12.19.07

Never stop thinking - innovation at work.

Posted in Work at 9:50 pm by JohnB

I attended a workshop/session thing a little while ago entitled simply “Innovation”. I put my name against it simply because I have a fascination with all things new and shiny. It could be called being a big kid, but I’ll live with that! J
The surprise of the morning was that the session was simply about innovation, what it is, where is comes from and how some people are seem as innovators; this all explained through the medium of Art, from the Dutch masters of the 16th/17th century through the likes of Pollock and on to the pop art and graphics driven productions of today.
Now I’m no big art fan, I can appreciate a nice picture as much as the next life-form but that’s always been it for me. But knowing a little about the artists and the rationale behind some of the work I began to understand things a little more. And I also totally ‘Got’ the message of the session. I made a few notes, as one does, and the one which has stuck with me was this (I’m quoting it, but it’s mine.. you can use it but it started here.. OK! )

“An epiphany is the crystalisation of prior concepts and experience into a single idea.” - John Brown 2007

The morning also gave me a sort of structure from which to hang my own thought processes and I now understand a little more about the way my mind works. I’ve been called an innovator in the past and pretty much accepted it as a sort of compliment, or at least a reasonably positive comment on what I was doing, but now I know what it actually means in a referable way, I’m actually very flattered that people have seen me in this light.. long may it continue!

- J.

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