Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
How Google Creates an Innovation Culture
Here’s an article on nine things Google states it does in order to not only create an innovation culture, but to make sure the ideas and creativity of its workers turn into something meaningful and in alignment with the goals of the company.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
100 Lists of 100
A while back I mentioned a separate blog I was keeping to organize my thoughts and efforts as I work on the book I am writing, Harness Your Passions (working title). Recently, this article on sparking your creativity through creating lists of 100 prompted me to start another blog (because that’s what I do lately [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Gaming For Rice
This is one of my favorite innovations I’ve come across in a while. The United Nations has a fun, challenging vocabulary game with a unique way of keeping score. You earn grains of rice, which the UN will donate, by playing successfully. My mind reels at the opportunities that might exist to set up similar [...]
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
getFreshBlogroll
getFreshMinds.com is my favorite website of the moment. I have a lot of material to burn through on that site before it looses its “favorite” status, from the looks of it. One of my favorite ideas is having an industrial strength vacuum hose built into the floor of your car, ready to come out and [...]
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
On the Subject of Mirror Neurons…
Don’t want to lose this link to an article about Mirror Neurons and Happy People - it’s one of the biggest pieces to the jigzaw puzzle of hacking one’s passions I’m working on that I’ve found yet. It also explains… me, better than any attempts I have previously struggled through, particularly the part on happy [...]