Innovation: The Who's Where's and How's

In the pursuit of a semi-intellectual discussion on Innovation and the perceived value of the same with the current generation of CEO's , a question was posited about the new generation of CEO's and their ability to absorb and retain new innovation theories. Further, the specific question was asked: will the increased education make them more receptive to these ideas? (paraphrased). My respond was the following (and it is something that I have noted before): It is not about more education at all. This is a fallacy; we know this now more than we ever wished. Witness the havoc - on a global scale - caused by the highly educated Wall Street crowd with their new MBA's from brilliant educational institutions like Wharton, Harvard, etc... There is a difference between being "educated" and "cultured." What we need is more cultured facilitators (we need to stop calling them leaders, because if you believe in the power of human creativity to innovate, then wh...

"They all work for me” he said.. In my world a slice of life is an occasion where ones soul is nurtured and enriched with new insights and discoveries. It should be the task of all of us to find meaning on those small moments that to most go unnoticed and un-contemplated. This is the stuff of new learning’s and insights. Here is an idea: what if life is nothing but a sequence of new beginnings, all of them motivated by new learning’s? My latest slice of life episode was a conversation I had with a taxi driver on the way to the airport. His name was Farooq and he had very interesting life lessons distilled from a difficult life on the road. You see, his philosophy was that all people around him, all of us humans going about our life movements, those of us that interact with him and his taxi. All of us, doing the mundane things of existence, all of us work for him. He went to explain that by these interactions and by his positive and non-judgmental reactions to them he is facilitati...