I work for a big corporation. As with most big companies, the corporate hierachy is pretty tall. That makes it a bit tough to create and/or maintain a culture of innovation: politics and title are usually more influential than a good idea. But blaming management for not accepting your brilliant idea is a cop-out. What [...]

We’re all connected. We have the entire sum of human genius and misery at our fingertips. Given that, I’m constantly befuddled by people who don’t at least try to understand the whole, rather than just the parts. You have to understand the context of a thing to do anything with it.  So, since this is all about [...]

Visual thinking for the day Ok, so, big corporations are… well, big. Brilliant insight, I know. Bear with me. They’re big, change-resisting, money-making machines. But, at some point they were small, nimble and entrepreneurial.  Jujitsu is a martial art based on the idea of  ”using an attacker’s energy against him, rather than directly opposing it.” At [...]