Dominic Campbell’s challenge to clumsy government procurement has the best title of the year – It’s Time People Got Fired for Hiring IBM. The rest is pretty good too..
Government has a uniquely long and drawn-out procurement process weighed down by red tape and requirements and an unhealthy addiction to big initiatives over many small innovations.
Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by
A while ago I wrote about action theatre. It was inspired by Bruce Schneier’s term security theatre, to describe tiresome security measures at airports etc
(This is the second in a series of somewhat ranty posts I started the other day. General theme: is a lot of the fuss and
Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.) Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work
I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer’s work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that
Tim Kastelle has a good post about Empathy and Innovation. I’m fond of talking about “relationships before ideas” and Tim seems to be in similar
I’ve long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it’s
Nice report on research from Scientific American: Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question.
Jocelyn Glei writes about What we can learn from babies. She talks about the kind of meditative state in which a particular kind of creative
I posted this cartoon about six years ago*. It’s one of those throwaway posts that I notice still gets picked up by others. I often
A big hat-tip to Stefan Liute for his post The biological hardware for culture. He points to this article from the NY Times: Cells that read minds. Here are a
I just got linked from the Office-Max blog. It seems to be some kind of corporate blog but there is no “about” page or any clue as to its author.
Kathy Sierra comments on this morale-sapping policy at Mrs Fields Cookies: Employees must throw away ALL unpurchased cookies at the end of the night. Employees are expressly forbidden from taking
