Other Interests: pursuing your passion

Video diversions

These 2 videos will entertain you for a few moments:

The 5 Browns playing Flight of the Bumblebee (via Denise Howell) and
Men in Coats (younger audience will appreciate them too).

Grug: now animated

My friends Bob and Leigh have completed a clay animation of the classic children's story Grug.

Now they're looking for a distributor and funding to do the whole series.

Anyone interested? They deserve some support.

Book Review: The Conceptual Age

In A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, author Daniel Pink argues that "the scales are tipping away from what it used to take for people to get ahead—logical, linear, left-brain, and spreadsheet-type abilities—in favor of abilities like artistry, empathy, and big-picture thinking, which are becoming more valuable."

This interview from Management Consulting News gives an insight:

"MCNews: The professional services business has traditionally been left-brained. What advice would you give professional services providers so their practices thrive in the conceptual age?
Pink: Well, they need to think through the same imperatives: Are you doing something that someone overseas can’t do cheaper, or that a computer can’t do  faster? Does what you do satisfy some of the spiritual, emotional, or esthetic needs of our society?"

Perhaps all he's saying is that globalisation means that businesses need to be innovative, and to be innovative you need to be creative. But you need the skills as a base.

via Guerilla Consulting