Fast Company Leadership (Co.Lead) just published the third article in a 5-part series featuring elegance and the art of subtraction. This one they titled, “The Rules of Successful Skunk Works Projects,” adapted from Chapter 5 of The Laws of Subtraction. Enjoy and share HERE.
If you haven’t been watching HBO’s series, The Newsroom, you may want to skip over this post. I watched the series premiere back in June, spellbound by actor Jeff Daniels and his monologue in response to a coed asking him what made America great. He blasted her, the net of his takedown being “it isn’t (great)…but it could be.” The Newsroom is writer Aaron Sorkin’s foray into cable television dramedy. I won’t bore you with …
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There are two kinds of break. Those you make, and those you take.
Most people know that 3M’s Arthur Fry was not trying to invent the thing he invented in 1974–the Post-it Note–he was daydreaming in church. As neuroscientists now know, and was conclusively shown in 2009, it’s when our minds wander that our brains do their best work–it’s when we’re not trying to think creatively that we’re often most creative. That’s when a still mysterious process in the right hemisphere of the brain behind the right ear …
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