Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Job
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innovation. Show all posts
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Does This Sound Like Me?
My Myers Briggs tests always result in an ENTP finding. My personality is extroverted (E) Intuitive (N) Thinking (T) and Perceiving (P).
The REAL Myers Briggs Personality Test says that makes me;
ENTP: The Mad Scientist
The ENTP, like the ENTJ, is charismatic, outgoing, and intelligent. ENTPs are often quickwitted, clever, and genial; they typically display a highly organized, rational cognitive ability which makes them natural scientists and inventors.
ENTPs are creative, complex people who seek to improve their understanding of the natural world, usually by building armored fifty-story-tall robotic monsters with iron jaws and death-ray eyes, or by creating genetically mutated plagues that spread unstoppably across the land, turning all who are contaminated into mindless zombie drones. They are less likely to want to conquer the world than to destroy it utterly, reducing it to nothing but slag and rubble--though this is often merely a side-effect of their pursuit of knowledge.
RECREATION: ENTPs enjoy recreational activities which challenge them physically and intellectually, such as water skiing and porting Linux to their iPods. They are also fond of collecting gadgets like combination cellphone/PDAs and orbiting arsenals of brain lasers, which they may port Linux to as well.
COMPATIBILITY: ENTPs and ENTJs make natural companions, as the one's unspeakable hunger for power complements the other's unspeakable hunger for knowledge. They do not generally build successful relationships with ESFJs, as ENTPs they are prone to behaving in inconveniently erratic ways, which pisses ESFJs off to no end; and because ENTPs simply do not know how to dress appropriately for formal occasions.
Famous ENTPs include Spencer Silver (the inventor of Post-It Notes), Robert Oppenheimer, and Dr. Jeckyll.
The REAL Myers Briggs Personality Test says that makes me;
ENTP: The Mad Scientist
The ENTP, like the ENTJ, is charismatic, outgoing, and intelligent. ENTPs are often quickwitted, clever, and genial; they typically display a highly organized, rational cognitive ability which makes them natural scientists and inventors.
ENTPs are creative, complex people who seek to improve their understanding of the natural world, usually by building armored fifty-story-tall robotic monsters with iron jaws and death-ray eyes, or by creating genetically mutated plagues that spread unstoppably across the land, turning all who are contaminated into mindless zombie drones. They are less likely to want to conquer the world than to destroy it utterly, reducing it to nothing but slag and rubble--though this is often merely a side-effect of their pursuit of knowledge.
RECREATION: ENTPs enjoy recreational activities which challenge them physically and intellectually, such as water skiing and porting Linux to their iPods. They are also fond of collecting gadgets like combination cellphone/PDAs and orbiting arsenals of brain lasers, which they may port Linux to as well.
COMPATIBILITY: ENTPs and ENTJs make natural companions, as the one's unspeakable hunger for power complements the other's unspeakable hunger for knowledge. They do not generally build successful relationships with ESFJs, as ENTPs they are prone to behaving in inconveniently erratic ways, which pisses ESFJs off to no end; and because ENTPs simply do not know how to dress appropriately for formal occasions.
Famous ENTPs include Spencer Silver (the inventor of Post-It Notes), Robert Oppenheimer, and Dr. Jeckyll.
Monday, July 9, 2007
A Promise
Friday, October 13th, 2006
I attended the AGM of the Alberta’s Promise organization this morning. The charity that I work with is a agency partner. The idea for this group of 500 business and nonprofit partners comes from “America’s Promise” founded by Colin Powell. “Alberta’s Promise is a movement. A passion. A spark, to inspire Albertans to direct more resources to benefit our children and youth. Alberta’s Promise helps communities, businesses, service clubs, foundations and agencies to work together to benefit our young people.”
We have benefited from the partnership and association by finding businesses that were willing to come along side us and aide us in fulfilling our mission. There have been some very interesting successes but the meeting focused on six. Everything from direct earmarked funding to donated services to corporate leveraging worked to help impacted and at-risk populations.
They launched a new campaign this week that focuses on the tagline: You only get one chance to be a kid.
But many chances to help a kid.
Alberta’s Promise invites any company, agency or municipality to apply to become an Alberta’s Promise Partner. Approval will be based upon the nature of the commitment to children and how the organization’s corporate philosophy fits with the five promises of Alberta’s Promise.
1. Providing a Healthy Start
2. Safety, Growth and Development
3. Interaction, Mentoring and Inspiration
4. Participation and Volunteering
5. Leadership and Innovation
The formation of Alberta’s Promise was announced in the government’s Throne Speech on Feb. 18, 2003 and was later introduced into the legislature as Bill One - the Premier’s Council on Alberta’s Promise Act.
Take a look at the Alberta’s Promise site and see if there are any promises that you would like to make.
I attended the AGM of the Alberta’s Promise organization this morning. The charity that I work with is a agency partner. The idea for this group of 500 business and nonprofit partners comes from “America’s Promise” founded by Colin Powell. “Alberta’s Promise is a movement. A passion. A spark, to inspire Albertans to direct more resources to benefit our children and youth. Alberta’s Promise helps communities, businesses, service clubs, foundations and agencies to work together to benefit our young people.”
We have benefited from the partnership and association by finding businesses that were willing to come along side us and aide us in fulfilling our mission. There have been some very interesting successes but the meeting focused on six. Everything from direct earmarked funding to donated services to corporate leveraging worked to help impacted and at-risk populations.
They launched a new campaign this week that focuses on the tagline: You only get one chance to be a kid.
But many chances to help a kid.
Alberta’s Promise invites any company, agency or municipality to apply to become an Alberta’s Promise Partner. Approval will be based upon the nature of the commitment to children and how the organization’s corporate philosophy fits with the five promises of Alberta’s Promise.
1. Providing a Healthy Start
2. Safety, Growth and Development
3. Interaction, Mentoring and Inspiration
4. Participation and Volunteering
5. Leadership and Innovation
The formation of Alberta’s Promise was announced in the government’s Throne Speech on Feb. 18, 2003 and was later introduced into the legislature as Bill One - the Premier’s Council on Alberta’s Promise Act.
Take a look at the Alberta’s Promise site and see if there are any promises that you would like to make.
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