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

Irimi

'Irimi' means enter in Japanese.

• When an attack comes head on, in Aikido we instantaneously slide to the side, enter the opponent's dead angle and avoid the blow.

Do we have the courage to enter new territory?
Go into the unknown, where we are not clear where is the beginning or where is the ending.
What is clear is our intention,
Though we know not how to achieve it yet - Azim Pawanchik

As soon as
The enemy before me
Attacks with his sword
I am already
Standing behind him

When enemies
Rush in to strike
Take one step in
To the side,
And cut deeply! - Morihei Ueshiba

Core

What is your core?

Who am I?
What do I value?
What am I passionate about?
What do I believe in?

Divergence

Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
- Robert Frost

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive, and discovers - Jean Piaget

Innovation 3.0

Innovation 1.0 = Invention + Products
Innovation 2.0 = Technology + Web
Innovation 3.0 = Mindset + Culture