Final part of my appearance on Astro Awani

Part II: My views of Innovation and Entreprenuership on Astro Awani

Hear my views on Entreprenuership part I (In Bahasa Malaysia)

Creating in Innovative Mindset with Vijay Govindarajan

The Future of Management by Gary Hamel

The Future Of Management

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Meet Masitah Babjan: Malaysia's Mindmapping Guru

Meet Masitah Babjan, from Mashal Management Consulting; Malaysia's Mind mapping Guru.

On the 22nd and 26th of June 2009, she had a very challenging task of mind-mapping the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Thinking (ICOT) 2009.

She mind-mapped the session given by Tony Buzan, Howard Gardener, Edward De-Bono, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and also the discussion on One Malaysia.

Its challenging enough to do large scale mind-mapping, but its another story to do it while listening to a speaker. In the age of Facebook and Tweeter, nothing beats going back to basics; using paper, pen and your imagination.


Congratulations Masitah.

10,000 Hours to Mastery = i(1):P (99)

How long does it take someone to master something new?

There are many views of this area. When I started practicing Aikido(a Japanese martial arts), my Sensei (Sensei Marcus) kept repeating that to master a technique you need to practice it ten thousand times. Its about practice, practice and more practice. In the area of management , many management gurus and business professors argues that it takes about 10 years for an individual to be a master or be a thought leader in their chosen area.

I saw the same message in Malcom Gadwell's latest book Outliers. In the book he reported that many studies suggested that the key to success in any field has nothing to do with talent. It's simply practice, 10,000 hours of it — 20 hours a week for 10 years. One of his example is the Beatles, which performed 1,200 times from 1960 to 1964 in Germany, and thereby clocking in more than 10,000 hours before they began creating a revolution in the music industry. If we break that down, that about practicing something 4 hours a day, five days a week for the next ten years. If you double the daily time to eight hours a day, it will take five years.

I guess there is plenty of truth in Thomas Edison's quote that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration or play, practice or prototypes. I guess in the of age innovation, mastery can equate to iP or intellectual property. In this case comes from 1% i and 99% P.

The challenge that I see is to get the equation right because I've seen many people with plenty of P but lack the inspiration or insight. On the flip side I've see many people with plenty of inspiration, ideas and imagination but stop short in putting their insight into action.

In conclusion, I believe that to master something you need to get the ratio right; 1:99, in fact 0.1(i): 99.9 i (P) is still very reasonable.

Well, what are you waiting for?

Start playing, prototyping, practicing and perspiring.

Why do we tweet, FB and blog?

I am one of the late adopters of the social media. I'm still figuring out how should I use it, when should I use and what is the value of these tools.

Do we use it to keep in touch?
Do we use it to share?
Do we use it to brag?
Do we do it to be famous (number of friends or followers)?
Do we do it to make money?
Do we do it to be part of the gang?
Do we do it to sell?
Do we use to learn?
Do we use it to reflect?

Or do we use just because its there.

I've seen many interesting posting as well as a generous amount of useless posting/information. I've seen people busy twittering at conferences sharing what is happening at the conferences that others who is not there would be able to catch a glimpse of what is happening. I sometime wonder why is there such generosity. Secondly wonder whether while all of this is happening, do people have the time to really pay attention and reflect; and pause to think and generate new insights into what is going on instead of just merely reporting what is being said.

I am still experimenting with many applications such as Tweetdeck, Hailer , Ning and many more. The experiments still continues, but for now I will start blogging more seriously to capture my own thoughts as well as share it with others.

There's always cash for cheap branded goods.

The Cineleisure, Kota Damansara 11am. I was on the way to the IT Centre to purchase my 1TB hard disk when I saw a huge crowd.

What was this? Why is there such a long line. Is there someone from American Idol or maybe Najib was around. Went closer and discovered the the source. Warehouse Clearance Sale - ZARA, Massimo Dutti etc. Malaysian's will always have money for good bargains regardless they need the product or not.

I'm sure it is of good value. In fact the current economic crisis have forced many companies to be very innovative with their pricing. McDonald's began the game, and within a short period Wendy's, KFC followed suit. Even Starbucks is offering a great bargain, coffee and small sandwich for less than RM 8. How will the mamak stalls survive this price war (just joking. I'm sure they will)? Who will win in the end? At this moment I think its the consumers. Looking forward towards more warehouse sales and lunch time bargains.

How to Grow Creativity

Creativity

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time to pLaY

Time to invest in Creativty. Listen to Tom Peters

Embracing Constraints in Action

Twitter
Haiku
Minimalist Design
SMS
Espresso
Muji
KENYA HARA
IKEA
Air Asia
Easy Jet
Tune Hotel
Nasi Lemak Bungkus
iPod
Mac Air
Alia Hotel Jakarta
Mindmapping
Visual Thinking
Youtube
Aikido
Picasso
Whose Line is it Anyway
Grameen Bank + Professor Yunus

Handpresso - Innovative Espresso

Serious PlaY in aCtioN

IDEO Global Chain Reaction from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.