Here’s a 3½ minute video of Shaquille O’Neal conducting the Boston
December 27, 2010
How much are you training your right brain abilities?
Listening to this interview with Daniel Pink, I learned more about what people need to do to avoid that the work, they do, get outsourced.
The abilities, that we associate with the left side of our brain, i.e. logical, linear, sequential, spread-sheet abilities still matter, but they matter less. Work, that is basically about following a set of rules, can relatively easily be outsourced.
It is now abilities characterized by the right hand side of the brain, for example, artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big picture thinking, that matter most in several professions and industries.
What becomes valuable is what you cannot reduce to a set of rules.
Accountants, for example, need to work more on becoming financial advisors.
The abilities, that are hard to outsource and hard to automate - for example design, storytelling and seeing the big picture - are fundamentally human abilities.
Right brain abilities require a certain measure of autonomy and allowing experimentation to happen.
December 19, 2010
Get your creative confidence back
Via this tweet, I came across the interview embedded below with David Kelley of IDEO. Listening to Mr. Kelley, I learned, for example, that everybody is creative. However, when we educate ourselves, we are talked out of being creative and into using our analytical mind. We need to get our creative confidence back.
What are you doing to get your creative confidence back?
December 15, 2010
Surprise people positively
Listening to this interesting 23 minute conversation between Charlie Rose and Andrew Mason of Groupon, I learned, for example, that it is the element of discovery, of finding new things, of being surprised by whatever the deal is that makes Groupon fun for consumers. Groupon tries, according to Mr. Mason, to remain surprising in various ways. About 5 minutes into the conversation, Andrew Mason also mentions that people have a thirst for experiences.
Reflecting on the surprise effect, that Mr. Mason refers to at the start of the conversation, I also came to think of the 2 versions of Händel’s Hallejujah embedded below. Both versions of the song are, I think, beautifully performed by the competent artists. Notice - in the last of the 2 videos - the surprise effect. In this regard, consider also the cool idea of using a shopping centre as a venue for an experience like this. By the way, check out the faces of the kids in the video. They look completely amazed. I think I would be as well ;-)
December 12, 2010
4 forms of human intelligence: Being, feeling, thinking, and doing
Listening to Deepak Chopra, I learned that there are 4 forms of human intelligence:
# 1: Being
Being is the highest form of human intelligence.
# 2: The feeling that is aroused from the level of being
Love and compassion.
# 3: Thinking
Creativity
# 4: Doing
Doing is based on the 3 other forms of human intelligence mentioned above. This means, for example, that action without love is meaningless.
10 things that make a green city
I came across this slideshow about 10 things that make a great green city.
I noticed, for example, idea # 10: Farmers’ markets. What examples of great farmers' markets do you know in which cities?
December 08, 2010
Are you oriented towards the past, present, or the future?
Via this posting, I came across the 10 minute video embedded below. Watching the video, I learned that there are 6 main time zones that people live in:
# 1: Past positive orientation
People, who remember all the good old times, for example successes and happy birthdays.
# 2: Past negative orientation
People, who focus on regret, failure, and all the things that went wrong.
# 3: Present hedonism
People, who are hedonistic, i.e. people who live for pleasure, avoid pain, seek knowledge and sensation.
All of us begin life as present hedonists.
# 4: Present orientation 2
People who think their life is fated, for example by religion, poverty, conditions that they live under.
The nearer you are to equator, in an environment where climate doesn’t change, the more present oriented you are.
# 5: Future orientation 1
People, who have learned to work rather than to play, and who resist temptation.
# 6: Future orientation 2
People who think that life begins after the death of the mortal body.
All propaganda, public relations messages, educational messages are designed for future oriented kids. To be future oriented, you have to trust that when you make a decision about the future, it is going to be carried out. As an example, people living in Northern Italy tend to be more future oriented than people in Southern Italy . Also, protestants tend to be oriented towards the future, whereas catholics tend to be oriented towards past or present. Watching the video, I also learned that there’s a revolution in time going on. Kids today live in a digital culture. What matters is the second. Waiting has, even more than before, become a waste of time. For example, it makes people angry that a computer takes so long, i.e. a minute or so, to start up.
Are you oriented towards the past, the present, or the future?
December 06, 2010
December 05, 2010
How true are you to yourself?
Listening to this Thinkers50 interview with Kjell A. Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, I learned, for example, this:
Minute 3
Kjell A. Nordström mentions that “if there’s one thing that is very much the same as it was in 1999, it is the business school, and how we train people.”
Minute 5
Kjell A. Nordström says that “It’s a well known fact that Sweden , or Scandinavia in general, is a very good market to test a product.”
Minute 9
Jonas Ridderstråle explains that funky means to be authentic, to be true to yourself.
Minute 10
Kjell A. Nordström mentions that he’s involved in a company that makes plant walls. Mr. Nordström mentions that the company will grow a lot of things in the cities in the future. He also explains that they will probably use walls much more than they do today.
Minute 11
Telling a story about a person who, in the 1960s, succeeded a previously fantastic football player as the coach of Juventus, Jonas Ridderstråle refers to the answer that the new coach, who was – contrary to his predecessor in the coaching role – not a former great football player himself, gave a journalist. The journalist had asked the new coach how he could become the coach of the team, when he didn’t have any great history as a football player. The answer of the new coach: “You don’t have to be a great horse to be a jockey.”
December 04, 2010
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