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I love it when someone takes a widely accepted form and adds a simple concept to come up with a really great idea. What’s really great about this ides is that it’s also a catalyst for change.

Let’s take a look at Dice for Change©

Dice for Change

Many of us strive to be a better person. To take better care of ourselves, to be more kind to one another or to improve the world we live in.

These three dice are designed to help you start and act on what you care about. Simply roll the dice to introduce new routines into your life in a playful way and notice how even small and simple actions have a greater positive effect on life.

DiceForChange is a concept by Creative Heroes, a creation studio in the Netherlands.

If interested DiceForChange can be purchased from Amazon.com

So why is this product so good?

No barrier to use:

Dice are a well known form and have been in our culture for thousands of years. This means that we don’t need to be trained on how to use them. They fit nicely in our hands – very tactile.  They require no training and no skill.

Easy to understand:

It’s a well used cliché but a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case a very simple picture or icon communicates a broad concept and action.

The power of incremental change:

There are a lot of great ideas out there. A many require a grand vision and a real leap of faith to take us beyond the current realities. And others… well others like the Dice for Change allow us to take small incremental each day.

Incremental changes quietly and gently alters our thinking, our altitudes, and eventually our behavior. Packaging the concepts for change into a form of game puts it within everyone’s reach.

If interested DiceForChange can be purchased from Amazon.com


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An Archive for Ideas

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I regularly listen to the Long Now seminars about long term thinking. They are a real antidote to our normal to our normal day to day thinking which mostly focuses on immediate and short term thinking. If you’ve not listened to one before I really recommend that you take a look.

Long Now FoundationThe most recent seminar featured Brewster Kahle founder and librarian of the storied Internet Archive.

All knowledge, to all people, for all time, for free

Universal access to all knowledge, Kahle declared, will be one of humanity’s greatest achievements. We are already well on the way. “We’re building the Library of Alexandria, version 2. We can one-up the Greeks!”

The achievements of the Internet Archive are already quite outstanding:

  • The Web – 150 Billion web pages
  • Texts – 3,125,761 books and documents
  • Audio – 1,047,238 recordings
  • Moving Images – 595,903 movies
  • e Music Archive – 95,367 concerts

That got me thinking:

What about an Archive of Ideas?

There are many stories of ideas that were before their time – think Leonardo da Vinci

What about all the ideas for products and services that started of as one thing and ended up as something completely different – think Facebook.

Then there’s all the ideas that are just plan dumb – for now!

So how would an archive for ideas work?

  • would you embargo ideas until you knew they would work?
  • would putting your ideas “out there” motivate you to action?
  • Would putting your ideas “out there” stimulate a discussion and help them evolve faster?
  • Are we strong enough to accept other people’s critique?

Ideas are partially formed concepts, while texts, pictures, moving pictures, and audio file from the Internet Archive are fully formed and edited. Do we have the courage to share our thinking before it’s fully formed?



 

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the Perfect Brainstorm?

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Some interesting insights into the rising demand for innovation practitioners from the New York Times article

Jump, Ideo and Kotter International, are companies with offices and payrolls. But many are solo practitioners, brains for hire who lecture at corporations or consult with them regularly. Each has a catechism and a theory about why good ideas can be so hard to come by and what can be done to remedy the situation.

I particularly like this model by Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and co-author of “The Other Side of Innovation:

In Box 1, he puts everything a company now does to manage and improve performance.

Box 2 is labeled “selectively forgetting the past,” his way of urging clients to avoid fighting competitors and following trends that are no longer relevant.

Box 3 is strategic thinking about the future.

“Companies spend all of their time in Box 1, and think they are doing strategy,” he says. “But strategy is really about Box 2 and 3 — the challenge to create the future that will exist in 2020″.

via In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm – NYTimes.com.

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