Scribbles, Jots, Notes and Napkins (part 3)

 

 

• What's your Escape Velocity?  The rate of speed at which you move from old useless ideas and processes to valuable and innovative thinking.

• Its not who you know that counts.  Its how you know them and how they know you that will determine how valuable and useful that relationship is and how to  translate that into an opportunity. 

• It is imperative that you are perpetually shifting your orbits.  If you only hang out at the dollar store that's all you'll ever know.  You should multiply your orbits and begin circling, not only the dollar store but, boutiques, multinational corporations, the local jazz spot, your neighborhood park, or the cafe down the street, and you will begin to see how different people are in their environments which will give you unique insights into how the world works.  This in turn creates a value that you can bring to the table that can be used and/or seen as a huge asset.

• How do you use the worlds of science, anthropology, physics, sociology, and design, to develop business ideas?  Well with new language comes new concepts.  Creativity comes in being able to use the language of these areas in conjunction with business communications to invent, conceptualize and create novel ideas and approaches to  problems and challenges you  are trying to address.

• John Kao, a Stanford University professor of management and a jazz pianist , made the connection in his book, Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity, which takes jazz and jamming as a metaphor for the process for creativity. - The Creative Economy, How People Make Money From Ideas

• Transcreation- - The translating of words and ideas across social cultures.

•  A new brand of small and highly specialized businesses is now capable of operating globally and even disrupting existing business models. - quote from an IBM research initiative.

• Good design illustrates its ability to grasp momentous revolutions that demand huge adjustments in human behavior and convert them into objects people can understand and use.

• Cultures change and adapt their concepts of time, just as they can revise and change their notion of of work.  Every society has its own social time.  Social time determines a general path of life - when you do what.  It tells you when to eat, when you should got to school, when you are old enough to drink, drive, get married of retire.  - Joanne Ciulla

Comments

[Josh Smith]

That IBM quote is priceless. It's also pretty amazing how we're able to pull ideas from so many schools of thought and apply them to business nowadays. It's equally as amazing that the people that refuse to do so are being left in the dust.We're moving at such a breakneck speed- it's amazing how many companies have not jumped onto all the great tools that are out there and are stuck in the "message" "key points" corporate speak model. That jamming book sounds rad- have to check that one out. Right on.

[Rasul Sha'ir]

Thanks for the comment!

[Alison Claire]

from Henry and June/ "The Diary of Anais Nin" (Anais speaking about her lover, the writer Henry Miller):

"He writes...on the back of discareded "notes' - fifty ways of saying "drunk," information on poisons, names of books, bits of conversation. Or lists like this: "Visit Cafe des Mariniers on river bank near Exposition Bridge off Champs Elysees - sort of boarding house for fisherment. Eat "Bouillabaisse," Caveau des Oubliettes, Rouges. Le Paradis, Rue Pigalle - rough point, pickpockets, apaches, etc. Fred Payne's Bar, 14 Rue Pigalle (see the Art Galerie downstairs, rendevous of English and American show girls). Cafe de la Regence, 261 rue St. Honore (Napolean and Robespierre played chess here. See their table)."

[Alison Claire]

...and, on what she does with his letters and notes...

"Avalanches. I have tacked up on the wall of my writing room Henry's two big pages of words, culled here and there, and a panoramic map of his life, intended for an unwritten novel. I will cover the walls with words. It will be "la chambre des mots."