Data visualization at its finest – building a bridge to knowledge from information
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
Someone, somewhere once said ‘don’t confuse information with knowledge.’ Today’s world is rife with the former & not so much with the latter. At the click of a mouse anyone (with connectivity) can find out that last 3 presidents of any country, what the temperature will be this coming Saturday in any region of the […]
Tags: azri, data visualization, million voices
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: 7 stages of innovation
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on the 7 stages of innovation I learned from the Amani Institute’s Social Innovation Safari I participated in. Missed the article? Check it out here. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here.) Are you clear on what you’re passionate about? What you’re burning to resolve […]
Tags: amani institute, innovation, social innovation
What’s your key to life? And would your 5 year old self agree?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
“When I was 5 years old, my mom told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t […]
The scale of the universe by Cary Huang (a practice playground for Mountains & Carrots)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
A fun, interactive site, this website allows you to see, in multiple perspectives, the scale of the universe. Don’t forget to scroll in & out to change your perspective & click to find out more about an object. Scrolling out is like getting an automatic Mountain Life Lens™ perspective (the view from above), while zooming […]
Tags: cary huang, perspective, universe
A new twist on having a ‘bun in the oven’
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy, Training & development
What does a bun in the oven mean to you? As someone who graduated, got engaged, got married, got pregnant & gave birth without the power of the internet behind me, I find it fascinating how people are using technology to share, teach, delight, surprise & confound… For those of us in learning & development, […]
Tags: creativity, humour
Think outside the box. Where are your boundaries?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This image, from Mike Rilstone’s facebook page, is a great, visual reminder of the unwitting chains that can bind our thinking. Of the assumptions we can unknowingly make. Of perspectives that can blind instead of illuminate. What assumptions are you making that are muddying the waters, preventing a clearer picture? What boundaries are binding your […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity, perspective
The biggest threat to your creativity (a la Danielle LaPorte)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
I love this post from my good friend Danielle LaPorte. So much that I’ve reposted it below. It’s a great example of how your perspective can be refreshed, enhanced & rebooted through knowing & telling your own story. The biggest threat to your creativity… … is the fear that it’s already been done, said, created. […]
Tags: creativity, danielle laporte, innovation
Was his (now mine) a la Dave Ulrich
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This picture, from Dave Ulrich’s excellent presentation ‘Leadership and Human Resources: Trends for the future’ at the 2012 Regional Leadership and HR Convention, Institute of Human Resource Management, Nairobi in May 2012, besides making you wince if you’re the one who lost your car, is a great statement of perspective. What do you see? A […]
Tags: creativity, dave ulrich, perspective
Fishbowl toilets- now that’s creative
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
If these fishbowl toilets aren’t an attention grabber I don’t know what is. There are a variety of ways to see these tanks, from an environmental lens to a sociological one: Designed for Chinese families where space is at a premium, they’re marketed as a way to save space They use less water (the toilets […]
Tags: creativity, environmental, sociological
Out of the mouths of babes … come an entirely different perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
We have chains around our brains. These chains limit our thinking. They box us in, hold us down, reign us in. The chains often come in the form of assumptions. Assumptions we make without even knowing it. Assumptions kill creativity. Assumptions keeps us in our own dogged perspective, our own worldview. How to bust out? […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity