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14 Oct 09

Technology Review: Blogs: Predictably Irrational: A Fictional historic view of the future

  • this painful and expensive lesson caused businesses and policy makers to recognize three main lessons: 1) human beings have many irrational tendencies, fallibilities, and quirks; 2) we often have bad intuitions and a limited understanding of our irrational tendencies and; 3) if we want to create effective policies we shouldn’t rely on our intuitions for finding recommendations nor on the assumption that people behave rationally; instead, we should ground our recommendations in how people actually behave.
  • After a few years spent watching in awe as business productivity improved,  government policymakers followed suit by implementing experiments with the Education-Forward Initiative (formerly No Child Left Behind). These experiments showed that basing teachers’ salaries on student performances had minor short-term benefits and caused substantial long-term damage on teacher and student motivation; that creating interest in education was more important than grades; and that shifting the curriculum focus from calculus to statistics and probability had a wonderful impact on students.
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12 Oct 09

Innovation: The psychology of Google Wave - tech - 09 October 2009 - New Scientist

  • "We need to ask what opportunity Wave allows people to express themselves and to understand what other people mean when they contribute a message to a conversation,"
  • The creators of Wave pitch it as "what email would look like if it were invented today"
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Innovation = Imagination + Integration

“If you don’t have highly creative people in positions of real authority, you won’t get innovation,”

www.sdnn.com/...vation-imagination-integration - Preview

innovation leadership

  • “If you don’t have highly creative people in positions of real authority, you won’t get innovation,”
  • Their main argument? That creative people “typically imagine a whole picture and see every innovation as a part that has to fit that whole. They are less concerned with perfecting any one component than with creating a brand statement that enhances the entire customer experience.”
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