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Seeds of Innovation
Anne Durrum Robinson (anniecreate@hotmail.com)
The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas, Elaine Dundon. AMACOM - American Management Association New York, Atlanta, Brussels,
Buenos Aires, Chicago, London, Mexico City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington, D.C. 2002 (hardback)
So often we treat world-shaking (or world-saving) ideas as if they -- like certain creatures in Athenian times -- "sprang full-grown from the head of Zeusl" We act as if these beams of
brilliance have no need of our human stages of implantation, birth, early years, later years, adolescence, maturity and eventual decrepitude and possible demise. Then along comes a book titled The Seeds of Innovation, which shows plainly that if we want a bumper crop of radiant thinking,
we have to start back at the planting stage. PDF (2 pages, 81KB)
The New Meaning of Work
Trading security for independence, some workers are defining work.
Cynthia Wagner (cwagner@wfs.org)
The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Charles Handy, Harvard School Press, 2002, 233 pages
In the future, workers who drop out (or are pushed out) of lumbering, bureaucratic "elephant" organizations to become free, agile "fleas" will see periods of highly intense paid work interspersed with periods of unpaid activities that are more meaningful. So says economist Charles Handy in his autobiography, The Elephant and the Flea, a record of his life in "fleadom", where he redefined work in terms of how he spent his time and not how he got paid. PDF (2 pages, 80KB)
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