Here's my latest column for BusinessWeek Online. On happiness.
How does that saying go? If you look like your column photo, you're too ill to write?
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Principles for Innovating
- 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world
- 2: See and hear with the mind of a child
- 3: Always ask: "How do we want people to feel after they experience this?"
- 4: Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.
- 5: Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything.
- 6: Live life at the intersection
- 7: Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation
- 8: Most new ideas aren't
- 9: Killing good ideas is a good idea
- 10: Baby steps often lead to big leaps
- 11: Everyone needs time to innovate
- 12: Instead of managing, try cultivating
- 13: Do everything right, and you'll still fail
- 14: Failure sucks, but instructs
- 15: Celebrate errors of commission. Stamp out errors of omission.
- 16: Grok the gestalt of teams
- 17. It's not the years, it's the mileage
- 18: Learn to orbit the hairball
- 19: Have a point of view
- 20: Be remarkable
Diego
I read your Business Week column, and fully agree. You might be interested in this: www.eightprinciples.com - it's a short flash video on The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun, created in part as a response to wondering how to get innovation/creativity/happiness/purpose into organizations.
It might also connect wtih your "create infectious actions" piece - the movie's had a great viral life (and my own personal mission is 'to infect a billion people with the possibility virus')
Warm wishes,
Michael
Posted by: Michael Bungay Stanier | 11 March 2006 at 03:32 AM
I really liked your article, especially your 'day a week refrence' I plan on using that myself now, I think it could really open some doors. Thanks again!
Eve
Posted by: Eve | 15 May 2006 at 08:23 AM