The periodic round up:
- So what is it exactly that I do for a living? – I do enterprise architecture – this is a starting point for my explanation of what THAT is. Hint … it’s not all about IT.
- The Great Devolution – It seems we have to get to within a hair’s breadth of catastrophe before we realise there’s a problem. Haque describes our current devolution as institutional failure, and leaves us on an uncharacteristically pessimistic note …
- The New Rules Of Innovation: Bottom-Up Solutions To Top-Down Problems – Another look at innovation and creativity; with some slightly off-centre ideas about how we can improve our chances of solving the “wicked” problems facing us. Major points: re-invent education to put it back in touch with the needs of this century, rather than the 19th; find a different type of capitalism to reward the productive economy; and rethinking government’s role in assisting innovation.
- How to Be Creative – Interesting article about how everyone of us can be creative – it’s a skill rather than a gift. What may be “gifts” are the techniques of creativity, but they’re not exclusive to any of us; they can be developed.
- FACE IT: We Build Cool Space Because We Don’t Know How to Build Great Managers… – A tongue-in-cheek approach to a serious topic: we continue to avoid the difficult tasks in management in favour of “cheque-book” improvements that don’t require an uncomfortable culture change. Problem is, people are starting to see through the facade …
- Are jobs obsolete? – Douglas Rushkoff suggests that, as has been happening for centuries, technology is doing away with jobs as we know them. While the current idea seems to be to let the people who lose jobs suffer, Rushkoff posits that it is time for a rethink of whether or not the idea of working for someone else still makes sense. It is after all, a relatively recent phenomenon …