thoughts from session 10 – Daniel H Pink

It is important that you do what you were intrinsically made to do and his biggest mistake … Law school … why did you do that? – Parents

o Go to school… get good grades … college … get a degree/job with a bit of prestige

· Abilities that mattered most were … Engineers / Doctors / Accountant / Lawyer abilities

· Brain metaphor – of the economy

o Left and right hemisphere

o Left hemisphere mattered most and still 100% necessary, BUT no longer sufficient

o Right – artist, big thinking

· Tilt from left brain thinking to right brain thinking – not a theory, truth is organisations need

· Effect – Scales are tilting towards right

o Abundance, Asia, Automation

o Abundance:

Baby boomers … 100 baby boomers turning 60 every 18 minutes, how do I live my best life?

o Asia:

· $65k in US = in India $15K per year

· Off-shore suppliers = Overhyped in short term but underhyped in the long term

o Automation – SARS online tax

· Can some one overseas do it cheaper

· Routine

· Need high concept and high

o Need novelty and nuance (not routine and right answers)

· 6 abilities that matter most

o Design … not a function

· Literate in design

· Eg: GM in the art and entertainment business (mobile sculptor)

· Eg: CEO Proctor & Gamble (Powder for waching machine) … Its all design

· MFA is new MBA

o Story

· 14 year old girl in Africa vs Head librarian at Cambridge

· Story … differentiation in a crowded market place

· Differentiator in a market place

· Cordless phone verus Wine story

o Symphony

· Not always focus focus focus

· Ability to combine the big picture into something useful

· Learn how to draw

· Seeing things differently

o Empathy

· You can’t outsource and automate it

· JSPE (Empathy index) Higher empathy saves money and gets people better qucker

o Play

· Sense of humor (games – video games)

· Laughter club … good for you psychology

o Meaning

· Meaning is moving to the centre of successful business

· A business cannot live in order to make profits

· Improve everyone on the planet

· Best companies are Not Only for profit companies

Backups &%#$%@^

Well I had a whole bunch of problems with my laptop this week so I thought it would be a good idea to reinstall Windows …. not. Of course the backups all run smoothly and you think that everything is included when you do run the backup …. not!

I realised after reinstalling everything that my ‘OneNote’ notes that I took in class for my SDC were all gone! The vids’ that I downloaded from my classmates and everything I had done up to that point had vanished. Oh well. At least I have my blog posts of the interesting points that we discussed in class.

I now have to try to remember all the ‘concepts’ for my journal that I had logged in an excel spreadsheet.

I guess its all good because now I know that in future I will double check that EVERYTHING is backed up and also I get to go through these notes to pick out my key learnings.

thoughts from session 1

what is creativity?

Habits; Process; Structure; Inspiration; Doing; Dreaming; Pattern

What are the drivers, outcomes, relationships between habits and creativity. What habits are needed to increase creativity? Passion

Questions around Habits and Creativity:

Creativity depends on structure?

Is a habit a driver of creativity?

Does creativity have to have a relevance or purpose?

What are the best habits and how do you find your medium (master your medium)?

Conceptual

Is creativity about action

There are complex problems in this world and we need to think of different ways to solve the complex problems?

Need to journal …

TED: Ben Zander

Capacity of the leader to have 100% commitment and belief that he can take the ppl with him.

Stop thinking about the small steps … need to look at the whole vision.

Who am I being that my children’s eyes are or not shining?

Authors:

Twyla Tharp; Richard Florida; Julia Cameron – “The Artists Way”

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This blog site is dedicated to uploading my thoughts on the Strategy, Design & Creativity elective that I am completing as part of my MBA at UCT.