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In search of the next best thing!

I wonder if at times the institutions of education are doing us a dis-service?
Think about it for a minute, we want people to take risks, create the next best thing, work as teams and WOW the population.
And we learn this where? School.
Sure we have IB schools that claim to do this BUT every IB school [...]

Why we fail?

One of our greatest problems today is the silo culture of education.
Business schools do not talk to design schools who do not talk to education schools who do not talk to IT schools and nobody is talking to the cooking schools.
Well, if the core elements of our education system are not relating to each other [...]

New Year’s Day, What I Read.

Leading up and out of New Year’s day I was consumed by the book, ‘The Road’.
Give the book a glance.
I think ‘The Road’ might be one of the most personally instructive (by way of reminding me what I have) book’s I have picked up in a long time.

I had not followed this book as an [...]

It is a PREZI world now

How many of you have gone from an overhead projector to PowerPoint, maybe Keynote, and are now feeling pretty comfortable?
Most of us have been using some variation of the slide projector/asetate presentation format all our lives.
But you know what? We now live  in a whiteboard era. Can you imagine using a chalkboard?
Yet we still use [...]

Innovation day

I don’t know if you read the blog by Diego Rodriguez called metacool, if not you should.
Look at the list of innovation principles on the right hand side!
Rodriguez puts a nice spin on innovation and maybe, just maybe, adds an element to the thought process that could re-focus what innovation is all about.
I hereby declare [...]

Why education today,ALL of it, gets an F!

We are in an education crisis today.
You know it.
Teachers know it.
Students know it.
Governments know it.
So, you ask, if the crisis of education is happening in front of or eyes why are we sitting on our hands and taping our mouths shut?
1. fear of change
2. change = admission of fault
3. new=unknown
4. suggests a complete societal re-think.
By [...]

TEDxDUBAI, October 10, 2009

Georgio Ungania and myself are in the thick of planning TEDxDubai.
TEDxDubai
What a process, I get the pleasure of telling my TED experience story over and over.
I must have told 50 people about TED and being at TED2009, and each time is as fresh as the 1st!
What is the TEDxDubai theme?
DREAM-DO-BE
FINDING INSPIRATION IN THE UNEXPECTED
Check TEDXDubai [...]

Re-learn innovative practice?

Professor Joeseph Packard of RIT and Johnson&Johnson joined me for a romp through the field of innovation education.
Professor Joeseph Packard talks about innovation education and more.
Maybe the issue is simply that we forget how to be innovative and get lulled into the belief that innovation needs to be complicated?
Back to that great comic George Carlin [...]

Rethink your personal economy with a bit of barter!

I think we have once again been failed by education!
We have had it drilled into us that cash is king.
But is it?
If I have a skill and you have a product and my skill is worth your product don’t we have good thing going? We trade and we are both happy, if you need my [...]

Auto Bail Out USA.

Here are some of the words we hope come out of the American business machine!
INNOVATION, CREATIVITY, ADAPTIVITY, CLARITY,FOCUS, LEADERSHIP, FORWARD, OUT-OF-THE-BOX and THINKING.
You know what? I am not sure that any of these words apply to the American Automotive industry.
The Washington Post has a nice re-cap of where the auto bail-out plan is today.
I would [...]

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