Ideas as global currency
We live in troubled times, but then haven’t we always? This time around it is fears of a global meltdown of the banking system, whole countries going bankrupt and the abject failure of capitalism. At...
View ArticleReinvigorating your creativity
Dean Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, has spent a number of years studying genius, creativity and leadership. Some of his research has backed up the theory that...
View ArticleVersatilist cities
My IBM colleague, Dr. Rick Robinson, blogs here as The Urban Technologist where he writes about emergent technology and smarter cities. This particular post from Rick called Digital Platforms for...
View ArticleVersatilist Communities
It seems that we are living in more and more chaotic times. The weather is unprecedentedly unpredictable, the banking systems seem to be failing and Europe is in an economic crisis as capitalism and...
View ArticleDisrupt yourself
Whilst researching an article for my other blog recently I came across this quote from Bob Metcalfe , the founder of 3Com and co-inventor of Ethernet: “Be prepared to learn how the growth of...
View ArticleThe tools we use
There is a question often asked about photographers which is why do they spend so much time looking at, comparing and then buying the latest camera or lens when virtually no other artist indulges in...
View ArticleHarnessing the Winner Effect
The psychologist Professor Ian Robertson has recently published a book called The Winner Effect. Professor Robertson also blogs on this and other topics here. For those who have not come across this...
View ArticleWhat happens when your job becomes a commodity?
As a would be photographer I follow a lot of photography blogs and web sites and recently came across this post, What Happens When Photography Becomes A Commodity? in which the author says:...
View ArticleMore gapology
A while ago (two years to be precise) I wrote a brief post introducing the science (sic) of gapology. You can read the post here. I’d like to think Seth Godin read my post when writing about another...
View ArticleOn becoming a versatilist
This week I ran a session on why being a versatilist is going to be key to solving some of the worlds wicked problems and help us build a smarter planet. The idea was to introduce the concept of...
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