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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Innovation Where?

Zimbabwe the crisis We talk about innovation, leadership, ideas and we then talk some more. But when the chips are down you like me have to admit that we have really failed! YES I am suggesting that we have failed to innovate. Failed to lead. Failed to work as a team. And the reason I [...]

Time to sieze education back…

For too long I have been tossing a lot of cold water on the global education establishment. IB programs do IB but are not IB. Outcome based learning works to outcomes but doesn’t live the outcomes. For four years I have been lucky to be able to go to some very expensive conferences that CEO’s [...]

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