Contextual Awarenesess

How aware are we of our surroundings?
The context that we exist in; the past, the present and the possible future.
Only when we are aware of these three elements, are we able to move with the flow.
Act from the core.

In the Japanese martial art Aikido, there is a concept called sen (anticipation) that is crucial to achieve victory. It is the essence of anticipation and control.In Aikido, sen emerges from a mind that is unbound, where one has no preconceived notion.

In the old days, anticipation was categorized into three levels:

Sen - To anticipate and seize the initiative to overcome an opponent.
Sensen no sen - to control the opponent's mind and use that opening to win.
Go no sen - to respond to your opponent's attack by reading them as they occur.


Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate - Chuang Tzu.

Creativity Flow And The Psychology of Discovery and Invention - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

This a great book on the concept of flow and facilitation.

Courage - Irimi(Enter)

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult - Seneca

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it- safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary - Cecil Beaton

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong - Joseph Chilton Pearce

Innovation 3.0 - CK Prahalad

A must see video by the global innovation guru on the new age of innovation.

Innovation to the Core

This is a great book by Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson on the fundamentals of innovation. Gary Hamel's influence on this book is very obvious. The book looks at:

• How to rapidly enlarge and enhance your innovation pipeline with breakthrough ideas
• How to systematically innovate across all the components of your business model
• How to dramatically improve the efficiency of your innovation spending
• How to use the power of IT to enable and manage innovation across the enterprise
• How to balance the tension between day-to-day operations and radical innovation
• How to put systems and processes in place, that make innovation self-sustaining

Pause

As things get faster and faster,
More chaos than certainty,
The only choice left is to slow down,
Some time to Pause......
Lets things happen naturally - Azim Pawanchik

It takes a lot of time to be a genius;
You have to sit around so much doing nothing,
Really doing nothing - Gertrude Stein

Every now and then go away, even briefly,
Have a little relaxation,
For when you come back to your work your judgment will be clearer;
Since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power - Leonardo Da Vinci

Blend!Blend!Blend

How do we blend perspectives?
How do we blend needs?
How do we blend ideas?
How do we blend solutions?
How do we be impactful? - Azim Pawanchik

There is nothing new expect what has been forgotten - Marie Antoinette

Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known - Loris Malaguzzi

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together - Antonin Artaud

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing - Robert Bresson

Thus, the task is not so much to see
what no one yet has seen,
but to think what nobody yet has thought
about that which everybody sees - Schopenhauer



The Medici Effect
Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts & Cultures
- Frans Johansson

This is an excellent book on blending

Learning to learn

Do we know how to learn?
Do we know how to remember?
Do we know how to use what we know?
Do we know how to find out what we need to know?
Do we do it if we don't know how?

BUILD to LEARN!

The only competitive advantage the company of the future will have is its managers' ability to learn faster than the competitors - Arie de Geus

The Learning Organization
In an uncertain world, where all we know for sure is that nothing is sure, we are going to need organizations that are continually renewing themselves, reinventing themselves, reinvigorating themselves. These are learning organizations, the ones with the learning habit.

Without that habit of learning, they will not dream the dream, let alone have any hope of managing it - Charles Handy, Managing the Dream

Climate Change

How much longer can we continue burning and destroying without thinking of the consequences. We need to learn from nature to use our natural resources wisely - Azim Pawanchik

Nature's Law
Nature runs on sunlight
Nature only uses the energy it needs
Nature fits form to function
Nature recycles everything
Nature rewards cooperation
Nature banks on diversity
Nature demands local expertise
Nature curbs excess from within
Nature taps the power of limits - Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry

Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given to him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier - Anton Chekhov