"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

Since i'm on a linking roll - here come some interesting reads on Creativity, Ideas and Innovation.

1.  Ubiquity: Why New Ideas are Both Disruptive and Necessary. Ubiquity: Why New Ideas are Both Disruptive and Necessary " Most people in organizations -- including the executive -- just want to maintain an equilibrium. They'd like to just keep going along doing tomorrow what they did yesterday. But then these Idea Practitioners come in and they disturb the equilibrium. I mean, if someone's telling you about a new idea... [elearningpost]

The concept feels just right - and i like the thought of Idea Practitioners - as opposed to 'consultants' - in nomenclature, role definitions and positioning. 

2. Again link via elearningpost - 'Happy Tales : The CEO as Storyteller - If you want to motivate your employees, tell them a story, but not just any story. A Harvard Business Review conversation with screenwriting coach Robert McKee.'

It talks about uniting an idea with an emotion and essentially, a story expresses how and why life changes - makes me think that we need some stories to show how corporate blogging can change lives in organisations !

3. The newest HBS Strategy & Innovation newsletter is out (at least in electronic form). [via Ideaflow].  Some cool articles in the trial version.

4. Here's a report on a study that says marriage tames creative genius and criminal tendencies - "CREATIVE genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says. Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, noting their age at the time when they made their greatest work. The data remarkably concur with the brutal observation made by Albert Einstein, who wrote in 1942: "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so....."  Do i detect a germ of truth here ?

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