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Babies and Creativity

March 13, 2010

I’m reading a book that I am enjoying enormously, and although I haven’t finished it yet, I found a passage that I appreciated so much that I wanted to post it here because it says so much about innovation.
“An animal that depends on the accumulated knowledge of past generations has to have some time to [...]

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Predicting the Future: Trend Spotting Resources

March 8, 2010

Product Trends and Inspiration

Most people who have been engaged in creativity and innovation, at some point, come to realize that cross pollination and lateral thinking are important sources for creating insights and generating breakthrough solutions to complex problems. I imagine most people have come to rely on particular resources for their inspiration and for providing [...]

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The Unknown, the Future, and the Impossible

January 11, 2010

“We sell our souls at the altar of the incremental.”
Well, we do if we embrace the view that that change is slow and steady, and comes out of what came before.
But what if it doesn’t?  What if change is radical, disruptive, breakthrough?
Innovation is always a matter of the dialog between these two poles, between the [...]

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Creative Tension: Blessing, Curse, and Essential

December 16, 2009

A landmark event occurred yesterday.  Well, a minor landmark in any case.  I was on a long flight, and the airline was playing a movie that I actually wanted to see.  (As you can tell, my definition of a landmark has become rather modest these days…)
It was a movie about creativity and innovation, a movie [...]

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