Why Innovators Hate M.B.A.’s

Peter Thiel, Scott Cook, and Elon Musk have all spoken out about why B-school grads hurt rather than help innovation. But is it really true? Source: www.inc.com The article makes the case that it’s important to make use of both traditional management (as learned via business schools) and entrepreneurial management (as learned via innovation schools).   While uncertainty is high there is benefit to a more entrepreneurial approach that makes use of experimentation, flat organizations, networks, iteration and flexibility. See on Scoop.it – Chaos and Uncertainty

▶To all you Special Creative Snowflakes, you’re not that special

Discuss this video: http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/2dfh5v/humans_need_not_apply/ http://www.CGPGrey.com/ https://twitter.com/cgpgrey ## Robots, Etc… Source: www.youtube.com The news has been full of reports about robots and automation, and how computers are better and faster at doing many of our jobs. IBM’s Watson is assisting doctors in diagnosis, robots build our cars, Google’s self-driving cars, etc.   Daniel Pink, in his book A Whole New Mind, posits that work that demands human creativity will fair much better. His argument is that computers cannot replicate our innate ability to recognize patterns and generate novel ideas.   CGP Grey’s new video "Humans Need Not Apply" does a great…

Public arts funding: towards plan B

See on Scoop.it – Film Futures Let’s create the kind of solid public support that makes cuts to the arts politically dangerous or, even better, unthinkable Zan Chandler‘s insight: While this is directed at the arts sector, I don’t think the cultural sector in Canada is immune, given the huge amount of government funding it receives.   If Plan A is for the cultural sector to provide better evidence to government of its value and impact, the author suggests a Plan B:   • Create relationships rather than transactions with their communities• Extend their reach and improve ratings – bums…

Digital Canada 150: Wasted opportunity

See on Scoop.it – Film Futures As part of the celebrations for Canada`s upcomming 150th birthday, the Canadian federal government has released its Digital Canada 150 strategy paper, and while it`s not all bad, at the same time there is not an awful lot to recommend it. Especially considering it was four years in the making. My sense is that its… Zan Chandler‘s insight: The Digital Canada 150 strategy reminds me an awful lot of Canada’s International Audiovisual Co-production Policy. A policy document that took forever to be released, said very little that was new or forward looking, and focused…

Walking backwards into the future

Marshall McLuhan once said that “We look at the present through a rear view mirror; we walk backwards into the future.” I was reminded of this quote as I was drafting a guest blog post for the Canada Council website. The post highlights a tension I felt at both Jacob Zimmer’s Unconference on Change and the Future(s) of Toronto Performance and the Canada Council’s Inter-Arts Office’s consultations I helped to frame  – a tension between an arts organization’s reliance on the past (i.e. an organization’s past practices and performance, so-called best practices based on other organizations’ past experiences, etc) and…

Future Londoners – Nesta

See on Scoop.it – Chaos and Uncertainty Zan Chandler‘s insight: Future Londoners is a series of imaginary London residents of the future that were created as a collaboration “between Arup, Social Life, Re.Work, Commonplace, Tim Maughan and Nesta.”  The series of future Londoners was created as a way of exploring and informing the design of a smarter London. While much popular futures exploration likes to focus on technologies of the future, this work looks at the lives of future Londoners. It’s a great way of understanding the implications of future developments. This work reminds me of a foresight project I…

RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms

See on Scoop.it – Chaos and Uncertainty This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benj…   Zan Chandler‘s insight: Sir Ken Robinson makes some interesting and sometimes controversial pronouncements about the broader education system, including the so-called ADHD epidemic in the US, education systems being based on a factory production model and how children’s divergent thinking and capacity for creativity is eroded as they become more educated. If the education system we know today sprang from the enlightenment and industrial age,…

According to Andy Hines, the best foresight clients have 4 key characteristics.

See on Scoop.it – Chaos and Uncertainty This question came up in a recent discussion with a professional colleague. Despite my hesitation to engage in a “best” discussion, let’s see, and take into account the appropriate cautions that “best” is in the eye of the … Zan Chandler‘s insight: I agree wholeheartedly about these key characteristics of “best” or ideal clients. They respect you and your abilities. They have thought carefully about what they want and why. They challenge you, in a good way, by piquing your interests and inspiring you to grow in new directions. All this while continuing to…

Isaac Asimov’s 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later — in 2014

See on Scoop.it – Chaos and Uncertainty When New York City hosted The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence — assuming the world… Zan Chandler‘s insight: I’m not a fan of predictions. However, it’s interesting to see what Asimov foresaw of life in our world today. See on www.openculture.com

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