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Not trying too hard

21 July 2010

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 thinking can happen. Edison allegedly trained himself to spend time in the twilight zone between waking and sleeping. As she writes These a-ha moments spring

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Willpower and its limits

5 July 2010

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. They split people into two groups for a series of experiments. One group was primed for willpower (eg by having to write out the phrase

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The power of touch

4 July 2010

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 good to see this research reported by Ed Yong that goes further suggesting that the weight of the clipboard has a significant impact on our

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Empathy and innovation

24 May 2010

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 territory. One of the supposed challenges of innovation is getting ideas to spread and Tim argues that empathy is pretty key to that especially if

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Re-examining the familiar

21 May 2010

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 they can perform it by rote the individual steps that make up the skill come together into larger and larger units. As a consequence, the

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Kindergarten kids beat MBAs

10 May 2010

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 Let’s Play

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Agile Procurement

8 April 2010

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

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Innovation theatre: empty rituals

7 April 2010

(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 bother about innovation more hat than cattle?) As a child I was made to go to church where my father would lend me his wristwatch.

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Innovation, or just innovation theatre?

1 April 2010

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 that might create a sense of security but don’t actually work. Action theatre is what happens in organisations where there are lots of rituals to

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Noticing…

27 March 2010

Dan Pallotta makes a lot of sense to me. More often than not we see life through a barely translucent movie screen in our minds that is running nine shows at once. These inputs deafen and blind us to reality. It is a testament to our capacity for unconsciousness that

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