What we really need to land the job!

James — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:23:50 +0000

I had a very interesting conversation with Georgina Kelly yesterday on Nightline.

We were talking about how some ethnic groups seem to be able to command more in terms of salary in the workplace than others.

Maybe this was the case, not only in Dubai but globally, but things are changing and fast.

Have skills get paid!

Re-learn innovative practice?

James — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:00:49 +0000

Professor Joeseph Packard of RIT and Johnson&Johnson joined me for a romp through the field of innovation education.

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 and the essence of innovation, VuJa De!

Looking at a familiar situation with a new set of eyes!

Tom Kelley of IDEO has used this idea to the extreme in his writing.

Chip and Dan Heath in “Made to Stick” have an interesting take on innovation.

What can we reduce successful innovation to?

COMMUNICATING WITHIN YOUR GROUP OF INNOVATORS AND BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE TO THOSE WHO YOU NEED TO SELL THE IDEA TO!

What about the global recession and innovation?

Go back and read Josef Schumpeter.

The success of a business in a time of recession is in thinking smarter! INNOVATION in the face of adversity.