• Ben Shaffer: Innovation Means Building a Safe Space for Failure – 99U

  Really fab talk in incubating, instigating, and building, building, building — to innovate.

  tags: innovation failure #MustRead #CohortRead 99U

• John Maeda: Fall in Love with Technology through Great Design – 99U

  John Maeda talks of Paul Rand through 4 questions. Pivots to hope and his new life in venture capital and culture shaping at Ebay. His visuals of Venture made me think of the current work with iDiploma and iProject – how to guide the learners through the start-ups without overly privileging the “intended outcomes” (that cannot all be foreseen or measured). He compares “start-ups” and “end-ups” in brilliant ways, and got me reflecting on how I’ve worked for/with both. Maeda concludes with powerful lessons on leadership.

  tags: design maeda venture leadership iDiploma #MustRead #CohortRead

• is tech making your mind “lopsided”?

  “Should schools be mirrors of society, or should they be places apart?”

  HT @CannonBall31

  tags: Technology tech balance #mustread

  • Should schools be mirrors of society, or should they be places apart?

• Discovering Innovation — Indiana Jones Style

  Four lessons on innovation taught through the lens of Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark.

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: innovation #MustRead #CohortRead

  • if you’re looking to drive innovation in your organization, you have to take action and set up a system that supports it.
  • Failure is also how many innovations happen.
  • Innovation is about creativity, but that creativity also needs to fill a market need. If you can’t use, sell, or give away your innovations, they’re not actually innovations.
  • Confining your innovations to a small skunkworks team working in a windowless lab in sub-basement C will produce innovations, but it won’t foster a culture of innovation throughout your organization.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.