innovation initiative. Innotribe’s mission is ‘Enabling Collaborative Innovation’. Part of our [...]
