tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137817442024-02-08T02:03:29.860-08:00:: Serial Innovation ::Its when the mind is at rest that the thoughts flow!Ash Parikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005749519949921745noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13781744.post-16331818710447637792011-06-26T16:01:00.000-07:002011-07-04T13:22:05.624-07:00It's Not About Innovation - It's About Serial Innovation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDTYvm_cwZI/ThIfHGk5fiI/AAAAAAAALIA/RVeE0FVCA84/s1600/24+Los+Cabos+391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GDTYvm_cwZI/ThIfHGk5fiI/AAAAAAAALIA/RVeE0FVCA84/s320/24+Los+Cabos+391.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: white;">The year is 2011 and it is my firm belief that today's economic conditions call for <span style="font-style: italic;">serial innovation</span>. What I am talking about is not just about one or two or a hundred wonderful ideas - we have that NOW. It is about keeping those ideas flowing - like riding those waves in an ocean - fall down to try again, and again, and again. Where one ends, the others begins. We cannot and should not stop at one brilliant idea, or two - we need<span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">these WAVES!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>We need <span style="font-style: italic;">serial innovation.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Innovation occurs at the grass roots, within individuals, within the four walls of small businesses. However, industry consolidation has either consumed or devoured small businesses, leaving a void that is not getting any help from a sputtering economy!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Have we </span><span style="font-family: arial;">just been <span style="font-weight: bold;">checkmated</span>?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">If you've taken the </span></span><a href="http://www.testyourcreativity.com/" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">Art Institutes</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: white;">' Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test, you have definitely read this statement<span style="font-style: italic;"> - </span></span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span class="extfont1" style="font-style: italic;">"Being creative or artistic doesn’t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world." </span></span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: arial;">How right they are.<br />
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However, to get to this creative state of mind, it needs to start with the individual. Formal education and industry experience can take us just that far. There are other frontiers that we need to transcend before each one of us can become an innovation factory.<br />
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As Deepak Chopra says, </span><a href="http://twitter.com/DeepakChopra/status/21167760405"><span class="status-body" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="entry-content" style="color: white;">"Love stillness and imagination are the soul of genius."</span></span></a><span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-family: arial;">There is a lot happening around us, every day, with every passing minute. Imagination alone can get lost in all the confusion. We need a way to channel it. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">We need to still the mind first. And this is not easy! </span></span>Ash Parikhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02005749519949921745noreply@blogger.com0