Author Archives: Julie Anixter
Adults, Would-Be Adults and Kids Weigh In… First, my favorite pot shot from the non-adult, the most adolescent of journalistic voices, The New York Post… “Tanks Alot” with a picture of our president. Blaming someone else, in this case BAM as they punk-call him, versus being accountable. The very definition of non-adulthood. “People are going to feel less rich and that will make them hold back on spending, which will be a further blow to the economy.” Beth Ann Bovino, Senior U.S. Economist, Standard & Poors, Wall Street Journal, 8-9-11 “I keep waiting for one wealthy, well-known figure to stand up and publicly say that he or she is willing to pay more in taxes as part of the shared sacrafice necessary to gain control of the country’s deficit. I know there are wealthy people who’ve had that thought — not just liberals like Warren Buffett, but old-fashioned, rocked-ribb …
What do you do AFTER you invent TED? Steven Heller, another of my Go-To Cultural Cull-Masters delivers the news about Richard Saul Wurman here. Don’t miss an article (3,000+) – Subscribe to our RSS feed and join our Innovation Excellence group! Julie Anixter is Chief Innovation Officer at Maga Design and a Founder of Innovation Excellence.
Innovation has many mothers. Over the past few decades, designers have been steadily moving onto the world stage as central figures, arbiters and midwives, in the birth of new innovations. Both inside and outside the corporate process, as seen regularly on the uber-TED channel, and of course (bow, scrape) through the “more money than the US Government” DNA of Steve Jobs and i-Life, the inseparability of design and innovation has mainlined into our collective consciousness. There is no better place to feel the heat and experience the visceral force of design thinking in action then the Design Matters interviews, the internet radio show archives of Debbie Millman, herself a pioneer in designer-led innovation as author, AIGA President, Sterling Design leader and industry energizer. When you need a source of inspiration. We’re just saying…Go Debbie. Don’t miss an article (3,000+) – Subscribe to our RSS feed and join our Innovation …
JUST when I was feeling completely physically and spiritually exhausted by the dumb and dumber Debt debate….this popped onto the screen of my i-phone and I was momentarily renewed by the automatic smile inside that this voice so often provokes: The “2Rs”: Relentless. Resilient. All you need to know?? 15 hours ago tom_peters and then… In the Resilience. Grant, looks calmly from his pipe, to a reeling Sherman after 1st day rout of Union at Vicksberg: “Lick ‘em tomorrow.” (He did.) 16 hours ago tom_peters followed by RESILIENCE is hire-able. (Look for it.) RESILIENCE is trainable; be explicit. RESILIENCE is promotable. RESILIENCE these days = Strategy. 19 hours ago tom_peters In these three tweets we get a slice of the relentlessly resilient mind of Tom Peters. Like the rings of a tree they show us the natural history, the whole shooting match at a glance, and why he is a … Continue reading
Charming Princeton drop out Seth Prietbatsch gives us a quick lesson in game dynamics filled with user-friendly references (Happy Hour!) that can nudge us over to this compelling view of life, including the most prosaic, everyday tasks, as…a GAME. Which means, from an Innovation Excellence/Build Capability perspective that we better be cranking on that GAME LAYER if we want to make our products, services and experiences BETTER. And, yes, as one of the technocrati I just shared this with reminded me…the video is a whole year old (Thanks Melissa!) Don’t care. It’s as relevant (aka still missing) to every business I know as it was back in July 2010.
When I finally met Clayton Christensen last year, at the Tribeca Film Festival’s first annual Disruptive Innovation Awards, I was struck by how much he loves the world, and the way his work allows him to move through it, continuously learning and disrupting. Tell the truth. Isn’t that why most of us work in innovation. In this talk, “Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education” according to fellow author Jim Collins Christensen. Think of this as a crash course in the business of learning from the uber disrupter and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution. According to recent studies in neuroscience, the way we learn doesn’t always match up with the way we are taught. If we hope to stay competitive-academically, economically, and technologically-we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence, reevaluate our educational system, and reinvigorate our commitment to learning. In other words, … Continue reading
If we study history, we probably know what to do to get out of this economic morass. And the Dow’s recent rebound notwithstanding it isn’t just to feel good about compromising on taxes. It is to take the high ground and long road of investing in innovation. Listening to Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times and Robert Hormats, of the US State Department, they went on to repeat and repeat and repeat their acknowledgment of the many forms of Innovation as “the answer” as they talked today about the economy ahead on the January 2 Wall Street Journal Report. It would thrill me to no end to hear these very grounded guys down on bended knee sending a love letter to Innovation writ large. If, that is, I didn’t know just how hard it is to actually pull off and create innovation. …
