The Psychology Behind All That Clutter You Can't Get Rid Of
We've all got those filing cabinets or drawers filled with stuff we can't bear to throw away or look at—items that seem simultaneously useless and important. If I dug around my files, I'd find defunct credit card statements and notes from stories written nearly a decade ago. And then there are the personal items: the crusty bouquet of dried roses I've kept for more than 16 years (a relic from my first boyfriend), the giant stack of anatomy books from my yoga teaching days now gathering dust in the corner, the endless piles of birthday cards. June Saruwatari knows all about this kind of clutter. She used to hang onto old contracts and paystubs from long-gone jobs—relics of the success and money she'd once made. Saruwatari started throwing stuff away. She's since turned other people on to her ruthless purging skills. Decluttering, believes Saruwatari, isn't just about getting your desk and closet in order. What's Behind All That Clutter? There are myriad reasons we keep stuff.
The World According to TRIZ
Please, stop talking about innovation … – Skills-Universe
Organisations devote an enormous amount of energy talking about the importance of innovation. But here’s the truth: most companies can’t innovate because everyone’s job is to maintain the status quo. You and everyone else in your organisation is snowed under making sure you’re doing what your job description says you should be doing. And even if “innovation” is included as a KPI, few companies have an effective innovation process in place.This is because companies are set up to do one thing as proficiently as possible – the business they’re in. Everyone’s role is defined and structured to create the best environment for doing that one thing as efficiently as possible. Success means doing the same thing you’ve always done, maybe just a little better each time.
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What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brains
What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brainstorming? Innovation Tools 10/20/2003 Jack Hipple In the past ten years, a radical new innovation toolkit has entered the West from the former Soviet Union. Why is this? The development of TRIZ The genius of Altshuller and his successors was to recognize that the place to look for the basics of invention and new ideas was not in the brains of inventors, but where the inventions were collected and recognized -- the patent office. Altshuller categorized these inventive principles in several retrievable forms, including a contradiction table, 40 Inventive Principles, and 76 Standard Solutions. TRIZ Inventive Principles In reviewing the thousands of patents, Altshuller distinguished between incremental/routine inventions vs. truly breakthrough inventions. TRIZ Separation Principles In addition to the general problem of design or operational contradictions, there can also be contradictions within a parameter itself. Conclusion
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“Innovation teams have been reorganized, de-layered, downsized, and (increasingly) dispersed, weakening the underlying structure of many companies ’innovation efforts.” When you read through a paper on transformation through innovation, by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) at www.executiveboard.com , and it offers the conclusion quoted above: you do stop and reflect. And you should! Then you read in one of the latest McKinsey Quarterly’s articles about the global company’s challenge suggesting many issues are needed to be faced within large global organizations, you get even more of a confirmation that all is not well for innovation. So what is going wrong within innovation? Innovation’s future seems to need some wholesale changes to take place and many of our innovation leaders are facing multiple dilemmas and hard choices that can’t be ignored for much longer. The issue is “are the leaders of these organizations up to the challenges?” image credit: asunews.asu.edu
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