Loving the Alien
“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” – Japanese proverb “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Often attributed to Oscar Wilde...
Welcome to our first Focal Point: Diversity & Divergency
This article is a pretty historic one for Open for Ideas. For a start, it’s the 100th article we’ve published. That’s a big deal...
Creativity is squashed when people don’t feel valued
This week’s Silicon Beach interview is with Benita Motofska, a global expert on the sharing economy. I wanted to talk to her about how to...
Work is Important, Play is Vital
“Man’s maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Social gatherings would be much more...
Becoming an Insight Time Lord
In the fourth part of John’s series on A Beginner’s Guide to Human Insight, he looks at the importance of considering the past, the...
Great employees are curious and explore things in their own time
Can you believe we’re still publishing these Silicon Beach interviews? And there’s still a few more to come. That was a busy couple of...
And while we’re smashing up those fricken’ lightbulbs
Aran really went off on one yesterday with his trashing of the lightbulb cliché. And quite rightly. So I thought I would weigh-in behind...
A well-deserved kick in the symbolics
The incandescent lightbulb is being phased out across the world to make way for newer, more efficient forms of lighting. It’s about time the...
The 4-step Remix Method for getting ideas
Last week we showed Kirby Ferguson’s brilliant TED talk based on his brilliant documentary series. Like us folks at Open for Ideas, he appears to...
Don’t make it complicated. Strategy is just having a plan.
We’re continuing our series of Silicon Beach interviews today with a chat about strategy. And I can’t think of anyone better to talk about...