Water

We can never step in the same river twice - Heraclitus.
Each moment in life is also unique. We cannot recreate the same moment.

Hand Railing for a Child

A well conceived design.
I captured this image in Singapore. It is a picture of a staircase at an overhead bridge with two hand railings. The lower one is for children. Design begins with a heart or empathy, not technology.

What is creativity and innovation?

The answer would depend a lot on who you talk to.
Many equate creativity with art while innovation with an invention, product or R&D. 3M, one of the world's serial innovator defined it as "New Ideas - plus action or implementation - which results in an improvement, gain or profit".

Conception

What is the meaning of conception?

To have an insight
To see something new
To understand something new
To see a new problem
To see a new question
To see a new connection
To see a new obstacles
To see a new challenge

Go Visual

Storytelling

When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact - Daniel H. Pink, A whole New Mind.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories - Roger C. Schank

Pictures

Words are but pictures of our thoughts - John Dryden

A soul cannot think without a picture - Aristotle

Metaphors

According to Charles J. Palus and David M. Horth in The Leader's Edge, metaphor is a technique of explaining one thing in terms of another and is superb way to create new ideas and understanding.


Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art - Twyla Tharp

Leading The Revolution - Gary Hamel

In this book Hamel argues that to thrive in the age of revolution, companies must adopt a radical new innovation agenda. The fundamental challenge companies face is reinventing themselves and their industries not just in times of crisis-but continually.

Hamel demonstrates how to:

• Utilize the tools and perspectives that are crucial to inventing new business concepts and reinventing old ones
  

• Identify the key design criteria for building companies that are activist-friendly and revolution-ready
  

• Harness the imagination of every employee

Aikido and Creativity

There are lessons to be learnt from all around us. In learning Aikido for example, I discovered that size and power does not matter.

We can control the whole body by focusing on small elements that really matters. I believe this beautiful martial art practices the the are of embracing constraints. The economics of movement, space and energy expenditure in living art.