Innovation Insights
From the desk of Braden Kelley
May, 2009 - Vol 3, Issue 3
In This Issue
Instinctual Innovation vs. Intellectual Innovation
Top Tweets from Twitter
Creativity vs. Literacy
incentive2innovate Conference Wrapup
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I trust this newsletter finds you happily enjoying the summer sunshine and reinvigorated prospects.
 
I've recently returned from the incentive2innovate Conference at the United Nations where the speakers included Reid Hoffman, Arianna Huffington, Don Tapscott, and more. I've posted several video interviews and blog entries highlighting insights from the event.
 
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We've published a Charitable Innovation white paper as part of this year's community outreach. We encourage you to share this with any charity you're involved with.
  
I hope you enjoy the content we have selected this month.
Instinctual Innovation vs. Intellectual Innovation
 
Instinctual Innovation versus Intellectual Innovation
If so many great ideas come to us when our active mind is elsewhere, then why is such little attention paid to this source of innovation.

A lot has been written about creativity and the brain, left brain vs. right brain thinking, and how often the brain just needs to get out of its own way for creativity to occur as there is no single creative area of the brain.
 
 
Top Tweets from @innovate on Twitter
 
Top Tweets from @Innovate on TwitterTweet #1 - Interested in Continuous Innovation? - http://ow.ly/6W7e
Tweet #2 - Seth Godin on the Tribes We Lead - http://ow.ly/eTFQ
Tweet #3
- Interview with "Rethink" author - http://ow.ly/eTlr
Tweet #4 - Twitter in the Classroom - http://ow.ly/eTK2
 
 
Creativity vs. Literacy
 
Sir Ken Robinson - Creativity versus Literacy
I came across this video of Sir Ken Robinson speaking about how schools kill creativity.

He contends that more emphasis should be placed on teaching creativity in schools, and that teaching creativity should be as important as teaching literacy. Here are some of his other key thoughts and insights:

The great thing about children is that if they don't know, at least they'll have a go - "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original." - Sir Ken Robinson

Unfortunately, by the time we become adults, most of us lose this capacity.
 
 
incentive2innovate Conference Wrapup
 
incentive2innovate Conference WrapupI just returned from a great experience at the incentive2innovate conference at the United Nations in New York City. Hosting the conference at the UN seemed appropriate given that it was a gathering of people who are trying to change the world. The percentage of people representing non-profits and social capitalist organizations was much higher than I expected, and it made for fascinating discussions. The conference was hosted in a gigantic conference room at the United Nations where UN delegates recently discussed the current economic crisis and debated potential solutions. I had the opportunity to record the following video interviews to share with you:
 
Dean Kamen - Segway Inventor, Founder of DEKA Research and FIRST
Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin - Innocentive Founder and CEO
Charlie Brown - Executive Director of Ashoka's Changemakers
Neil Blakesley - VP, Strategy Marketing and Propositions for BT Americas
 
 
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All the best,
Braden Kelley
Chief Innovation Officer
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