...Strategies for the Technical Professional October 13, 2014 The narrator Steven Johnson in the video “Where Good Ideas Come From” identifies several relevant situations (patterns) that he believes led to unusual levels of innovation or creativity. The introduction defines that Johnson looked for a shared/signature behavior or recurring patterns of innovations from the history of first cities to the biodiversity of coral reefs and rainforests. He said that these environments involved unusual levels of innovation. Through Johnson’s research and his quest for where good ideas are formulated, he mentioned certain moments of inspirations such as: a flash of insight, stroke of insight, epiphany, eureka, and lightbulb moments. However, he said that these moments share the basic assumption that an idea is a single thing. From here Johnson goes on to share situations (patterns) where he thinks good ideas are fostered: The Liquid Network: Johnson discussed that in early historical times that at a political dinner in a tavern provided a space or environment where a lot of ideas happened and it’s similar to coffeehouses of today. He also mentioned that the first coffeehouse in Oxford, England played a role in British culture for providing a space for not only consuming coffee but also a multi-space were people with different disciplines and backgrounds met to discuss anything from science to politics. Another example he used with regards to a work group situation: instead of having a...
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...The emotional intelligence of leaders. Leader to Leader, 10, 20-26 And McCrimmon, M. (2005, January) Thought leadership: a radical departure from traditional, positional leadership. Management Decision, 43 (7/8), 1064-1070 Summary 1 Goleman, D. (1998, fall). The emotional intelligence of leaders. Leader to Leader, 10, 20-26Leadership skills can be derived from various angles and most organizations have a certain style of leadership. Most of these styles come from studies and patterns of growth. Goleman (1998), in this article explains with illustrations how leadership should be construed and how one’s emotions play a huge role towards an effective style of leadership. The way you feel the type of person you are and the actions you take are essential in leadership skills. Leaders in top positions in various organizations have great credentials to show for it but, like Goleman pointed out, there are some that lead mainly on what they have studied, that is, their technical expertise. Hence, they are not open to emotionally leading that organization. Our emotions are who we are, they are imbedded in us. Goleman, goes further to give in-depth illustrations as to how the human brain is linked to what feelings we feel, be it happy or sad, regret or anger. Thinking your actions through before voicing them out has a lot to do with our emotions. Our thinking faculty and the emotional part of our brain (known as the amygdale) work side by side and these two are essential...
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... The emotional intelligence of leaders. Leader to Leader, 10, 20-26 And McCrimmon, M. (2005, January) Thought leadership: a radical departure from traditional, positional leadership. Management Decision, 43 (7/8), 1064-1070 Summary 1 Goleman, D. (1998, fall). The emotional intelligence of leaders. Leader to Leader, 10, 20-26 Leadership skills can be derived from various angles and most organizations have a certain style of leadership. Most of these styles come from studies and patterns of growth. Goleman (1998), in this article explains with illustrations how leadership should be construed and how one’s emotions play a huge role towards an effective style of leadership. The way you feel the type of person you are and the actions you take are essential in leadership skills. Leaders in top positions in various organizations have great credentials to show for it but like Goleman pointed out, there are some that lead mainly on what they have studied, that is, their technical expertise. Hence, they are not open to emotionally leading that organization. Our emotions are who we are, they are imbedded in us. Goleman, goes further to give in-depth illustrations as to how the human brain is linked to what feelings we feel, be it happy or sad, regret or anger. Thinking your actions through before voicing them out has a lot to do with our emotions. Our thinking faculty and the emotional part of our brain (known as the amygdale) work side by side and these two are essential for...
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...Strategies Lab 1 Mod 3 Well there’s always several good questions People are always wondering where good ideas come from how did the good ideas that reshape Americas future in the 1800’s come from? In the past before the Rise of Coffee and Tea was Beer and Wine where the idea processing was bad and always drunk all the time so when America went from a depressant to a stimulant ideas started rolling on the right track. Like a train track when the people relied on beer and wine for ideas was like adding Tons of butter to the railroad tracks the train always kept falling off topic. But when America switched to Tea and coffee the train tracks stayed on target and never fell of the track once. So what I’m saying is that America should have started drinking coffee sooner to help develop good water to eventually rely on the stuff for sources of good knowledge. But another most important thing about the ideas overall is the space the surroundings you finds yourself in like go to a coffee house talk with other people with different kinds of expertise. Eventually after talking with those people regardless of where you meet them just tossing a few ideas around eventually generates a good idea. But on the flip side of the coin they could also generate bad ideas as well as good ones. Sometimes hteres idea processes like the slow hunch where I person heard of an idea and puts it together like a mentally long puzzle and uses logic to put the puzzle pieces together. They happen in mere moments...
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...feedback from my learning team proved to be helpful. During the process of coming up with our presentations we were able to bounce ideas off of each other to perfect our ideas. The outcome from this was a better more rounded idea and presentation. The feedback I received also helped a lot through the class. I was made aware of flaws I had when I was presenting which enabled me to focus on them and fix them. Without the feedback from my group I may not have ever noticed these flaws. Continuing with how working with others can highly improve your presentation, at the same time it can also take a turn for the worse. Working with others you’re able to share ideas and collaborate to try and come up with the best idea. Sometimes this is a great thing as long as everyone agrees and works together. Where this can take a turn for the worse is when ideas conflict. If people do not agree on an idea and cannot compromise the groups moral can go downhill quick. When this happens things won’t get done the way they should. The presentation can easily fall apart. Another way it can be bad is if someone comes up with an idea and decides to change the group’s idea mid-way thru the project. If the group decides to go with that idea to make the member happy in can lead to failure. The idea may not be as well thought out and planed as the original. This can lead to a poor presentation where you do not get your message across to the audience. When this happens the entire goal of presenting your idea to...
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...Idea-Mashing: 3 Foolproof Ways to Find Your Awesome Story Idea I hear new fiction writers say that they’d love to write, but they just don’t have any ideas for stories. In Stephen King’s On Writing he writes this about getting story ideas - “… good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun.” — Stephen King, On Writing Taking two ideas and joining them into something new, like King described, is called idea-mashing. Yes, I just made that up. King writes that ideas come from nowhere, but the opposite is true — ideas come from everywhere. The trick is to expose yourself to great ideas and let them naturally...
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...are lending money look at the person first and foremost, so motivation is the most critical. You need to convince your bank manger you can make your business work because you’ve researched your market, you’ve costed out the business and you know where you want the business to be in 5 or 10 years time. A means of showing your commitment to the business would be to save and invest money. Abilities & skill: The second element is one of ability and skills. The individual has to have skills appropriate to the kind of business they’re proposing to run. And if they don’t have them, they should have a reliable person who can. It could be that one person knows how to run a business from an operational and management perspective, whereas another person has the technical skills to develop the product or service. Resources: The third element is resources. That’s not purely about money and equipment; it’s also about intellectual capability. (The ability to persuade others is important. Many entrepreneurs have been able to negotiate very favourable deals against the odds, when establishing their business). Strategy & vision: The fourth element is strategy and vision in terms of thinking four or five years ahead and having some idea of where that business might be in the future and putting in place a plan to achieve that goal. Planning & organisation: The fifth element is planning and organisation. Without planning, organisation, coordination and administration, the product won’t...
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...Creative Thinking in Daily Life. 1. I will do my analysis on planning a vacation. It might seem interesting, fun and spontaneous but it really is not. It takes a lot to plan from where to go? Is the place going to be kid or family oriented? The cost, the activities, is it in our family budget, I mean can we afford it. Do we have the same time off from work? How long are we going to be there? The right clothing to take and this means packing for four people. Vacations are really fun but to me it’s too much work and I love vacations which doesn’t make any sense. This is a problem to me because of all the things I have mentioned above. I would be better if we all agreed to going to one place. As a family everyone have a dream place they would like to visit and at times it feels like a competition because one comes up with this idea and someone else comes up with a different location so it ends up with compromising and understanding each other’s views and coming up with a common ground. 2. I have come to be able to distinguish between creative and critical thinking. Creative thinking is the art of having an idea and make it blossom in different directions, make it fun, livable and worth it by all means. Critical thinking is having this idea calmly taking time to evaluate the goods and odds of the idea covering all aspects of that idea and coming out with a conclusive agenda as to what and how one can handle the idea. In the idea of creative thinking in planning a vacation...
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...Book Summary Summary Introduction This document summarizes The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. The intent is to distill the major concepts from the book in note form for efficient perusal. Because only the main points of the book have been summarized here, reading the book in its entirety is highly recommended to get the full impact of the message Gerber conveys, as well as the dialogue in the book with one of his clients, Sarah, which provides additional insight on the concepts presented in the book. The ideas and text presented here are copyrighted works by Michael E. Gerber. Some of the text has been summarized for clarity and brevity. The E-Myth Revisited People who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more. Businesses fail when their owners spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. A business doesn’t miss the mark by failing to achieve greatness in some lofty, principled way, but in the stuff that goes on in the multitude of seemingly insignificant, unimportant, and boring things that make up every business (and life as well). The greatest business people have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world. The book is about four profound ideas that can mean the difference between the success and failure of a small business: 1. There is a myth in this country (the E-Myth) that says that...
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...created. It is just as valid as an idea as evolution, so why is only one theory being taught in our classrooms? Creationism should be taught alongside Evolution because students should be able to think on their own and decide what theory to believe. Both theories cannot be proven, so why not teach different perspectives? Evolution is not a fact, just theory and hypothesis. It is a belief. Some may even say, a faith. It might seem that people claim that creationism is religious doctrine, and it is, but evolution is just as religious as creationism. Both cannot be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Both take faith to believe them to be true. So creationism is just as valid as Evolution. Creationism came from religious views, but not everyone believes in the same religions. Evolution is a worldwide concept that many people have come to believe but they may not been exposed to these religions. “Dr. Bergman then went on to add, ‘If schools are to be a place where students can debate important questions, it would seem that eliminating religious questions would shelter students from an important area of debate which is crucial for living a well-rounded life.’” (Edwords, Frederick. "Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught As Science." National Center of Science Education. NCSE, n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2014. <http://ncse.com/cej/2/1/why-creationism-should-not-be-taught-as-science>.) Students that are not taught a religious perspective come across ideas that they have never heard of because...
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...necessity to recognize other considerations apart from those in which the evidence points to. If truth is the primary focus of our beliefs, sometimes it may necessary to take the risk of believing without solid evidence. Moreover, he clarifies that, although we sometimes have a choice in what we believe, there are many beliefs that we cannot will. James views faith in God as falling short of knowledge because we, as humans do not naturally experience the supernatural. However, he also explains that, such faith is sensibly meaningful to many people, and it is reasonable to wonder how, and to what extent it can be justified. James believes that both logic and science have limits beyond which we can legitimately seek rationality. James discusses genuine choice and stresses the three criteria for genuine choice; the choice must be live, forced, and momentous. In other words, personally meaningful, mutually exclusive and presented with an option and/or answer, and must involve potentially important consequences. James defines religion broadly, as having simply two elements, the first being that the best things are eternal, and second holding that we are better off believing in the first element rather than not. James acknowledges that in our scientific age, there is something uncertain about the view that, on some occasions, we can justifiably choose to believe in the absence of any objective justification. However, he claims we naturally do so repetitively, like believing in sincerity...
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...makes this idea less accepted in the modern day. The words we use, the connections we make; they are all different now from how they were when Plato coined these ideas. Plato’s doctrine of recollection from my understanding of it basically says that humans are born possessing all knowledge. It further says that we must discover it (rather than learn it). Whether or not you agree with Plato about this idea that we all have this knowledge prior to birth, we can agree on one known fact; by the time children reach the age in which they can reason, they are full of ideas within their minds. Some of these ideas may be correct, while others are not. This idea is exemplified in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Think about, for example, our lecture in Professor Davis’s class when he discussed his daughter’s idea of justice. His daughter reached a certain age where she could decide what justice meant to her, and when she could apply it - so she therefore was able to argue that her father was being unjust in not allowing her to do a certain something. If Professor Davis’s daughter’s idea of what is just and what is not was incorrect, she would have to realize that at some point due to this argument. This therefore shows that before enlightenment comes the realization that one’s beliefs do not match reality. Now, seeing that Plato’s allegory of the cave can adequately fit into the modern day world, it will be much easier to understand this idea of preexisting knowledge. Where did that child’s...
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...Google: What They Say and What They Do Brumbaugh, Robert Blaine COM 530 June 11, 2012 Bob Kolber Abstract This paper is about the culture and communication methods of Google. It will start with an explanation of Google’s organizational culture and values. The following section will explain the role of communication within the organization. Including how communication is affected by the organization’s culture, and the role it plays in perception of the culture. The final sections will talk about misalignments between espoused and enacted values. Google’s Culture and Values “It’s really the people that make Google the kind of company it is.” ("Our Culture", n.d.). The people who work at Google are smart, determined, and from various parts of the world. The company hires people based more on their ability instead of their experience. They also maintain an open culture that allows for communication with everyone else in the company. “Googlers” as they call themselves, can even ask questions directly to Larry Page, the CEO of Google. The company values the input and diversity of its employees. It’s the input and diversity that fuels the innovation that the company is known for. Communication and Culture “One of the key reasons for Google's success is a belief that good ideas can, and should, come from anywhere.” (Mayer, 2005). Google supports an all channel style of communication, meaning that everyone can talk to everyone else. This open...
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...Summary of Where Good Ideas Come From Christian Myers October 4, 2014 Mr. Vigneron GS1145 I have wondered where people come up with these creative ideas to make our lives easier or more enjoyable so to say. Like George Washington Carver creating peanut butter or the Wright Brothers creating the first airplane over a century, which has been continuously used for numerous of things. According to Steven Johnson there are reoccurring patterns for coming up with these good ideas. He talks about how we want be more creative, come up with better ideas. Johnson took a picture of the first coffee shop in England and explains how they came up with the Enlightenment Party. Then Johnson explains the environments of the “Eureka Moments; flash, stroke, epiphany, eureka, and light bulb” (johnson, 2010). Which doesn’t happen immediately. It is called the slow hunch, which is a long-term idea that develops in a year or two or several years from now. Basically, “The idea has to incubate to form for that eureka moment” (johnson, 2010). However, if you have half a hunch you could find more people with the other half and they combined together called a “Collision which allows hundreds of people to connect with others hunches” (johnson, 2010). Johnson expounds the liquid network, which is “New network of neutrons firing in sync in your brain, new configuration that have not formed before” (johnson, 2010). Johnson reveals how Kevin Dunbar traveled around to these different science lab and...
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